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Hillsdale County Community Foundation

Grants to community organizations

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.2MHealth$1.1MReligion$612kHuman Services$563kCrime & Legal$397kFood & Nutrition$181kPublic Benefit$171kCommunity Improvement$148kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $645,237, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,236,424 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $591,187 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $336k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $249k
$11,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF JACKSON: $26k → 13%NON PROFIT NETWORK: $6k → 13%HILLSDALE COUNTY SENIOR SERVICE: $32k → 14%DOMESTIC HARMONY: $23k → 14%HILLSDALE COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES CENTER INC: $21k → 14%DOMESTIC HARMONY: $20k → 14%DOMESTIC HARMONY: $19k → 14%DOMESTIC HARMONY: $19k → 14%DOMESTIC HARMONY: $18k → 14%DOMESTIC HARMONY: $17k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $16k → 14%HILLSDALE COUNTY SENIOR SERVICE: $14k → 14%HILLSDALE CO SENIOR SERVICES CENTER: $13k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $13k → 14%SHARE THE WARMTH OF HILLSDALE CO: $12k → 14%HILLSDALE COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES CENTER INC: $12k → 14%SHARE THE WARMTH OF HILLSDALE COUNTY: $11k → 14%SHARE THE WARMTH OF HILLSDALE CO: $11k → 14%DOMESTIC HARMONY: $10k → 14%HILLSDALE CO SENIOR SERVICES CENTER: $10k → 14%DOMESTIC HARMONY: $10k → 14%SHARE THE WARMTH OF HILLSDALE CO: $8k → 14%HILLSDALE COUNTY SENIOR SERVICE: $7k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $7k → 14%HILLSDALE COUNTY SENIOR SERVICE: $6k → 14%HILLSDALE CO SENIOR SERVICES CENTER: $6k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $6k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $6k → 14%SHARE THE WARMTH OF HILLSDALE COUNTY: $6k → 14%DOMESTIC HARMONY: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 51 repeat orgs$829k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
52

Total granted

$4.2M
$707k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+16%

Still filing today

43%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionHealthEducationAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HC
    HILLSDALE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $561k · revenue +68%
  • SP
    ST PETER'S FREE CLINIC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $219k · revenue +63% · 86% of their budget
  • HC
    HILLSDALE CASA INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $152k · revenue +9% · 54% of their budget

Funded once

  • HR
    HILLSDALE ROTARY CLUB PROJECT FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $99k
  • CO
    CITY OF LITCHFIELD
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $46k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Hillsdale Christian School Corporation

Providing pre-k through high school education by integrating christian faith with academic knowledge

Education
2
Hillcrest Christian Academy

Teach the minds and train the hearts of children in a thoroughly christian environment.

Education
3
Michigan Christian Home

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…

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4
Hillel Day School of Metro Detroit

Provide hebrew and jewish instruction and general secular studies for kindergarten through eighth grade in modern education facilities and also provide early childhood programs.

Education
5
Bold Gold Broadcast and Media Found

Make grants to hillsdale college to be used for to fund the college radio station operations and curriculum.

Philanthropy
6
Hillside Academy

We inspire passinate, confident, and creative students in an individualized, hands-on learning environment that integrates christian values while striving for academic excellence.

Education
7
Hill Country Conservancy

Hill country conservancy preserves vital natural resources through conservation, community collaboration, and engagement to sustain our region now and forever.

Environment
8
Highland Christian Academy

Education, K-5 through 12th grade

Education
9
Highland Park Chamber of Commerce Inc

Local chamber of commerce

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10
Hill View Retirement Center

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.

Human Services
11
Hillel of Metropolitan Detroit

Inspire students to be active in jewish life.

