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Hillsdale County Community Foundation
Grants to community organizations
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 $645,237 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,236,424 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $591,187 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 $10k9 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $336k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $249k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PETER'S FREE CLINIC INC | $110,000 |
| HILLSDALE ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $80,034 |
| JONESVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $59,064 |
| SALEM MENNONITE CHURCH | $46,000 |
| HILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE | $25,000 |
| CITY OF HILLSDALE | $24,545 |
| GREATER HILLSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY | $24,050 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE GOAL PROGRAM | $22,803 |
| HOSPICE OF HILLSDALE COUNTY | $18,025 |
| HELPING HANDS PRC | $17,333 |
| HILLSDALE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION | $14,375 |
| SHARE THE WARMTH OF HILLSDALE CO | $12,379 |
| HILLSDALE TWNSHP FIREFIGHTERS ASSOC | $12,000 |
| ST ANTHONY FAMILY CENTER | $12,000 |
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, $389k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 5 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
- HCHILLSDALE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $561k · revenue +68%
- SPST PETER'S FREE CLINIC7× · 2018–2025 · $219k · revenue +63% · 86% of their budget
- HCHILLSDALE CASA INC6× · 2018–2023 · $152k · revenue +9% · 54% of their budget
Funded once
- HRHILLSDALE ROTARY CLUB PROJECT FUNDone grant, 2022 · $99k
- COCITY OF LITCHFIELDone grant, 2024 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $46k
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.
Providing pre-k through high school education by integrating christian faith with academic knowledge
Teach the minds and train the hearts of children in a thoroughly christian environment.
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
Provide hebrew and jewish instruction and general secular studies for kindergarten through eighth grade in modern education facilities and also provide early childhood programs.
Make grants to hillsdale college to be used for to fund the college radio station operations and curriculum.
We inspire passinate, confident, and creative students in an individualized, hands-on learning environment that integrates christian values while striving for academic excellence.
Education, K-5 through 12th grade
Hill country conservancy preserves vital natural resources through conservation, community collaboration, and engagement to sustain our region now and forever.
Local chamber of commerce
Hill view's mission, within a framework of christian values, is to enable each individual it serves to realize his or her highest level of physical, psychological and social fulfillment in an atmosphere of respect, dignity, and caring.
Provide living assistance to individuals in need in the local area
To satisfy and provide our members with distinct social, dining, and recreational needs consistent with the finest private country club tradition.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hillsdale County Senior Services Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Erins Angels Rescue. 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 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 110 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 HILLSDALE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST PETER'S FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE CASA INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF HILLSDALE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COUNTY TASK FORCE ON FAMILY VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COUNTY AG ↗
- Who funds KIMBALL CAMP Outdoor Center ↗
- Who funds GREATER HILLSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF HILLSDALE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds READING EMERGENCY UNIT INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE THE WARMTH OF HILLSDALE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COUNTY COUNCIL FOR PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGL ↗
- Who funds Love INC of Hillsdale County ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL - HILLSDALE ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHINDOH CONFERENCE CENTER ↗
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: Jackson Community Foundation · AWH FOUNDATION co ROBERT W GILLETT · Consumers Energy Foundation · United Way of Jackson County · The Alvin L Glick Foundation · Ann Arbor Spark · Christian Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Hillsdale 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.