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Leelanau Township Community Foundation

To support public charities in the leelanau township area and award educational scholarships.

$253k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$389kHousing & Shelter$237kArts & Culture$194kCommunity Improvement$156kFood & Nutrition$146kEnvironment$119kHealth$61kHuman Services$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $198,325, the rows itemized in this filing. The $252,628 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $54,303 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $137k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER FOR GRAND TRAVERSE AREA$10,000
CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE$10,000
FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
5LOAVES2FISH NORTHERN MICHIGAN$9,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE: $10k → 7%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER FOR GRAND TRAVERSE AREA: $10k → 7%LEELANAU COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%LEELANAU COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%LEELANAU COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%LEELANAU COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%LEELANAU COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%SHARECARE OF LEELANAU: $5k → 7%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER: $26k → 7%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 7%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 7%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 12 repeat orgs$363k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
14

Total granted

$1.0M
$263k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+10%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LC
    LEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $142k · revenue +355%
  • NC
    Northport Community Arts Center
    9× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +4%
  • FC
    Friendship Community Center Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $63k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • HN
    HOMESTRETCH NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +396%
  • VO
    VILLAGE OF NORTHPORT
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • NM
    Northwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnershipgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +472%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Little Traverse Conservancy Conservation Trust

To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.

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2
Visit Lenawee

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.

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3
Leelanau Early Childhood Development Corporation

Assist parents with the care and development of their preschool children (Parenting Communities) and to establish home childcare businesses for infants and toddlers (ITCS)

Youth Development
4
Lake Leelanau Community Association

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,…

Community Improvement
5
Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation
Community Improvement
6
Kenai Peninsula Homelessness Coalition

Providing housing

Housing & Shelter
7
Leech Lake Area Chamber of Commerce

Attract and inform visitors to and about the leech lake area.

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8
Lenawee County Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Copper Country Community Arts Council

To promote art awareness.

Arts & Culture
10
Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce

Member programs/services, economic development

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11
Crisp Point Light Historical Society

To preserve, restore, and maintain the buildings and grounds known as crisp point lighthouse located on county road 412, mcmillan township, luce county, michigan.

Arts & Culture
12
Hospitality in the Name of Christ

To provide a Mens emergency homeless shelter in Ludington Michigan

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leelanau Reach; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHPORT PUBLIC SCHOOL: $340,442 · OtherNORTHPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $143,738 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT: $77,500 · OtherVENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENTLEELANAU TOWNSHIP: $68,601 · OtherLEELANAU TOWNSHIPIndividual grant recipient: $55,269 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVILLAGE OF NORTHPORT: $40,000 · OtherLEELANAU REACH: $30,000 · Other+8 more: $110,005 · Other+8 moreNorthport Community Arts Center: $111,904 · Arts & CultureNorthport Comm…NORTHPORT ARTS ASSOCIATION: $39,200 · Arts & CultureNORTHPORT ARTS…GRAND TRAVERSE LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM: $22,795 · Arts & CultureGRAND TRAVERSE…LEELANAU UNCAGED CORPORATION: $8,580 · Arts & CultureLEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC: $141,997 · ReligionLEELANAU C…Friendship Community Center Inc: $63,228 · Human ServicesFriendship…Leelanau County Cancer Foundation: $55,000 · Human ServicesLeelanau C…WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER GRAND TRAVERSE AREA: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S RE…ShareCare of Leelanau Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesHOMESTRETCH NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterNorthwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterLEELANAU CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · EnvironmentNEW COMMUNITY VISION: $11,909 · EnvironmentLeelanau Energy: $10,000 · EnvironmentPENINSULA HOUSING: $25,000 · Community ImprovementOMENA VILLAGE PRESERVATION ASSOC: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$865,555Arts & Culture$182,479Religion$141,997Human Services$133,228Housing & Shelter$80,000Environment$36,909Community Improvement$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC: $141,997 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetNorthport Community Arts Center: $111,904 over 9y, 21% of budgetVENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT: $77,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetFriendship Community Center Inc: $63,228 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetLeelanau County Cancer Foundation: $55,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetHOMESTRETCH NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNORTHPORT ARTS ASSOCIATION: $39,200 over 3y, 22% of budgetNorthwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership: $30,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLEELANAU CHILDREN'S CENTER: $26,710 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPENINSULA HOUSING: $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM: $22,795 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetPOWER BOOK BAGS: $19,769 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetLEELANAU CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW COMMUNITY VISION: $11,909 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER GRAND TRAVERSE AREA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOMENA VILLAGE PRESERVATION ASSOC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLEELANAU UNCAGED CORPORATION: $8,580 over 1y, 12% of budgetShareCare of Leelanau Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget
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.

Rotary Charities of T…Grand Traverse Region…Wolf Robe FoundationChetcuti Evans Founda…Robet Foundation IncHp FoundationOleson FoundationConsumers Energy Foun…Les & Ann Biederman F…The Art and Mary Schm…The Carls FoundationVanguard Charitable E…
Rotary Charities of Traverse CityMI26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Leelanau Township Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leelanau Township Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%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 · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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