· Community foundation
Gratiot County Community Foundation
To receive and accept property that will be exclusively used for charitable purposes, primarily for the benefit of Gratiot County residents and institutions.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 33 grants below total $341,399 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $610,094 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $268,695 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 $10k16 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Women's Resource Center | $16,200 |
| Gratiot Emergency Housing Corp | $16,000 |
| Breckenridge Elementary School | $15,050 |
| Eugene M Nikkari Elementary | $15,050 |
| Ithaca South Elementary School | $15,050 |
| Ithaca North Elementary School | $15,050 |
| Carrie Knause Elementary | $15,050 |
| Ashley Community Schools | $15,050 |
| Fulton Elementary | $15,050 |
| Gratiot County Hope House | $15,000 |
| Heroes Center | $15,000 |
| United Way of Greater Central Michigan | $15,000 |
| Alma Police Department | $12,000 |
| United Way of Greater Central Michigan | $10,000 |
| Commission on Aging | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $167k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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 +14% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
- SASENIOR ACTIVITY BUILDING BOARD INC6× · 2018–2024 · $116k · revenue +118% · 89% of their budget
- GCGRATIOT COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION6× · 2018–2024 · $82k · revenue +72%
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER CENTRAL MICHIGAN2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- GCGRATIOT COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
- GCGRAT CO FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCone grant, 2017 · $24k
- WTWASHINGTON TOWNSHIPone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
To promote business and community growth and development and prepserve the competitive enterprise system of business.
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.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.
Providing patient support, community connections, education and advocacy.
Information dissemination.
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
Provide rural ambulance service to several communities and provide training in the areas of safety and emergency services to ambulance service staff and the general public.
The Agencys mission is to provide meals and health services to senior citizens in a seven county area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mymichigan Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pardee Cancer Treatment Fund of Gratiot County. 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 39 years old; the field is 35. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 87 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 SENIOR ACTIVITY BUILDING BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds GRATIOT EMERGENCY HOUSING CORPORATI ↗
- Who funds GRATIOT COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GRATIOT COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Gratiot County Players Inc ↗
- Who funds GRATIOT COUNTY FAIR FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds GRATIOT COUNTY HOPE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
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: United Way of Greater Central Michigan · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · Yeo & Yeo Foundation · The Isabella Bank Foundation · Midland Area Community Foundation · Mymichigan Health · Saginaw Community 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 Gratiot 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.