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Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation

We spark positive change by inspiring generosity, caring for resources, and supporting our communities, now and forever.

$4.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
116
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$343k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’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.

02FY2025 · 116 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 116 grants below total $3,154,318 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,008,624 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $854,306 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $239k
  • $10k–50k66 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $343k
$13,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$121M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL LAKE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$342,944
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NW MICHIGAN$125,749
LEELANAU COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER$113,360
PAUL OLIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$109,000
NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$91,295
WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE GRAND TRAVERSE AREA$87,005
CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN$82,490
5LOAVES2FISH NMI$76,770
TRAVERSE BAY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$72,668
GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY$72,560
LELAND PUBLIC SCHOOL$68,500
CHARLEVOIX EMMET INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT$60,000
INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$58,035
LEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS$55,450
LEELANAU CHILDREN'S CENTER$51,300
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF NM: $40k → 9%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF NM: $33k → 9%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF NM: $32k → 9%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF NM: $32k → 9%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF NM: $24k → 9%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF NM: $21k → 9%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF NM: $21k → 9%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE GRAND TRAVERSE AREA: $87k → 7%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE GRAND TRAVERSE AREA: $70k → 7%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE GRAND TRAVERSE AREA: $66k → 7%BENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $19k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $239k → 10%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $56k → 7%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $194k → 10%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE GRAND TRAVERSE AREA: $56k → 7%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $104k → 10%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE GRAND TRAVERSE AREA: $55k → 7%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $90k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $90k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $88k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $88k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $88k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $75k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $42k → 7%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $65k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $65k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $65k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $61k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $39k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $39k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $30k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $29k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $29k → 7%ANGEL CARE CHILD CARE INC: $28k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS NORTHERN MI CHAPTER: $25k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $22k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $20k → 7%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $19k → 7%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $19k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $19k → 10%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $41k → 10%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $33k → 10%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%PARAKLESIS INC DBA PEACE RANCH: $16k → 10%THE FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER: $22k → 7%THE FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER: $22k → 7%FRIENDS OF LAKE LEELANAU: $51k → 7%FRIENDS OF LAKE LEELANAU: $25k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
MI
NY
MA
VA
AZ
DC
HI
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 159 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

159 repeat relationships — 103 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

159
92

Total granted

$23M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+9%

Still filing today

69%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • NM
    NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +35%
  • PO
    PAUL OLIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $970k · revenue +64%
  • GT
    GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $778k · revenue +321%

Funded once

  • TC
    TRAVERSE CITY & GARFIELD TWP RECREATION AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2019 · $239k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $68k
  • CU
    CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST
    one grant, 2020 · $52k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
2
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
3
Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc

To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.

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4
Little Traverse Conservancy Conservation Trust

To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.

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5
Top of Michigan Trails Council

We advocate and facilitate the development of a network of multipurpose recreational trails in Northern Lower Michigan.

Recreation & Sports
6
Legacy Land Conservancy

Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever

Environment
7
The Little Forks Conservancy Inc

To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.

Environment
8
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
9
Six Rivers Land Conservancy Fka Six Rivers Regional Land Conservancy

To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special

Environment
10
Business Leaders for Michigan

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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11
United Way of Marquette County

Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…

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12
Fund for Lake Michigan Inc

Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Michigan Community Action and the most unlike its peers is Maraschino Music. 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%6%<5yr14%13%5–10yr23%17%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr14%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%8%5–10yr23%10%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr12%40%35–55yr14%18%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%6/225
the rest of the field
8%
96/1,169

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.

