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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$497kRecreation & Sports$350kHuman Services$121kHousing & Shelter$114kFood & Nutrition$89kPublic Safety & Disaster$78kReligion$77kCrime & Legal$73kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $384,942, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,061,898 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $676,956 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $319k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
RSA FOUNDATION$15,000
SKYLINE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER$15,000
VILLAGE OF DRYDEN$13,500
SUSIE Q'S KIDS INC$13,400
VILLAGE OF ARMADA$12,500
KIWANIS CLUB OF LAPEER FOUNDATION$12,500
FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS$12,000
ROMEO BAND BOOSTERS$10,451
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%A KID AGAIN INC: $6k → 9%MACOMB FOSTER CLOSET: $10k → 10%RSA FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%HISPANIC SERVICE CENTER: $6k → 10%DUTTON FARM INC: $20k → 8%SUSIE Q'S KIDS INC: $13k → 10%SUSIE Q'S KIDS INC: $9k → 10%SUSIE Q'S KIDS INC: $8k → 10%SKYLINE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER: $15k → 10%POBLO INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 10%SAMARITAN HOUSE: $10k → 10%SAMARITAN HOUSE: $8k → 10%SAMARITAN HOUSE: $8k → 10%SAMARITAN HOUSE: $6k → 10%SAMARITAN HOUSE: $6k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 24 repeat orgs$599k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
35

Total granted

$1.1M
$412k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+22%

Still filing today

42%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k 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 ServicesHealthReligionEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SP
    SEVEN PONDS NATURE CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $56k · revenue +42%
  • MC
    MACOMB COUNTY ROTATING EMERGENCY SHELTER TEAM
    5× · 2017–2022 · $48k · revenue +92%
  • LV
    LIONS VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH CAMP
    3× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • AT
    ADDISON TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +23%
  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF LAPEER COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • CF
    CROSSROADS FOR YOUTH
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -28%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Family Service Agency of Mid Michig

Social service agency serving clients in mid-michigan.

Human Services
2
The Comfort Home Mi

Provide no cost care and no cost room and board for the terminally ill.

Human Services
3
Michigan Foster Care Closet

Provide support, services and aid to current, future and past foster, adoptive and relative parents who are or were in the foster care system.

Human Services
4
Hope Medical Clinic Inc

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…

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5
Manistee County Council On Aging

Provide services for senior citizens both through the center and to those with limited resources or homebound.

Human Services
6
Hospice Homes of Genesee and Lapeer Counties

To provide housing and end of life care and support to terminally ill individuals.

Human Services
7
Lending Hands of Michigan Inc

The mission of lending hands is to lend various kinds of home medical and other related equipment, for free and on a temporary basis, to anyone living in our service area without regard to age, race, sex, creed, income or disability.

Health
8
Oscoda County Council On Aging

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.

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9
Macomb County Chamber of Commerce

The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.

Unclassified
10
Mymichigan Home Care

Creating healthy communities - together

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11
Macomb County Humane Society

Provide care for homeless/abused animals

Animals
12
Milan Seniors for Healthy Living

Empowering healthy aging and enhancing quality of life for seniors and their support networks through programs and services in the milan, mi community.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Samaritan House; 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.
04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
20/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROMEO COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $152,754 · OtherROMEO COMMUNITY SCHOOLSCAPAC COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $101,716 · OtherCAPAC COMMUNITY SCHOOLSIMLAY CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $83,836 · OtherIMLAY CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOLSCOUNTY OF LAPEER: $60,000 · OtherALMONT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $54,447 · OtherIMMANUEL CONGREGATIONAL UCC: $46,250 · OtherAMAZING GRACE CHURCH OF IMLAY CITY: $43,000 · Other+49 more: $677,849 · Other+49 moreSAMARITAN HOUSE: $37,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN H…TURNING POINT INC: $31,000 · Human ServicesTURNING POI…SUSIE QS KIDS INC: $30,099 · Human ServicesSUSIE QS KI…DUTTON FARM: $20,000 · Human ServicesDUTTON FARMRSA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesRSA FOUNDAT…SKYLINE CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesSKYLINE CAM…MACOMB FOSTER CLOSET: $10,000 · Human ServicesMACOMB FOST…POBLO INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · Human ServicesPOBLO INTER…HISPANIC SERVICE CENTER INC: $6,100 · Human Services+1 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesHURON-CLINTON METROPARKS FOUNDATION: $107,233 · Public BenefitADDISON TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY: $50,000 · EducationFAMILY LITERACY CENTER: $12,500 · EducationSEVEN PONDS NATURE CENTER INC: $55,758 · EnvironmentMACOMB COUNTY ROTATING EMERGENCY SHELTER TEAM: $48,000 · Housing & ShelterLOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST OF GREATER LAPEER: $40,000 · ReligionLOVE INC OF NORTH OAKLAND COUNTY: $6,385 · Religion
Other$1,219,852Human Services$180,199Public Benefit$107,233Education$62,500Environment$55,758Housing & Shelter$48,000Religion$46,385

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHURON-CLINTON METROPARKS FOUNDATION: $107,233 over 5y, 13% of budgetSEVEN PONDS NATURE CENTER INC: $55,758 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetADDISON TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBRARY: $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMACOMB COUNTY ROTATING EMERGENCY SHELTER TEAM: $48,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetLOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST OF GREATER LAPEER: $40,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetLIONS VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH CAMP: $37,713 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE: $37,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTURNING POINT INC: $31,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSUSIE QS KIDS INC: $30,099 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR YOUTH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS: $22,980 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE COUNCIL ON AGING INC SERVING ST CLAIR COUNTY: $21,184 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDUTTON FARM: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRSA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSKYLINE CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFAMILY LITERACY CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMACOMB FOSTER CLOSET: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPOLLY ANN TRAILWAY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPOBLO INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 2052: $9,068 over 1y, 17% of budgetYOUNG MUSICIANS COMMUNITY: $9,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetRAY TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,675 over 1y, 49% of budgetMACOMB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $7,250 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTRINITY COMMUNITY CARE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetLOVE INC OF NORTH OAKLAND COUNTY: $6,385 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHISPANIC SERVICE CENTER INC: $6,100 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetA KID AGAIN INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY CENTER OF MACOMB: $6,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 DUTTON FARM ↗
  • Who funds ORION AREA YOUTH ASSISTANCE ↗
  • Who funds RSA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SKYLINE CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY LITERACY CENTER ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Lapeer County Communi…Community Foundation …DTE Energy FoundationUnited Way for Southe…The Barton Malow Foun…The L & L Educational…Consumers Energy Foun…Appletree Hill Founda…Strunk FoundationDryden Family Foundat…Eagles for ChildrenCanton Community Foun…
Lapeer County Community FoundationMI34.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Four County Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Four County Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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