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Greenville Area Community Fnd
The mission of the Greenville Area Community Foundation is to enhance the quality of life in the greater Greenville area.
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 29 grants below total $1,024,306 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,286,664 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,262,358 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 $10k6 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $442k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $545k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids | $225,000 |
| Greenville Public Schools | $176,413 |
| City of Greenville | $87,000 |
| EightCAP Inc | $56,498 |
| Education Foundation of Greenville | $42,375 |
| Montcalm Area Reading Council | $38,430 |
| Belding Area Schools | $36,344 |
| St Charles Borromeo School | $33,628 |
| First Congregational Church of Greenville | $33,533 |
| United Way of Greater Central Michigan | $30,359 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Montcalm County | $30,000 |
| Corewell Health Foundation West Michigan | $25,500 |
| Special Olympics Michigan Inc | $23,250 |
| Greenville Optimist Club | $22,603 |
| Greenville Area Senior Center for Senior Citizens | $20,778 |
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, $709k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 65% 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 +22% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- MCMONTCALM COUNTY 4H FAIR ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +86%
- EFEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE8× · 2018–2025 · $414k · revenue +10% · 89% of their budget
- EIEIGHTCAP INC6× · 2017–2025 · $296k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- MCMONTCALM COUNTY 4-H FAIR ASSOCIATIOone grant, 2017 · $50k
- GHGLC Hope Ministriesone grant, 2018 · $38k · revenue -85%
- FRFLAT RIVER ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $22k
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.
The COGIC Center has successfully provided 1000 meals per month for underprivileged youth ages 6-18 years of age. This is an after school program from the hours of 3;30p.m. - 7:30p.m. Additional the COGIC Center provides after school…
The missoula family ymca's mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. the y serves families and individuals of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions.…
The mission of Montcalm County Habitat for Humanity is to improve lives in our community by building safe and affordable housing in partnership with Gods people.
Our mission is to build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities. The YMCA of the Chippewa Valley is a community centered association dedicated to building a healthy spirit, mind and body for all people, while maintaining an…
To promote the well-being and economic self sufficiency of individuals living with mental illness by providing job training, placement services, and other resources that enable them to gain employment in remote work settings. Through our…
Community programs and services for families, putting christian principles into practicing healthy living, youth development and social responsibility. the ymca's primary exempt purpose is to provide community-based programs that meet the…
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the Midland community through leadership, collaboration, volunteerism and charitable fundraising.
The ymca's mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
The y's programs focus on improving people's spiritual, intellectual, and physical well-being to support people as they actualize their fullest potential. the ymca serves community members of all abilities, ages, cultural backgrounds,…
The greater green bay ymca is a non-profit organization that puts christian principles into practice to strengthen the foundation of our community by building healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
The Y is the nation's leading nonprofit committed to strengthening communities through Youth Development, Healthy Living and Social Responsibility.
We exist to provide households with access to sufficient, nutritious food and related resources. we accomplish this through collaboration, efficient operations, education, and innovative solutions to achieve a hunger-free community in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fremont Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Alpha Family Services of Greenville. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 62 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 MONTCALM COUNTY 4H FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds EIGHTCAP INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019) ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds MONTCALM AREA READING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds United Way of Montcalm-Ionia Counties ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds RANDY'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Have Mercy ↗
- Who funds THE GREENVILLE AREA SENIOR CENTER FOR SENIOR CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FRED MEIJER HEARTLAND TRAIL GROUP ↗
- Who funds KELSEY COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTCALM ALANO CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GLC Hope Ministries ↗
- Who funds CLAY STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds IONIA MONTCALM SECURE & FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOPE CHRISTIAN COUNSELING AND MENTAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds 2ND CHANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Fremont Area Community 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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · United Way of Montcalm-Ionia Counties · Consumers Energy Foundation · Michigan College Access Network · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Central Montcalm Community Foundation · Corewell Health Group Return · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Frey Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Greenville Area Community Fnd 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.
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