04the grantee network

177 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. 177 of the 269 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
64
Early backer (in before they grew)
173/177
Grantees still filing
122/177
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTRAL LAKE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $2,776,076 · OtherCENTRAL LAKE PUBLIC SCHOOLSMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS — $561,444 · OtherCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC — $556,370 · Other+122 more — $9,229,773 · Other+122 moreNORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION — $1,210,760 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST MICH…WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER GRAND TRAVERSE AREA — $418,791 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S RESOUR…GENERATIONS AHEAD — $311,849 · Human ServicesGENERATIONS AH…Womens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc — $204,951 · Human ServicesWomens Resourc…FATHER FRED FOUNDATION — $173,225 · Human ServicesFATHER FRED FO…GW HOMELESS SERVICES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC — $128,275 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING — $109,850 · Human Services+11 more — $588,409 · Human Services+11 moreINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $362,035 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCH…OLD ART BUILDING — $305,820 · Arts & CultureOLD ART B…THE FRIENDS OF POINT BETSIE LIGHTHOUSE INC — $244,277 · Arts & CultureTHE FRIEN…TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC — $222,043 · Arts & CultureTRAVERSE …OLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE INC — $172,685 · Arts & CultureOLD TOWN …BAY COMMUNITY THEATRE ORGANIZATION — $149,882 · Arts & CultureBAY COMMU…NORTH MANITOU LIGHT KEEPERS INC — $125,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH MAN…FISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $115,125 · Arts & CultureFISHTOWN …THE ELIZABETH LANE OLIVER CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $78,519 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES — $78,100 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $222,235 · Arts & Culture+9 moreGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $777,999 · EnvironmentINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $440,661 · EnvironmentLEELANAU CONSERVANCY — $193,582 · EnvironmentSEEDS — $106,299 · EnvironmentCitizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior — $70,000 · EnvironmentTORCH LAKE PROTECTION ALLIANCE — $63,773 · Environment+4 more — $95,952 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC — $460,678 · EducationNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $370,513 · EducationLEELANAU CHILDREN'S CENTER — $291,786 · EducationTHE FRIENDS OF THE BENZIE SHORES DISTRICT LIBRARY — $145,000 · EducationFRANKFORT-ELBERTA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $116,202 · Education+11 more — $262,200 · EducationPAUL OLIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $970,082 · HealthTRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION — $149,468 · HealthMICHAEL'S PLACE — $113,153 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN — $92,330 · Health+3 more — $47,040 · HealthUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN — $346,780 · PhilanthropyGrand Traverse Pavilions Foundation — $335,885 · PhilanthropyKALKASKA AREA INTERFAITH RESOURCES — $58,367 · PhilanthropyCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS — $40,000 · PhilanthropyROTARY CLUB OF TRAVERSE BAY SUNRISE FOUNDATION INC — $27,429 · Philanthropy
Other$13,123,663Human Services$3,146,110Arts & Culture$2,075,721Environment$1,748,266Education$1,646,379Health$1,372,073Philanthropy$808,461

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION — $1,210,760 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetPAUL OLIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $970,082 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $777,999 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS — $561,444 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC — $556,370 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC — $460,678 over 6y, 14% of budgetINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $440,661 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER GRAND TRAVERSE AREA — $418,791 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetTRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER — $377,679 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $370,513 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetLEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC — $365,754 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $362,035 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN — $346,780 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetGrand Traverse Pavilions Foundation — $335,885 over 9y, 20% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE BAY YMCA — $335,750 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetGENERATIONS AHEAD — $311,849 over 6y, 78% of budgetOLD ART BUILDING — $305,820 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetCHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY — $296,409 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetLEELANAU CHILDREN'S CENTER — $291,786 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC — $245,726 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetSAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC — $245,050 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF POINT BETSIE LIGHTHOUSE INC — $244,277 over 9y, 8.4% of budgetNORTE YOUTH CYCLING — $231,439 over 8y, 34% of budgetTRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC — $222,043 over 9y, 9.5% of budget5LOAVES2FISHNMI — $215,630 over 5y, 31% of budgetWomens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc — $204,951 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetLEELANAU CONSERVANCY — $193,582 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetFATHER FRED FOUNDATION — $173,225 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetOLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE INC — $172,685 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC — $163,258 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWE — $152,945 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetTHE ROCK OF KINGSLEY INC — $151,747 over 6y, 19% of budgetBAY COMMUNITY THEATRE ORGANIZATION — $149,882 over 4y, 26% of budgetTRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION — $149,468 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE BENZIE SHORES DISTRICT LIBRARY — $145,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetACME CHRISTIAN THRIFT STORE &FOOD PANTRY — $136,558 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetMILLS COMMUNITY HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $135,655 over 9y, 29% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - GRAND TRAVERSE REGION — $132,270 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC — $129,316 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetGW HOMELESS SERVICES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC — $128,275 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetNORTH MANITOU LIGHT KEEPERS INC — $125,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetFRANKFORT-ELBERTA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $116,202 over 9y, 87% of budgetFISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $115,125 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetGLEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC — $113,935 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetMICHAEL'S PLACE — $113,153 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE AREA COMMUNITY LIVING FOUNDATION INC — $110,037 over 9y, 86% of budgetNORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING — $109,850 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetSEEDS — $106,299 over 7y, 0.9% of budget
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 NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
  • Who funds PAUL OLIVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER GRAND TRAVERSE AREA ↗
  • Who funds TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds Grand Traverse Pavilions Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE BAY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds GENERATIONS AHEAD ↗
  • Who funds OLD ART BUILDING ↗
  • Who funds CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LEELANAU CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF POINT BETSIE LIGHTHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTE YOUTH CYCLING ↗
  • Who funds TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC ↗
  • Who funds 5LOAVES2FISHNMI ↗
  • Who funds Womens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds FATHER FRED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWE ↗

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.

Rotary Charities of T…Oleson FoundationThe Art and Mary Schm…Les & Ann Biederman F…Jim and Diana Huckle …Green Brick Foundatio…Consumers Energy Foun…The Broad Family Foun…Petoskey-Harbor Sprin…Impact 100 of Travers…United Way of Northwe…Dte Energy Foundation
Rotary Charities of Traverse CityMI147.3× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Oleson Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundation · Green Brick Foundation Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Broad Family Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Impact 100 of Traverse City Inc · United Way of Northwest Michigan · Dte Energy 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 Grand Traverse Regional 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 69%
  • Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 269 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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