· Public charity
Lakeshore Advantage Corporation
The organization strives to foster and implement innovative strategies for sound economic development in the lakeshore area to enhance the region's quality of life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $11,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DISHER CORP | $11,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 58% 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 +170% since the first grant, against +79% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 61 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- TPTHE PICKLE BACK LLC2× · 2020–2021 · $40k
- SDSPOTLIGHT DANCE ACADEMY2× · 2020–2021 · $34k
- 2F24 FITCOUNTRY FITNESS LLC2× · 2020–2021 · $31k
Funded once
- OCOTTAWA COUNTY ISDone grant, 2022 · $54k
- GRGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $50k
- AAALLEGAN AREA EDUCATION SERVICE AGENone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
To perpetuate, propagate, & protect game fish, wildlife & conserve our natural resources. To educate the public on how to conserve our resources.
Operate a recreation center to enhance and improve the quality of life for its members and area residents.
Social & recreational activities for members and thier families to raise funds for moose charities & local charities
Social & recreational activities
Operation and maintenance of social club in manistee, michigan 49660
Our mission is to provide a constant source of support and understanding to the lgbtq community of the greater holland area. we seek to create a community in which all persons are afforded equal rights and opportunities. we strive to…
Unites its members in the bonds of fraternity, benevolence, and charity. It is accomplished through a year round schedule of recreational & social actvities for the members and their families
We offer indoor and outdoor educational programs, camping, and retreat facilities for churches, family groups, schools, and other organizations.
Holistic Christian Activities Youth summer and winter camps; rental of facilities to various church, school, family groups; adult retreats.
Operate and maintain public golf course in the detroit lakes area; provide recreation for all ages
To provide facilities for nonprofit organizations to enjoy the experience of nature in michigan, promote ourdoor education, and to offer camping enjoyment to the people of midland county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Assn - Tri-Cities Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Central Camping Association 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 385 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · De Witt Families Conduit Foundation · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Slikkers Foundation · Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation · Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance · Pat & Herb Eldean Family Foundation · The Mignon Sherwood Delano Fund · Howard Miller Foundation · Small Business Association of Michigan · Jim and Ginger Jurries 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 Lakeshore Advantage Corporation 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.