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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE
To receive and administer charitable endowment funds for the benefit of the residents of the upper peninsula of michigan and to provide administrative, communication and other support to affiliate members and other community foundations.
$1.8M
Granted FY2024
44
Grants
8
Communities
$508k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
developchristianmembershipsupportivefoundedvolunteersconserve
2020
cpfchicago parksdentaldevelopchristianmembershipsupportive
2021
pregnantpregnancybabyyoung childrenmen womendevelopchristian
2022
copper countrykeweenawyouth
2023
museumhesselpreservationcopper countrypregnantpregnancybaby
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 44 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $474k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
- $250k+1 grant · $508k
$12,975
Median grant
8
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ALL OTHERS LESS THAN 5000$508,061
- CITY OF GLADSTONE$155,380
- BAY DE NOC COMMUNITY COLLEGE$64,798
- U OF M MEDICAL SCHOOL$46,960
- BONIFAS FINE ARTS CENTER$31,223
- OSF ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION$25,500
- DELTA ANIMAL SHELTER$24,784
- MID PENINSULA SCHOOL DISTRICT$23,893
- LES CHENEAUX CULINARY SCHOOL$23,550
- FORD RIVER TOWNSHIP$23,456
- HOLY NAME CATHOLIC SCHOOL$22,596
- RAPID RIVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS$20,630
- CLARK TOWNSHIP$19,161
- LES CHENEAUX EDUCATION FOUNDATION$17,520
- FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN$17,207
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $293k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.1M · 62 repeat orgs$714k to everyone else
62 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
62
49
Total granted
$9.1M
$629k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+33%
+43%
Still filing today
40%
22%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalOther
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
- GLGROW & LEAD COMMUNITY & YOUTH DEVEL6× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +11%
- WBWILLIAM BONIFAS FINE ARTS CENTER4× · 2017–2024 · $128k · revenue +33%
- LCLES CHENEAUX CULINARY SCHOOL6× · 2017–2024 · $91k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SSSTRYKER SALES LLCone grant, 2021 · $60k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE LES CHENEAUX LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $51k
- FBFIRST BANKone grant, 2021 · $43k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Chippewa Watershed Conservancy Inc
To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.
Environment
2
Land Conservancy of West Michigan
The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.
Environment
3
Michigan Lakes and Streams
Preservation and protection of michigan inland lakes and streams
Environment
4
Leelanau Conservancy
To conserve the land, water, and scenic character of leelanau county, michigan.
Environment
5
Six Rivers Land Conservancy
To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special
Environment
6
Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc
The Lake Superior Community Partnership is the Marquette County regions leading resource for economic development, providing a wide variety of affordable and effective development services.
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7
Lake Superior Community Development Corporation
Community development activities improving the social and economic conditions of economically disadvantaged persons and residents of distressed communities. activities include the provision of financial products, development services,…
Human Services
8
Great Lakes Community Conservation Corps Inc
Leverage resources among Great Lakes communities to train and educate disadvantaged populations for credentials that close the skills gap, improve water quality, build habitat, grow the legacy of the original Civilian Conservation Corps
Community Improvement
9
Legacy Land Conservancy
To protect natural areas, working farmlands, waters and recreation spaces in southeastern michigan.
Environment
10
The Great Lakes Historical Society
The great lakes historical society is dedicated to the preservation of great lakes history. the organization operates the national museum of the great lakes and the clarence s. metcalf maritime research library.
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11
Upper Peninsula Land Conservancy
Protect land today for life tomorrow for communities across michigan's upper peninsula
Environment
12
Little Traverse Conservancy Inc
To protect the natural diversity and beauty of northern Michigan by preserving significant land and scenic areas, and fostering appreciation and understanding of the environment.
Environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Menominee-Delta-Schoolcraft and the most unlike its peers is Soo Locks Childrens Museum. 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.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
10%
2,024/20,474
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.
05the grantee network
42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
33/42
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$8,672,263Human Services$292,853Philanthropy$265,385Education$199,510Arts & Culture$182,770Health$94,855Environment$93,139
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 GROW & LEAD COMMUNITY & YOUTH DEVEL ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM BONIFAS FINE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LES CHENEAUX CULINARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds OMEGA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LES CHENEAUX EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES SCHOOL OF WOODEN BOAT ↗
- Who funds DELTA COUNTY PREGNANCY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LES CHENEAUX WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS YMCA ↗
- Who funds GLADSTONE SR CENTER NON PROFIT ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND ↗
- Who funds HESSEL SCHOOL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNNY DUNES 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.
Edward J Sackerson CharitableMI18.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Edward J Sackerson Charitable · Robert & Jeanine Dagenais · The Klungness Family Foundation Inc · Keweenaw Community Foundation · James a Ruppe Foundation · Superior Health Foundation · Copper Shores Community · Dte Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving 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 organisation COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LES CHENEAUX EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 382753233 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on LES CHENEAUX EDUCATION FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 87% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Community Foundation of The?
Find your warmest path to Community Foundation of The through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines