· Community foundation
Leelanau Township Community Foundation
To support public charities in the leelanau township area and award educational scholarships.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $198,325 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $252,628 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $54,303 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEELANAU TOWNSHIP | $51,677 |
| NORTHPORT PUBLIC SCHOOL | $27,900 |
| NORTHPORT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $22,324 |
| LEELANAU TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT | $16,924 |
| LEELANAU COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| NORTHPORT ARTS ASSOCIATION | $13,000 |
| OMENA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $12,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER FOR GRAND TRAVERSE AREA | $10,000 |
| 5LOAVES2FISH NORTHERN MICHIGAN | $9,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- LCLEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC5× · 2017–2024 · $142k · revenue +355%
- NCNorthport Community Arts Center9× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +4%
- FCFriendship Community Center Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $63k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- HNHOMESTRETCH NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +396%
- VOVILLAGE OF NORTHPORTone grant, 2023 · $40k
- LRLEELANAU REACHone grant, 2018 · $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 protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.
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.
Assist parents with the care and development of their preschool children (Parenting Communities) and to establish home childcare businesses for infants and toddlers (ITCS)
Promote appreciation and celebration of the lake leelanau community spirit while raising funds to enhance our community landscape and parks; preserve and enhance the natural beauty of our lands and waters; and help improve the health,…
Providing housing
Attract and inform visitors to and about the leech lake area.
The lenawee county historical society, inc. is a non-profit organization whose primary purpose is the operation of a museum for the preservation of local historical artifacts.
To promote art awareness.
Member programs/services, economic development
To preserve, restore, and maintain the buildings and grounds known as crisp point lighthouse located on county road 412, mcmillan township, luce county, michigan.
To provide a Mens emergency homeless shelter in Ludington Michigan
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leelanau Reach and the most unlike its peers is Omena Village Preservation Assoc. 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 21 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 31 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 LEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds Northport Community Arts Center ↗
- Who funds VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Friendship Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Leelanau County Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOMESTRETCH NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHPORT ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU REACH ↗
- Who funds Northwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA HOUSING ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds POWER BOOK BAGS ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NEW COMMUNITY VISION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER GRAND TRAVERSE AREA ↗
- Who funds OMENA VILLAGE PRESERVATION ASSOC ↗
- Who funds Leelanau Energy ↗
- Who funds 5LOAVES2FISHNMI ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU UNCAGED CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ShareCare of Leelanau Inc ↗
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: Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Wolf Robe Foundation · Chetcuti Evans Foundation Co Anna Albanice · Robet Foundation Inc · Hp Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · The Carls Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Leelanau Township 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.