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Community Foundation of St Clair County

To serve the charitable needs and enhance the quality of life in st.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$183k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$6.4MRecreation & Sports$4.3MEducation$2.9MHuman Services$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.2MYouth Development$1.1MPhilanthropy$950kHealth$791kOther$0
02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 68 grants below total $2,017,445, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,540,151 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,522,706 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $164k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $699k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
$13,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$106M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMPREHENSIVE YOUTH SERVICES: $28k → 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $56k → 13%ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST MARY COUNCIL: $51k → 13%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $45k → 13%ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST MARY COUNCIL OF ST CLAIR: $31k → 13%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $30k → 13%ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST MARY COUNCIL: $22k → 13%KIDS IN DISTRESS SERVICES: $11k → 13%KIDS IN DISTRESS SERVICES: $11k → 13%KIDS IN DISTRESS SERVICES: $10k → 13%KIDS IN DISTRESS SERVICES: $9k → 13%KIDS IN DISTRESS SERVICES: $8k → 13%KIDS IN DISTRESS SERVICES: $8k → 13%REVEREND SIMEON'S COMMUNITY SERVICE FUND: $13k → 13%BLUE WATER SAFE HORIZONS: $64k → 13%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $55k → 13%BLUE WATER ALLIES: $40k → 13%ST VINCENT DEPAUL ST MARY OF ST CLAIR COUNCIL (SOCIETY OF): $35k → 13%BRIDGE BUILDERS COUNSELING INC: $29k → 13%BLUE WATER SAFE HORIZONS: $28k → 13%BLUE WATER SAFE HORIZONS: $26k → 13%BRIDGE BUILDERS COUNSELING INC: $25k → 13%BRIDGE BUILDERS COUNSELING INC: $22k → 13%THE HARBOR: $21k → 13%BLUE WATER SAFE HORIZONS: $19k → 13%BLUE WATER SAFE HORIZONS: $19k → 13%BLUE WATER ALLIES: $19k → 13%BLUE WATER SAFE HORIZONS: $16k → 13%BLUE WATER SAFE HORIZONS: $16k → 13%BLUE WATER SAFE HORIZONS: $15k → 13%FRIENDS OF THE FORT GRATIOT LIGHT: $15k → 13%BRIDGE BUILDERS COUNSELING INC: $14k → 13%COMPREHENSIVE YOUTH SERVICES: $7k → 13%THE HARBOR: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 96 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

96
70

Total granted

$21M
$905k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-1%

Still filing today

60%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RY
    RIVERBANK YOUTH THEATRE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +694% · 84% of their budget
  • PH
    PORT HURON MUSEUM OF ARTS & HISTORY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +23% · 28% of their budget
  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY RENAISSANCE FUND
    5× · 2017–2024 · $703k · revenue +126% · 99% of their budget

Funded once

  • GE
    GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $101k
  • AL
    ALGONAC LIONS CLUB
    one grant, 2020 · $79k
  • CF
    CAPAC FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
    one grant, 2017 · $41k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce

To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.

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2
Michigan West Coast Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Channels individual, member, and corporate gifts for benefit of community.

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3
Macomb County Chamber of Commerce

The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.

Unclassified
4
Michigan West Coast Chamber of Commerce

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.

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5
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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6
Mclaren Port Huron

Mclaren healthcare, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
7
Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce

Member programs/services, economic development

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8
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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9
Southwest Michigan Regional Chamber of Commerce

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…

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10
Huron County Community Foundation

Receive and Administer funds for the public welfare of the people of Huron County, Michigan

Philanthropy
11
Delta County Economic Development Alliance

Community development

Community Improvement
12
St Charles Chamber of Commerce

We advocate for our business community by developing opportunities and partnerships that strengthen the economic prosperity and sustainability of our region.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Four County Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

