· Community foundation
Community Foundation of St Clair County
To serve the charitable needs and enhance the quality of life in st.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 68 grants below total $2,017,445 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,540,151 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,522,706 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $164k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $699k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORT HURON MUSEUM OF ARTS AND HISTORY | $183,161 |
| ST CLAIR COUNTY | $156,534 |
| THE COMMUINITY RENAISSANCE FUND | $144,911 |
| SONS OUTREACH | $126,708 |
| RIVERBANK YOUTH THEATRE | $107,833 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ST CLAIR RIVER WATERSHED | $88,113 |
| CITY OF ST CLAIR | $84,141 |
| ATHLETIC FACTORY INC | $75,800 |
| BLUE WATER SAFE HORIZONS | $64,477 |
| ST CLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $64,239 |
| YALE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $58,011 |
| CITY OF PORT HURON | $49,399 |
| EAST CHINA CHARTER TOWNSHIP | $47,000 |
| BLUE WATER RECOVERY & OUTREACH CENTER | $38,100 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL ST MARY OF ST CLAIR COUNCIL (SOCIETY OF) | $34,624 |
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 (FY17–24, $823k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +31% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
96 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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
- RYRIVERBANK YOUTH THEATRE7× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +694% · 84% of their budget
- PHPORT HURON MUSEUM OF ARTS & HISTORY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +23% · 28% of their budget
- TCTHE COMMUNITY RENAISSANCE FUND5× · 2017–2024 · $703k · revenue +126% · 99% of their budget
Funded once
- GEGRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $101k
- ALALGONAC LIONS CLUBone grant, 2020 · $79k
- CFCAPAC FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $41k
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.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
Channels individual, member, and corporate gifts for benefit of community.
The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.
The west coast chamber exists to be a catalyst for business growth and development, a convener of leaders and influencers, and a champion for a thriving community.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Mclaren healthcare, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
Member programs/services, economic development
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Member driven organization working to achieve economy prosperity throughout the region. it's mission is to leverage every available resource within out network for the advancement of our members and the betterment of all who live in our…
Receive and Administer funds for the public welfare of the people of Huron County, Michigan
Community development
We advocate for our business community by developing opportunities and partnerships that strengthen the economic prosperity and sustainability of our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Four County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Liberty Riders Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
107 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. 107 of the 182 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 RIVERBANK YOUTH THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PORT HURON MUSEUM OF ARTS & HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY RENAISSANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds MID CITY NUTRITION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds ATHLETIC FACTORY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ST CLAIR RIVER ↗
- Who funds BLUE WATER LAND FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds SONS ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLUE WATER AREA ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE OF ST CLAIR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL ON AGING INC SERVING ST CLAIR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAFE HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF SARNIA AND PORT HURON ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FORT GRATIOT LIGHT ↗
- Who funds ST CLAIR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds PORT HURON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE BUILDERS COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds OLD NEWSBOYS ASSOCIATION OF PORT HURON MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds LITERACY AND BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds PRIME HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · United Way of St Clair County · James C Acheson Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · McLaren Port Huron · Consumers Energy Foundation · Michigan College Access Network · Michigan Health & Hospital Association Dba Mha · The Kresge Foundation · Four County Community Foundation · Center for Technology and Civic Life · Michigan Health Endowment Fund
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 St Clair 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.