· Community foundation
Dickinson Area Community Foundation
Enhancing and strengthening our communities now and for generations to come.
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 14 grants below total $320,536 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $606,641 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $286,105 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 $10k9 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY | $86,985 |
| DICKINSON HOSPITALS' FOUNDATION | $77,595 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $40,000 |
| D&D K9 DYNAMICS | $28,000 |
| ALMOST HOME ANIMAL SHELTER | $24,802 |
| MENOMINEE RANGE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION | $9,613 |
| DICKINSON COUNTY CANCER UNIT | $8,394 |
| KINGSFORD AREA LITTLE LEAGUE | $7,680 |
| NORTHWOODS AIR LIFELINE | $7,239 |
| DICKINSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE | $6,800 |
| GRACE METHODIST CHURCH OF NORWAY | $6,500 |
| FELCH TOWNSHIP | $6,391 |
| GUARDIAN ANGELS ST VINCENT FOOD PANTRY | $5,500 |
| DICKINSON TRAIL NETWORK | $5,037 |
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, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 8 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
- DHDICKINSON HOSPITALS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $436k · revenue +370% · 66% of their budget
- DIDICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY6× · 2018–2024 · $159k · revenue +44%
- NLNORTHERN LIGHTS YMCA INC5× · 2017–2023 · $145k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- KSKIWANIS SKI CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $52k · revenue +292%
- DCDICKINSON COUNTY CANCER UNIT LOAN CLOSETone grant, 2017 · $17k
- ASALPHA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTERone grant, 2022 · $16k
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.
Christian camps.
To guide and assist dickinson and iron county residents to access optimal health care to meet their individual needs.
Acquire, build & maintain snowmobile trails
To support funding of healthcare services for residents of mackinac island.
Member programs/services, economic development
Provide rural ambulance service to several communities and provide training in the areas of safety and emergency services to ambulance service staff and the general public.
To promote art awareness.
To provide financial assistance, education and support for cancer patients in delta county, michigan
Maintain & improve pere marquette michigan area snowmobile trails.
Youth hockey program
Operation and preservation of durand union station for education of the public as to history of railroadingin michigan.
State of michigan snonmobile trails and atv trails groomed and maintained. hunter safety courses conducted. fish plants made in public streams
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dickinson Iron Community Services Agency and the most unlike its peers is Crystal Theatre. 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 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 34 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 DICKINSON HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON IRON COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS SKI CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION FACTORY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COUNTY CANCER UNIT ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS AIRLIFELINE LTD ↗
- Who funds Menominee Range Historical Foundation ↗
- Who funds BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP BATAWAGAMA ↗
- Who funds Crystal Theatre ↗
- Who funds Kingsford Area Little League Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BRAUMART ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF MARQUETTE MI SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MENOMINEE RIVER 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: The Klungness Family Foundation Inc · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Dickinson Area Community Foundation 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.