21
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/107
Grantees still filing
56/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF PORT HURON: $2,468,413 · OtherCITY OF PORT HURONCITY OF ST CLAIR: $1,241,031 · OtherCITY OF ST CLAIREAST CHINA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1,029,453 · OtherEAST CHINA SCHOOL DISTRICTST CLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1,010,123 · OtherST CLAIR COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGECITY OF MARYSVILLE: $741,533 · OtherCITY OF MARYSVILLEST CLAIR COUNTY: $522,552 · OtherCITY OF MARINE CITY: $503,490 · OtherMID CITY NUTRITION PROGRAM: $489,187 · Other+117 more: $5,409,157 · Other+117 moreRIVERBANK YOUTH THEATRE: $2,929,664 · Arts & CultureRIVERBANK YOUTH THEATR…PORT HURON MUSEUM OF ARTS & HISTORY: $1,078,604 · Arts & CulturePORT HURON MUSEUM OF A…+10 more: $428,778 · Arts & Culture+10 moreTHE COMMUNITY RENAISSANCE FUND: $702,742 · Community ImprovementST CLAIR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $157,000 · Community ImprovementBLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION: $119,589 · Community ImprovementTHE MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $81,000 · Community Improvement+5 more: $54,500 · Community ImprovementSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT: $324,912 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZONS: $203,337 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE FORT GRATIOT LIGHT: $159,706 · Human ServicesBRIDGE BUILDERS COUNSELING INC: $121,730 · Human ServicesCOMPREHENSIVE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $60,786 · Human ServicesBLUE WATER ALLIES: $58,977 · Human ServicesKIDS IN DISTRESS SERVICES INC: $57,239 · Human Services+1 more: $12,792 · Human ServicesATHLETIC FACTORY INC: $423,818 · Youth DevelopmentSONS: $273,462 · Youth DevelopmentLITERACY AND BEYOND INC: $109,999 · Youth DevelopmentA BEAUTIFUL ME INC: $60,325 · Youth Development+2 more: $37,035 · Youth DevelopmentBLUE WATER LAND FUND INC: $392,280 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY: $123,910 · PhilanthropyALGONAC LIONS CHARITIES INC: $77,369 · PhilanthropyFOUR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $36,420 · Philanthropy+2 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyPRIME HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $107,620 · HealthBWROC INC: $85,632 · HealthBeaumont Health: $75,357 · HealthBLUE WATER PREGNANCY CARE CENTER DBA SPERO CENTER: $67,222 · HealthVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION HEALTH SERVICES: $66,907 · HealthHUNTER HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC: $64,105 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION: $58,420 · HealthTRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN: $28,789 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $23,470 · Health+7 more: $42,566 · Health
Other$13,414,939Arts & Culture$4,437,046Community Improvement$1,114,831Human Services$999,479Youth Development$904,639Philanthropy$654,979Health$620,088

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIVERBANK YOUTH THEATRE: $2,929,664 over 7y, 84% of budgetPORT HURON MUSEUM OF ARTS & HISTORY: $1,078,604 over 8y, 28% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY RENAISSANCE FUND: $702,742 over 5y, 99% of budgetMID CITY NUTRITION PROGRAM: $489,187 over 8y, 22% of budgetATHLETIC FACTORY INC: $423,818 over 6y, 52% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ST CLAIR RIVER: $408,939 over 7y, 28% of budgetBLUE WATER LAND FUND INC: $392,280 over 4y, 100% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT: $324,912 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSONS: $273,462 over 8y, 17% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLUE WATER AREA: $243,521 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE OF ST CLAIR COUNTY: $236,850 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetTHE COUNCIL ON AGING INC SERVING ST CLAIR COUNTY: $226,931 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSAFE HORIZONS: $203,337 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF SARNIA AND PORT HURON: $165,619 over 8y, 13% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FORT GRATIOT LIGHT: $159,706 over 2y, 70% of budgetST CLAIR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $157,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetPORT HURON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $145,112 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ST CLAIR COUNTY: $123,910 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetBRIDGE BUILDERS COUNSELING INC: $121,730 over 7y, 37% of budgetBLUE WATER COMMUNITY ACTION: $119,589 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLITERACY AND BEYOND INC: $109,999 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetPRIME HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $107,620 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY CROSS EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $92,277 over 3y, 15% of budgetST CLAIR ART ASSOCIATION INC: $89,070 over 5y, 43% of budgetBWROC INC: $85,632 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetMARWOOD MANOR NURSING HOME: $83,335 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY RIDERS INC: $82,000 over 6y, 68% of budgetTHE MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $81,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetST CLAIR COUNTY CHILD ABUSENEGLECT COU: $80,750 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetALGONAC LIONS CHARITIES INC: $77,369 over 4y, 63% of budgetBeaumont Health: $75,357 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWONDERFUL NEWS RADIO INC WNFA-WNFR RADIO: $72,166 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetBLUE WATER PREGNANCY CARE CENTER DBA SPERO CENTER: $67,222 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION HEALTH SERVICES: $66,907 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHUNTER HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC: $64,105 over 4y, 12% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $60,786 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $60,487 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA BEAUTIFUL ME INC: $60,325 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $59,011 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE WATER ALLIES: $58,977 over 2y, 37% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION: $58,420 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetENTER STAGE RIGHT INC: $58,415 over 6y, 12% of budgetKIDS IN DISTRESS SERVICES INC: $57,239 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSANBORN GRATIOT MEMORIAL HOME: $45,988 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE PORT HURON MUSICALE: $44,285 over 7y, 42% of budgetOPERATION TRANSFORMATION: $43,577 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetLEXINGTON ARTS COUNCIL INC: $42,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetThumb Land Convervancy: $40,000 over 1y, 14% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …United Way of St Clai…James C Acheson Found…DTE Energy FoundationMcLaren Port HuronConsumers Energy Foun…Michigan College Acce…Michigan Health & Hos…The Kresge FoundationFour County Community…Center for Technology…Michigan Health Endow…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI48.3× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Foundation of St Clair County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of St Clair County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 182 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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