How much did LENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

Employment$6.3MPhilanthropy$2.1MHuman Services$1.0MArts & Culture$740kYouth Development$677kEducation$314kHousing & Shelter$190kAnimals$145kCommunity Improvement$143kOther$5.5M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

fraternalbenefitsgleaner insuranceintegrityrespectleadershipcorporation

2019

davecorporationsponsoredadoptionscholarshipsemma bixbybixby medical

2020

emma bixbybixby medicalliberal artscapitallivescenteredshelby

2021

workingsafetyscholarshipsadvocacyshelbylivesclassical

2022

meetreligiousbuildchurchshelbyclassicaldistrict

2023

emma bixbybixby medicalpregnancychristlearnfood pantryadults

2024

woodworkingreligousreligiousblissfieldpregnancyneedyjob training

2025

pregnancyneedyjob traininglearnchristtecumsehadults

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 39 grants

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

$11,060

Median grant

States reached

$46M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$16M · 58 repeat orgs$627k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$16M

$598k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+25%

Still filing today

72%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther

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

BA
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE
9× · 2017–2025 · $677k · revenue +100%
CO
CROSWELL OPERA HOUSE
9× · 2017–2025 · $664k · revenue +62%
CC
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LENAWEE CO
9× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +57%

Funded once

TF
TOURNAMENTS FOR CHARITYgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $65k · revenue +324%
LL
LAUNCH LENAWEE
one grant, 2019 · $65k · revenue -3% · 25% of their budget
HM
HERRICK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUND
one grant, 2017 · $40k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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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Lenawee Christian Ministries

Lenawee christian ministries operates as a public charity and is the parent organization that supports the mission of lenawee christian school and the christian family centre.

Religion

Tecumseh Chamber of Commerce

To promote lenawee county area businesses

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Lapeer County Community Foundation

To provide grants to individuals and organizations of lapeer county for the purpose of enhancing the quality of life

Philanthropy

Mclaren Lapeer Region

Provide health care services to the community and provide various health promotion events.

Health

Kiwanis of Michigan Foundation

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Agricultural Society of Lenawee

Conduct the lenawee county fair to promote agricultural and horticultural activities in lenawee county.

Arts & Culture

Lenawee Economic Development Corp

to stimulate economic development, attract new businesses, grow established businesses and support entrepreneurial endeavors in Lenawee County

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Heart of West Michigan United Way

To impact lives in west michigan by energizing and inspiring people and organizations to make a difference through donations and volunteerism. the most significant activity is raising funds so agency providers and internal programs can…

Philanthropy

Leelanau Township Community Foundation

To support public charities in the leelanau township area.

Philanthropy

Leelanau Conservancy

To conserve the land, water, and scenic character of leelanau county, michigan.

Environment

Agewell Services of West Michigan

Agewell services mission is to promote healthy aging and maximize independence through nutrition, wellness, and supportive services in the community.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lenawee Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Safelite Autoglass Foundation Amended. 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/96

the rest of the field

11%

559/5,119

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.

05the grantee network

63 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

62/63

Grantees still filing

38/63

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Employment$6,326,634Other$5,928,819Philanthropy$2,054,297Human Services$1,046,365Arts & Culture$739,545Youth Development$677,035Education$313,993

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.

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.

Farver FoundationMI35.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Farver Foundation · Tlc Community Credit Union · Consumers Energy Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Maurice&Dorothy Stubnitz Foundation · The S L Hickman Family Foundation · Bell Trust · Kiwanis Club of Adrian 2396 · Douglas and Mary Kapnick Family · Sage Foundation · The Murray Family Foundation · The Robert E & Rosemary Price

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 organisation 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KAPPA KAPPA EPSILON SORORITY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237173229 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on KAPPA KAPPA EPSILON SORORITY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 99% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Lenawee Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lenawee Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

63 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lenawee Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph

LENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

63 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lenawee Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph