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Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$118k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
48%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$21,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 29
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$266k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 48% of the organizations Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Recreation & SportsArts & CultureAnimalsFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving27$118k37%
FY202321$61k48%
FY202213$73k31%
FY20215$21k20%
FY202012$18k25%
FY201929$200k28%
FY201828$112k36%
FY201724$72kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$296kArts & Culture$161kScience & Tech$77kPhilanthropy$30kCommunity Improvement$23kYouth Development$20kFood & Nutrition$19kEnvironment$19kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Impression 5 Science Center$77,00071%
Michigan State University$41,0004n/a
Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center$37,00072%
Michigan Trapshooting Association$35,00022%
Center Park Productions$30,00031%
Mid-Michigan Tennis Association$28,0004n/a
Capital City Family Bmx$21,000158%
City of East Lansing$15,7508n/a
Friends of the River$15,0001n/a
Potter Park Zoological Society$12,00031%
Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Impression 5 Science Center$77,00071%
Michigan State University$41,0004n/a
Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center$37,00072%
Michigan Trapshooting Association$35,00022%
Center Park Productions$30,00031%
Mid-Michigan Tennis Association$28,0004n/a
Capital City Family Bmx$21,000158%
City of East Lansing$15,7508n/a
Friends of the River$15,0001n/a
Potter Park Zoological Society$12,00031%
Greater Lansing Area Sports Hall of Fame$10,0001n/a
Capital City Film Festival$9,50072%
Old Town Commercial Association$7,50032%
Lansing Economic Area Partnership$5,50010%
Michigan Institute for Contemporary Art$3,00031%
Michigan Farmers Market Association$2,60020%
Greater Lansing Area Holiday Commission$2,50015%
Capital Area Rugby Foundation$2,5001n/a
Strikeout Baseball$2,50013%
R E Olds Transportation Museum Association Inc$2,50050%
Mid-Michigan Autism Association$2,0001n/a
The Capitol Collective$2,00021%
Michigan Cares for Tourism$2,00041%
Arts Council of Greater Lansing$2,00010%
Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce$1,50030%
Motorcities National Heritage Area Partnership Inc$1,08720%
Lansing Pride$1,00021%
Allen Neighborhood Center$1,00010%
Music Is the Foundation$6002n/a
All of the Above Hip Hop Academy$50010%
R E Olds Chapter$5001n/a
St Johns Area Chamber of Commerce$50010%
Women's Center of Greater Lansing$50010%
Michigan Waterways Stewards$2501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($299k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetImpression 5 Science Center: $77,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetLansing Art Gallery & Education Center: $37,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetMichigan Trapshooting Association: $35,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCenter Park Productions: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCapital City Family Bmx: $21,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetPotter Park Zoological Society: $12,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCapital City Film Festival: $9,500 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetOld Town Commercial Association: $7,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLansing Economic Area Partnership: $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMichigan Institute for Contemporary Art: $3,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMichigan Farmers Market Association: $2,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Lansing Area Holiday Commission: $2,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetStrikeout Baseball: $2,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetR E Olds Transportation Museum Association Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Capitol Collective: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMichigan Cares for Tourism: $2,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetArts Council of Greater Lansing: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLansing Regional Chamber of Commerce: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMotorcities National Heritage Area Partnership Inc: $1,087 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLansing Pride: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAllen Neighborhood Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAll of the Above Hip Hop Academy: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Johns Area Chamber of Commerce: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWomen's Center of Greater Lansing: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Arts Council of Great…Desk Drawer FundCapital Region Commun…Lansing Economic Area…Re Olds FoundationCredit Unions Charter…Cinnaire CorporationDelta Dental Plan of …Dart Foundation fka S…Joe D Pentecost Found…Consumers Energy Foun…Charles Stewart Mott …
Arts Council of Greater LansingMI28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arts Council of Greater Lansing · Desk Drawer Fund · Capital Region Community Foundation · Lansing Economic Area Partnership · Re Olds Foundation · Credit Unions Chartered in the State of 222 Lake Trust Credit Union · Cinnaire Corporation · Delta Dental Plan of Michigan Inc · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · Joe D Pentecost Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation

How much does Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation give?
Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $117,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (42%), Arts & Culture (23%), Science & Tech (11%).
Who are Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Impression 5 Science Center ($77k), Michigan State University ($41k), Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center ($37k).
Does Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arts Council of Greater Lansing, Desk Drawer Fund, Capital Region Community Foundation.
Where is Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation based?
Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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