· Community foundation
Lapeer County Community Foundation
To provide grants to individuals and organizations of lapeer county for the purpose of enhancing the quality of life
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $155,846 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $538,937 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $383,091 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELGA | $26,835 |
| LAPEER COUNTY KIND | $20,988 |
| LAPEER COUNTY ISD | $20,104 |
| LAPEER COMM SCHOOLS | $19,447 |
| FAMILY LITERACY CENTER | $15,942 |
| NON PROFIT NETWORK | $7,215 |
| SKYLINE CAMP & RETREAT CENTER | $7,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LAPEER COUNTY | $6,136 |
| IMLAY CITY COMM SCHOOLS | $5,821 |
| CHATFIELD SCHOOL | $5,500 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF LAPEER CO | $5,300 |
| MACKINAW ISLAND SCOUT SERVICE TROOP | $5,209 |
| ALMONT COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $5,200 |
| LAPEER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,149 |
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 (FY22–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- ECELGA CREDIT UNION3× · 2021–2024 · $96k · revenue +72%
- LCLAPEER COUNTY K I N D KIDS IN NEW DIRECTIONS2× · 2023–2024 · $33k · revenue +20%
- FLFAMILY LITERACY CENTER2× · 2022–2024 · $33k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- KCKIWANIS CLUB OF LAPEER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $65k
- FRFlint River Watershed Coalitiongraduatedone grant, 2018 · $29k · revenue +150%
- MTMARATHON TOWNSHIPone grant, 2020 · $25k
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 advance housing stability and affordable opportunities for low income people especially those in crisis or at risk individuals and families within Lenawee County
To lead and coordinate economic development throughout lapeer county and to provide a link between federal, state and local governments and businesses interested in locating or expanding in lapeer county michigan. the lapeer development…
The lapeer area chamber of commerce is committed to continiously promoting & fostering the business climate to enhance the quality of life in our community.
To communicate the gospel of jesus christ to women, men, and children affected by an unplanned pregnancy and provide spiritual, emotional, physical, and educational support.
To provide housing and end of life care and support to terminally ill individuals.
To provide grants to individuals and organizations of lapeer county for the purpose of enhancing the quality of life
To promote lenawee county as a destination providing contemporary amenities to transient guests in a historical and cultural setting for the economic benefit of the community.
to stimulate economic development, attract new businesses, grow established businesses and support entrepreneurial endeavors in Lenawee County
Liaa is a community service organization working to increase the sustainability of communities and expand civic engagement. our mission statement is: helping people to shape better communities through: participation, education, information…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Home construction or renovation for low income individuals and families in Lenawee County
Education of young people in the Montessori method
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Lapeer County and the most unlike its peers is Young Musicians Community. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 44 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 ELGA CREDIT UNION ↗
- Who funds LOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST OF GREATER LAPEER ↗
- Who funds LAPEER COUNTY K I N D KIDS IN NEW DIRECTIONS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Flint River Watershed Coalition ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LAPEER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE REFUGE HOMELESS SHELTER OF LAPEER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF GREATER LAPEER ↗
- Who funds LAPEER COUNTY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BANBURY CROSS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds 42STRONG ↗
- Who funds SEVEN PONDS NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAPEER TEAM WORK INC ↗
- Who funds Human Development Commission ↗
- Who funds LAPEER COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP & STUDENT LOAN FUND ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds SKYLINE CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIONS VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH CAMP ↗
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: Four County Community Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Michigan College Access Network · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Amazonsmile 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 Lapeer 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.