· Community foundation
Lenawee Community Foundation
We connect people who care with causes that matter, bringing health, happiness, and hope to our community, now and forever.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $385k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $568k
- $250k+1 grant · $5.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALIGN CENTER FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPM | $5,274,235 |
| CITY OF TECUMSEH | $241,200 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE | $226,551 |
| CROSWELL OPERA HOUSE | $100,600 |
| HOSPICE OF LENAWEE | $30,831 |
| DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION | $27,486 |
| LENAWEE COUNTY EDUCATION FND | $26,897 |
| LENAWEE HUMANE SOCIETY | $24,845 |
| HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER | $24,323 |
| SHELBY COUNTY UNITED FUND | $22,920 |
| DAILY BREAD OF LENAWEE | $21,852 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LENAWEE CO | $21,500 |
| SHARE THE WARMTH | $20,550 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $20,493 |
| HOUSING HELP OF LENAWEE | $20,255 |
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, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +37% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 3 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $677k · revenue +100%
- COCROSWELL OPERA HOUSE & FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $664k · revenue +62%
- CCCatholic Charities of Jackson9× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- TFTOURNAMENTS FOR CHARITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $65k · revenue +67%
- AAADRIAN ARMORY COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $65k · revenue -20% · 25% of their budget
- HMHERRICK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDone grant, 2017 · $40k
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 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
To promote lenawee area businesses
To provide grants to individuals and organizations of lapeer county for the purpose of enhancing the quality of life
Education of young people in the Montessori method
To facilitate connecting the Leelanau county community of seniors with services and activities that promote a healthy independent and fulfilled lifestyle while aging.
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
Conduct the lenawee county fair to promote agricultural and horticultural activities in lenawee county. this associations only activity with the exception of off season rentals and storage revenue.
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 offer education, assistance and resources to women and families in the greater lansing area.
Emergency assistance in the form of food, utilities, rent, etc.
Form 990, Part III, Line 1 Organizations MissionFarm Bureau is a free independent, non-governmental, voluntary organization of farm families united for the purpose of analyzing their problems and formulating action to achieve educational…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lenawee Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Safelite Foundation. 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 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 44% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 100 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 ALIGN CENTER FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds LENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE INC ↗
- Who funds CROSWELL OPERA HOUSE & FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Jackson ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF LENAWEE ↗
- Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ADRIAN SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Emma L Bixby Hospital Auxiliary ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF LENAWEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LENAWEE EMERGENCY AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds LENAWEE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Lenawee County ↗
- Who funds KAPPA KAPPA EPSILON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LENAWEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Lenawee Humane Society ↗
- Who funds DAILY BREAD OF LENAWEE INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF LENAWEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHARE THE WARMTH ↗
- Who funds SAFELITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Lenawee County ↗
- Who funds ADRIAN COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds LENAWEE COUNTY MISSION ↗
- Who funds Child Care Network ↗
- Who funds LENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLISSFIELD FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEARNING CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds TOURNAMENTS FOR CHARITY ↗
- Who funds ADRIAN ARMORY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
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: Farver Foundation · Maurice&Dorothy Stubnitz Foundation · Tlc Community Credit Union · Douglas and Mary Kapnick Family Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · The S L Hickman Family Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Sage Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Adrian 2396 · Bell Trust · The Murray Family Foundation · Knapp Family 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 Lenawee 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.