· Public charity
Credit Unions Chartered in the State of Michigan Frankenmuth Credit Union
Provide safe, convenient, cost effective services for the financial well-being of the credit union and its members.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of CREDIT UNIONS CHARTERED IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN FRANKENMUTH CREDIT UNION’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 5 grants below total $69,375 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $613,994 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $544,619 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 $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VASSAR MUSIC BOOSTERS | $26,000 |
| HERITAGE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $20,375 |
| HEMLOCK COMMUNITY PEP CLUB | $10,000 |
| RAM PRODUCTS | $7,000 |
| MARATHON TWP COMMUNITY PARK | $6,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
The Historical Society of Michigan will foster in citizens a deeper understanding of and appreciation for all Michigan history through programs and publications; preserve and promote Michigan history through conferences, publications,…
To support and assist VFW Members and local Veterans.
The historical society of saginaw county is committed to serve the community by telling the continuing story of the people of the saginaw region through exploration, preservation and presentation of their historical and cultural heritage.
Maintain historical museum
To preserve, record and maintain the historical information of the area between michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, known as michilimackinac.
To preserve historical information, restore and maintain historical buildings, and promote historical education.
A voice of the building industry in Michigan. The primary purpose is to positively influence the legislative, regulatory and legal issues that affect the industry.
To teach & perpetuate the history of military accomplishments of citizens of the state of michigan and to maintain a museum for that purpose.
To educate the public on the history of Manistee County
Jewish historical society of michigan shares and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the jewish people, communities and institutions of michigan.
Advocate for michigan's historic resources to contribute to the economic vitality, sense of place and connection to the past.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saginaw Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Vassar Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 18% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
14 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. 14 of the 37 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 Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRANKENMUTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR THE FORGOTTEN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds FRANKENMUTH FARMERS MARKET ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VASSAR HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Frankenmuth Wrestling Booster Club Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MICHIGAN AMATEUR NETWORK ↗
- Who funds READ Association of Saginaw County ↗
- Who funds FRANKENMUTH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Huron County Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Michigan ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Saginaw Community Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · The Frankenmuth Community Foundation Inc · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Credit Unions Chartered in the State of Michigan Frankenmuth 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.
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.