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Impact 100 of Traverse City Inc

Impact 100 traverse city collectively funds transformational grants in the areas of environment/preservation, education, arts & culture, family, and health & wellness in the five county area of lower northwestern michigan including grand traverse, antrim, leelanau, benzie and kalkaska.

$348k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$116k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$585kEducation$458kEnvironment$238kRecreation & Sports$228kArts & Culture$222kHousing & Shelter$218kHuman Services$112kScience & Tech$110k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$116,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$525k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NMC FOUNDATION AT NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE$116,000
FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER$116,000
THOMPSONVILLE AREA REVITALIZATION PROJECT$116,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $356k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SINGLE MOMM: $112k → 10%PEACE RANCH: $128k → 10%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER: $116k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 16% of Impact 100 of Traverse City Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Impact 100 of Traverse City Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your field

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.

1
Northwest Michigan Invasive Species Network

To protect, enhance, and promote northwest michigan's natural communities through terrestrial invasive plant management and outreach

Environment
2
Western Michigan Christian Encampment

Christian camps.

Recreation & Sports
3
Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce

Member programs/services, economic development

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4
Little Traverse Conservancy Conservation Trust

To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.

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5
Fostering Solutions

The purpose of the organization is to provide child welfare and supporting services to children, families, and individuals working and living in michigan.

Human Services
6
The Michigan Glass Project
Public Benefit
7
Digital Lakes Inc

To showcase michigan as a premier digital hub - attracting, developing, and retaining top tech talent across industries, while simultaneously enhancing the growth and vitality of our state and the economy.

Science & Tech
8
Muskegon Christian School

Equipping minds and hearts to love, learn, and lead for Christ.

Education
9
Northern Transformation Corporation

To improve the quality of life in northern michigan.

Community Improvement
10
Michigan Industrial and Technology

Encourage ind/tech education

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11
Pace North

A provider of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) which is a community-based, long-term care delivery program that provides comprehensive, coordinated, managed care to eligible participants.

Health
12
Keweenaw Trails Services Inc

Acquire, build & maintain snowmobile trails

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Traverse Bay Childrens Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Grass River Natural Area Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr14%14%5–10yr22%18%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr13%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%5%<5yr14%15%5–10yr22%21%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr13%10%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
7%
102/1,372

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.

05the grantee network

22 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC — $123,500 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS…NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $116,000 · EducationNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN C…DOLLY PARTONS IMAGINATION LIBRARY GTR — $113,000 · EducationDOLLY PARTONS IMAGINATI…Newtons Road Northwest — $105,333 · EducationNewtons Road NorthwestPARAKLESIS INC — $127,500 · Human ServicesPARAKLESIS INCFriendship Community Center Inc — $116,000 · Human ServicesFriendship Communi…SINGLE MOMM — $112,000 · Human ServicesSINGLE MOMMADDICTION TREATMENT SERVICES INC — $123,500 · OtherADDICTION TREATMENT SERVICES …GRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA INC — $110,000 · OtherGRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - GRAND TRAVERSE REGION — $105,334 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - GRAND …Freedom Builders of America — $113,000 · OtherFreedom Builders of AmericaMICHAEL'S PLACE — $105,333 · OtherMICHAEL'S PLACEFRIENDS OF THE GARDEN THEATER — $112,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE GA…COGNITION — $110,000 · Arts & CultureCOGNITIONCrosshatch Center for Art & Ecology — $110,000 · Arts & CultureCrosshatch Center…UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN — $113,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …CANDID — $112,000 · PhilanthropyCANDIDINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $127,500 · EnvironmentTHOMPSONVILLE AREA REVITALIZATION PROJEC — $116,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$457,833Human Services$355,500Other$557,167Arts & Culture$332,000Philanthropy$225,000Environment$127,500Recreation & Sports$116,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPARAKLESIS INC — $127,500 over 1y, 42% of budgetINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $127,500 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetADDICTION TREATMENT SERVICES INC — $123,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC — $123,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetFriendship Community Center Inc — $116,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $116,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHOMPSONVILLE AREA REVITALIZATION PROJEC — $116,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN — $113,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetDOLLY PARTONS IMAGINATION LIBRARY GTR — $113,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetFreedom Builders of America — $113,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetSINGLE MOMM — $112,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCANDID — $112,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GARDEN THEATER — $112,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOGNITION — $110,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetGRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA INC — $110,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCrosshatch Center for Art & Ecology — $110,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - GRAND TRAVERSE REGION — $105,334 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetNewtons Road Northwest — $105,333 over 1y, 60% of budget
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.

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.

Grand Traverse Region…Rotary Charities of T…Oleson FoundationThe Art and Mary Schm…The Broad Family Foun…Les & Ann Biederman F…Harry a and Margaret …United Way of Northwe…Dte Energy FoundationConsumers Energy Foun…The Carl a Lemcool Me…Jim and Diana Huckle …
Grand Traverse Regional Community FoundationMI45.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Oleson Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · The Broad Family Foundation · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · United Way of Northwest Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Carl a Lemcool Memorial Foundation Inc · Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundation

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 Impact 100 of Traverse City Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%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 · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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