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Credit Unions Chartered in the State of 222 Lake Trust Credit Union

Members will understand and experience the benefits of a credit union relationship at a cost justified by the results.

$349k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$948kEducation$162kFood & Nutrition$160kArts & Culture$152kCommunity Improvement$133kHealth$71kPhilanthropy$33kHousing & Shelter$33kYouth Development$10kOther$523k
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $209k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAKE TRUST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION$100,000
DOWNTOWN LANSING INC$42,175
GREATER BRIGHTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$17,750
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$17,448
ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$13,750
THE SALVATION ARMY$12,500
GREATER LANSING AREA MLK HOLIDAY COMMISSION$12,500
MICHIGAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION$12,375
LACASA$10,350
NO SENIOR WITHOUT CHRISTMAS$10,000
FOOD GATHERERS$10,000
GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK$10,000
CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION$10,000
WORKSKILLS FOUNDATION$10,000
THE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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, $930k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HEROIC IMAGINATION PROJECT: $6k → 10%LAKE TRUST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $140k → 5%THE HOUSE OF PROMISE: $8k → 11%HEROIC IMAGINATION PROJECT: $6k → 10%LAKE TRUST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $132k → 5%LAKE TRUST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $114k → 5%LAKE TRUST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $104k → 5%LAKE TRUST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $100k → 5%THE CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%LAKE TRUST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $91k → 5%THE CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%LAKE TRUST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $81k → 5%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $8k → 8%THE CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%LAKE TRUST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $50k → 5%CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%OXFORD KIDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%LMTS COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES: $7k → 16%LMTS COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES: $7k → 16%ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $14k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 26 repeat orgs$427k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
28

Total granted

$1.8M
$369k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+38%

Still filing today

81%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

  • LT
    LAKE TRUST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $812k · revenue +140% · 61% of their budget
  • I5
    IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER
    5× · 2017–2021 · $90k · revenue +56%
  • L
    LACASA
    5× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • MH
    MICHIGAN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $56k · revenue +42%
  • WL
    WEINERS LTD
    one grant, 2022 · $42k
  • WS
    WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $28k

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
Detroit Food Policy Council

The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…

Food & Nutrition
2
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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3
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
4
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

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

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5
Detroit Regional Chamber

The chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.

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6
Jobs for Michigan Council

The organization's mission is to provide citizens of michigan with an understanding of how current policy initiatives will affect their well-being; promote the common good, economic growth and general welfare of the citizens of michigan;…

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7
Howell Area Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to be a catalyst for a vital business environment and an exceptional community.

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8
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit

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9
Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce

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

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10
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
11
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
12
Michigan Farmers Market Association

Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Chamber Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Work Skills Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVulnerable Population Suppo…Family Philanthropic Founda…Michigan Policy Advocacy Or…Member-Owned Credit UnionsDetroit Community Developme…Wisconsin Industry Associat…Hospital and Health SystemsAnimal Rescue and Conservat…
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
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr13%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr19%55%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr13%10%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/61
the rest of the field
16%
3,591/22,928

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.

04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
30/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LAKE TRUST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $812,303 · Human ServicesLAKE TRUST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATIONCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION — $52,500 · Human ServicesCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION+7 more — $82,915 · Human Services+7 moreLACASA — $59,950 · OtherLACASAGREATER BRIGHTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $57,250 · OtherGREATER BRIGHTON AREA CHAMBER …CITY OF LANSING — $55,775 · OtherCITY OF LANSINGSALVATION ARMY — $50,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYWEINERS LTD — $41,844 · OtherWEINERS LTDCHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT HOLDINGS LLC — $30,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — $27,500 · OtherFOOD GATHERERS — $25,000 · Other2 STONES EVENTS — $24,000 · OtherUTEC — $20,000 · OtherWORK SKILLS FOUNDATION — $27,500 · OtherInterfaith Hospitality Network of Washtenaw County — $20,000 · Other+17 more — $158,948 · Other+17 moreGREATER LANSING AREA HOLIDAY COMMISSION — $65,000 · EducationMICHIGAN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOC — $56,000 · EducationROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS — $20,000 · EducationCLEARY UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationNATIONAL DIVERSITY COUNCIL — $6,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK — $56,100 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $51,948 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionBOUNTIFUL HARVEST INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionEASTERN MARKET CORPORATION — $6,000 · Food & NutritionHAND2HAND — $5,500 · Food & NutritionIMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER — $90,000 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $27,375 · Arts & CultureCENTER PARK PRODUCTIONS — $20,000 · Arts & CultureHOLLAND TULIP TIME FESTIVAL INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureDOWNTOWN LANSING PARTNERSHIP INC — $95,459 · Community ImprovementHOWELL MAIN STREET INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 · Community ImprovementHartland Chamber of Commerce — $8,000 · Community ImprovementTRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN — $55,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthVINA COMMUNITY DENTAL CENTER INC — $5,500 · Health
Human Services$947,718Other$597,767Education$162,000Food & Nutrition$159,548Arts & Culture$152,375Community Improvement$133,459Health$70,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLAKE TRUST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $812,303 over 8y, 61% of budgetIMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER — $90,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetGREATER LANSING AREA HOLIDAY COMMISSION — $65,000 over 6y, 23% of budgetLACASA — $59,950 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER BRIGHTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $57,250 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK — $56,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOC — $56,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN — $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION — $52,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $51,948 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORK SKILLS FOUNDATION — $27,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetMICHIGAN CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $27,375 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFOOD GATHERERS — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Hospitality Network of Washtenaw County — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOWELL MAIN STREET INC — $20,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetBOUNTIFUL HARVEST INC — $20,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetNo Senior Without Christmas — $17,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLarry M Trice Sr Community Outreach Services — $14,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetAllen Neighborhood Center — $13,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHumble Design Inc — $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHeroic Imagination Project — $12,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetOXFORD KIDS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMICHIGAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROWING HOPE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOLLAND TULIP TIME FESTIVAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCLEARY UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe House of Promise — $8,165 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHartland Chamber of Commerce — $8,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetMICHIGAN CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGRAND HAVEN COAST GUARD FESTIVAL INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY — $7,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetEASTERN MARKET CORPORATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAND2HAND — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBerista Inc — $5,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVINA COMMUNITY DENTAL CENTER INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLansing Promise — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANN ARBOR HANDS-ON MUSEUM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Consumers Energy Foun…Dte Energy FoundationCommunity Foundation …Capital Region Commun…Harry a and Margaret …United Way for Southe…Delta Dental Plan of …The Carls FoundationComerica Charitable F…Lansing Economic Area…Charles Stewart Mott …Greater Lansing Desti…
Consumers Energy FoundationMI31.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Consumers Energy Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Capital Region Community Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Delta Dental Plan of Michigan Inc · The Carls Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Lansing Economic Area Partnership · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Greater Lansing Destination Development 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 Credit Unions Chartered in the State of 222 Lake Trust Credit Union 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

    Source object · view filing

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