· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DISHER CORP | $11,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +170% since the first grant, against +80% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lakeshore Advantage Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lakeshore Advantage Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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