· Community foundation
Community Foundation of Monroe County
We strive to successfully fulfill our mission by committing to the following values: stewardship, local impact, community partnership, inclusion, and legacy.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MONROE COUNTY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $1,254,721 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,475,683 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $220,962 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $89k
- $250k+1 grant · $992k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COUNTY OF MONROE | $991,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $88,568 |
| CALL FOR BACKUP | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MONROE FAMILY YMCA | $25,000 |
| MILAN AREA SCHOOLS - SYMONS PTO | $12,000 |
| ONE SHEEP MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
| MILAN SENIORS FOR HEALTHY LIVING | $11,000 |
| RIVER RAISIN CENTRE FOR THE ARTS | $10,715 |
| AIRPORT SCHOOLS | $9,950 |
| MOVING MILAN FORWARD | $9,950 |
| AID IN MILAN | $8,648 |
| ST MICHAEL PARISH | $7,590 |
| MILAN AREA SCHOOLS PTO | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MMMOVING MILAN FORWARD3× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +203% · 59% of their budget
- AIAID IN MILAN3× · 2022–2025 · $31k · revenue +24%
- WAWASHTENAW AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN2× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- ERE4E RELIEF LLCone grant, 2022 · $192k · revenue +21%
- VVARIOUSone grant, 2021 · $100k
- MCMONROE COUNTY INTERMEDIAT SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $69k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide services for senior citizens both through the center and to those with limited resources or homebound.
Our mission is to promote and enrich quality of life for older adults and those who care for them by collaboratively providing meaningful services and opportunities.
Our mission at Marinette County Elderly Services is to assist older persons in maintaining a longer, healthier, and more fulfilled life.
Provide free legal assistance to indigent and low income persons
Creating healthy communities - together
To provide services and programs that promote wellness and independence and advocate for the life with dignity for the aging population and their caregivers.
Provide rural ambulance service to several communities and provide training in the areas of safety and emergency services to ambulance service staff and the general public.
Social welfare and issue advocacy
Title iii older americans act
Providing mediation services for genesee, arenac, bay, clare, gladwin, midland, ogemaw, roscommon, and saginaw counties in michigan court cases.
With an emphasis on socio-economically disadvantaged youth and families, the Ann Arbor Community Center, Inc. (AACC) is a vital community resource that provides high quality programs, information and services to citizens in need.
Organized exclusively to plan, operate and coordinate programs, public and private, to promote and safeguard the independence, care, well-being, and security for senior citizens and elderly in oscoda county, michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milan Seniors for Healthy Living and the most unlike its peers is One Sheep Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds E4E RELIEF LLC ↗
- Who funds MOVING MILAN FORWARD ↗
- Who funds AID IN MILAN ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MONROE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds RIVER RAISIN CENTRE FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILAN SENIORS FOR HEALTHY LIVING ↗
- Who funds WASHTENAW AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds One Sheep Ministries ↗
- Who funds Monroe County Senior Legal Services ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Community Foundation of Monroe County funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.