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Four County Community Foundation
FOUR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is committed to serving the current and emerging needs of our local community, continuing the tradition of philanthropy begun generations ago.
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 27 grants below total $384,942 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,061,898 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $676,956 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 · $66k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $319k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMAZING GRACE CHURCH OF IMLAY CITY | $43,000 |
| IMLAY CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $37,491 |
| CAPAC COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $36,276 |
| SZAJNA-CARR FOR THE PAWS | $20,000 |
| LAPEER COUNTY ISD | $17,500 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING INC | $15,500 |
| LOVE INC OF GREATER LAPEER | $15,000 |
| SKYLINE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER | $15,000 |
| RSA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| VILLAGE OF DRYDEN | $13,500 |
| SUSIE Q'S KIDS INC | $13,400 |
| KIWANIS CLUB OF LAPEER FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| VILLAGE OF ARMADA | $12,500 |
| FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS | $12,000 |
| ROMEO BAND BOOSTERS | $10,451 |
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 (FY18–24, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 14 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k 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
- SPSEVEN PONDS NATURE CENTER INC5× · 2017–2021 · $56k · revenue +38%
- MCMACOMB COUNTY ROTATING EMERGENCY SHELTER TEAM5× · 2017–2022 · $48k · revenue +92%
- LVLIONS VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH CAMP3× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- ATADDISON TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +23%
- CACHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF LAPEER COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CFCROSSROADS FOR YOUTHone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -28%
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.
Social service agency serving clients in mid-michigan.
Provide no cost care and no cost room and board for the terminally ill.
Hope is a not-for-profit interdenominational christian medical, dental, and social service organization. hope's goal is to provide compassionate and practical help, ministering to the whole person with dignity and respect. this includes…
Our mission is to promote and enrich quality of life for older adults and those who care for them by collaboratively providing meaningful services and opportunities.
Provide care for homeless/abused animals
Provide services for senior citizens both through the center and to those with limited resources or homebound.
Organized exclusively to plan, operate and coordinate programs, public and private, to promote and safeguard the independence, care, well-being, and security for senior citizens and elderly in oscoda county, michigan.
Provide support, services and aid to current, future and past foster, adoptive and relative parents who are or were in the foster care system.
To provide housing and end of life care and support to terminally ill individuals.
To serve individuals with disabilities by providing residential and personal support in a manner that promotes individual dignity, community integration and quality of life
Rescue, care for, and release abandoned and injured birds.
Helping Hands Dental Center is the community's primary nonprofit agency promoting oral health initiatives and providing dental services for Medicaid eligible adults.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Samaritan House and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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.
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 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 73 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 HURON-CLINTON METROPARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEVEN PONDS NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ADDISON TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MACOMB COUNTY ROTATING EMERGENCY SHELTER TEAM ↗
- Who funds LOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST OF GREATER LAPEER ↗
- Who funds LIONS VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds SUSIE QS KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL ON AGING INC SERVING ST CLAIR COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ORION AREA YOUTH ASSISTANCE ↗
- Who funds DUTTON FARM ↗
- Who funds RSA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKYLINE CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LITERACY CENTER ↗
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: Lapeer County Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Barton Malow Foundation · The L & L Educational Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Appletree Hill Foundation · Strunk Foundation · Dryden Family Foundation · Eagles for Children · Canton Community Foundation Inc
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 Four County 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.