· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| Ithaca North Elementary School | $15,050 |
| Fulton Elementary | $15,050 |
| Eugene M Nikkari Elementary | $15,050 |
| Ashley Community Schools | $15,050 |
| Ithaca South Elementary School | $15,050 |
| Breckenridge Elementary School | $15,050 |
| Carrie Knause Elementary | $15,050 |
| Gratiot County Hope House | $15,000 |
| United Way of Greater Central Michigan | $15,000 |
| Heroes Center | $15,000 |
| Alma Police Department | $12,000 |
| Village of Breckenridge | $10,000 |
| Commission on Aging | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGRATIOT COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION6× · 2018–2024 · $82k · revenue +64%
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER CENTRAL MICHIGAN2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +14%
- GCGratiot County Players Inc2× · 2017–2021 · $34k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- GCGRATIOT COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
- GCGRAT CO FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCone grant, 2017 · $24k
- FFFAIR FOR YOUTHone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 87 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gratiot County Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gratiot County Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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