Education
12
Hillwood Country Club

To satisfy and provide our members with distinct social, dining, and recreational needs consistent with the finest private country club tradition.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hillsdale County Senior Services Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
34/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JONESVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $443,271 · OtherJONESVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOLSHILLSDALE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: $278,956 · OtherHILLSDALE COMMUNITY SCHOOLSHILLSDALE COUNTY MEDICAL CARE FACILITY: $170,500 · OtherHOSPICE OF HILLSDALE COUNTY INC: $149,640 · OtherKIMBALL CAMP Outdoor Center: $132,994 · OtherSALEM MENNONITE CHURCH: $127,397 · OtherCRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF HILLSDALE COUNTY INC: $122,493 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $117,056 · Other+84 more: $1,818,215 · Other+84 moreHILLSDALE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $560,522 · HealthHILLSDALE COMMUNIT…ST PETER'S FREE CLINIC: $219,071 · HealthST PETER'S FREE CL…READING EMERGENCY UNIT INC: $94,972 · HealthREADING EMERGENCY …HILLSDALE COUNTY TASK FORCE ON FAMILY VIOLENCE: $141,399 · Human ServicesHILLSDALE COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES CENTER INC: $121,468 · Human ServicesSHARE THE WARMTH OF HILLSDALE COUNTY: $47,879 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $47,051 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of Jackson: $25,500 · Human Services+2 more: $17,170 · Human ServicesHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $166,821 · EducationSpring Arbor University: $15,000 · EducationSHEPHERDS MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE MANOR INC: $7,000 · EducationHILLSDALE CASA INC: $151,699 · Youth DevelopmentHILLSDALE COUNTY AG: $141,260 · Food & NutritionGREATER HILLSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY: $130,399 · AnimalsERINS ANGELS RESCUE: $6,635 · Animals
Other$3,360,522Health$874,565Human Services$400,467Education$198,821Youth Development$151,699Food & Nutrition$141,260Animals$137,034

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHILLSDALE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $560,522 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetST PETER'S FREE CLINIC: $219,071 over 7y, 86% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $166,821 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE CASA INC: $151,699 over 6y, 54% of budgetHOSPICE OF HILLSDALE COUNTY INC: $149,640 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetHILLSDALE COUNTY TASK FORCE ON FAMILY VIOLENCE: $141,399 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetHILLSDALE COUNTY AG: $141,260 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetKIMBALL CAMP Outdoor Center: $132,994 over 5y, 15% of budgetGREATER HILLSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY: $130,399 over 9y, 9.8% of budgetCRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF HILLSDALE COUNTY INC: $122,493 over 7y, 21% of budgetHILLSDALE COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES CENTER INC: $121,468 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetREADING EMERGENCY UNIT INC: $94,972 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSHARE THE WARMTH OF HILLSDALE COUNTY: $47,879 over 5y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $47,051 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK: $46,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $41,725 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetHILLSDALE COUNTY COUNCIL FOR PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGL: $40,738 over 5y, 21% of budgetLove INC of Hillsdale County: $38,720 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL - HILLSDALE ROTARY CLUB: $37,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetHILLSDALE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $32,450 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMICHINDOH CONFERENCE CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHILLSDALE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $27,183 over 1y, 77% of budgetCatholic Charities of Jackson: $25,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANSWERS IN GENESIS INC: $21,428 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpring Arbor University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 360 READING: $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN DISPUTE RESOLUTION SER: $11,670 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 0053: $10,986 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetPositive Action for Christ Inc: $10,179 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFamily Life Broadcasting System: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHEPHERDS MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF MICHIGAN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRIVE-IN MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE MANOR INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetERINS ANGELS RESCUE: $6,635 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP OF HILLSDALE COUNTY INC: $6,400 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNONPROFIT NETWORK: $5,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHILLSDALE COUNTY CONSERVATION CLUB INCORPORATED: $5,300 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetWILDS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $5,156 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Jackson Community Fou…AWH FOUNDATION co ROB…Consumers Energy Foun…United Way of Jackson…The Alvin L Glick Fou…Ann Arbor SparkChristian Community F…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…
Jackson Community FoundationMI19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hillsdale County Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hillsdale County Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 110 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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