Michigan · Community foundation
Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation
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- $4.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 116
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 117
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $342,944
- Organizations funded a year
- 70 to 117
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $121M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $261k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 116 | $3.2M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 117 | $3.0M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 116 | $2.8M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 114 | $2.9M | 16% |
| FY2021 | 115 | $2.8M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 108 | $3.3M | 35% |
| FY2019 | 85 | $2.4M | 27% |
| FY2018 | 70 | $1.8M | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwest Michigan Community Action | $1,210,760 | 9 | 1% |
| Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital | $970,082 | 9 | 1% |
| Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy | $777,999 | 9 | 1% |
| Munson Healthcare Foundations | $561,444 | 9 | 1% |
| Child & Family Services of Northwestern Michigan Inc | $556,370 | 9 | 1% |
| Communities in Schoools of Northwest Michigan Inc | $460,678 | 6 | 14% |
| Inland Seas Education Association | $440,661 | 9 | 4% |
| Women's Resource Center Grand Traverse Area | $418,791 | 9 | 3% |
| Traverse Bay Childrens Advocacy Center | $377,679 | 8 | 7% |
| Northwestern Michigan College Foundation | $370,513 | 9 | 2% |
Show all 220 grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 163 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation with peer funders
About Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation
- How much does Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation give?
- Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation reported 116 itemized grants totaling $3,154,318, out of $4,008,624 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 117 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Human Services (13%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northwest Michigan Community Action ($1.2M), Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital ($970k), Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy ($778k).
- Does Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rotary Charities of Traverse City, Oleson Foundation, The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation.
- Where is Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation based?
- Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation is based in MI.
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