· Community foundation
Fremont Area Community Foundation
To enhance the quality of life for all people of newaygo county and surrounding communities.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $245k
- $10k–50k62 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k33 grants · $3.6M
- $250k+5 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TrueNorth Community Services | $1,458,846 |
| Newaygo County Regional Educational Service Agency | $1,035,549 |
| Arts Center for Newaygo County | $458,710 |
| Fremont Public Schools | $326,137 |
| Love In the Name of Christ - Newaygo County | $293,100 |
| County of Newaygo | $247,600 |
| City of Fremont | $227,250 |
| Trout Unlimited | $190,141 |
| Newaygo County Council for the Arts Inc | $188,575 |
| Feeding America West Michigan Food Bank | $179,450 |
| Second Christian Reformed Church | $176,811 |
| Heritage Museum of Newaygo County | $159,750 |
| Bellwether Harbor Animal Shelter | $153,309 |
| Stone Hill Estates | $150,000 |
| Frey Management LLC | $150,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $11.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Fremont Area Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
183 repeat relationships — 113 still active in FY2024, 70 since wound down; 22 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- TCTRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +17%
- ACARTS CENTER FOR NEWAYGO COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +23% · 77% of their budget
- LILOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +31% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- HNHOPE NETWORK AFFORDABLE INDEPENDENT LIVING FKA 54TH STREET NPHCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $163k · revenue +188%
- AEAllen Edwin Homesone grant, 2023 · $150k
- BPBig Prairie Townshipone grant, 2022 · $134k
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.
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To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.
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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Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
The west coast chamber exists to be a catalyst for business growth and development, a convener of leaders and influencers, and a champion for a thriving community.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
The organization's mission is to foster positive change by providing opportunities that promote self-sufficiency, improving the quality of life and building stronger, more connected communitites. northwest michigan community action agency,…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fremont Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Gerber 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
137 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. 137 of the 289 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER FOR NEWAYGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST ↗
- Who funds TRUENORTH CENTER FOR NONPROFIT HOUSING ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUM OF NEWAYGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEWAYGO COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEWAYGO COUNTY PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Eagle Village Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMENS INFORMATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Fremont Christian School Society ↗
- Who funds RIGHT PLACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALDWIN FAMILY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY NETWORK WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds NEWAYGO COUNTY COMPASSION HOME FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL ↗
- Who funds NEWAYGO COUNTY TOURISM COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ALPHA FAMILY CENTER OF NEWAYGO ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds NEWAYGO COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan 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: Feeding America West Michigan · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · The Gerber Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · Frey Foundation · United Way of the Lakeshore · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · The Fremont Area Elderly Needs Fund · Dte Energy Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way
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 Fremont 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.
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Avow Hospice Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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