How much does Lenawee Community Foundation give?

Lenawee Community Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $6,420,369 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Lenawee Community Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (49%), Human Services (9%), Public Benefit (8%).

Who are Lenawee Community Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Align Center for Workforce Development Inc ($6.3M), Lenawee Chamber Foundation ($1.9M), City of Tecumseh ($1.2M).

Does Lenawee Community Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Lenawee Community Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farver Foundation, Maurice&Dorothy Stubnitz Foundation, Tlc Community Credit Union.

Where is Lenawee Community Foundation based?

Lenawee Community Foundation is based in MI.

Lenawee Community Foundation

Lenawee Community Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$6.4M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5.3M

Largest

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.

Employment$8.3MHuman Services$1.5MPublic Benefit$1.3MEducation$1.2MArts & Culture$1.1MYouth Development$690kHealth$646kFood & Nutrition$557kOther$0

02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$16M · 57 repeat orgs$611k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$16M

$588k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+5%

Still filing today

72%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther

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

BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $677k · revenue +100%
CO
CROSWELL OPERA HOUSE & FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $664k · revenue +62%
CC
Catholic Charities of Jackson
9× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +57%

Funded once

TF
TOURNAMENTS FOR CHARITYgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $65k · revenue +67%
AA
ADRIAN ARMORY COMMUNITY CENTER
one grant, 2019 · $65k · revenue -20% · 25% of their budget
HM
HERRICK MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUND
one grant, 2017 · $40k

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.

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 Economic Development Corp

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

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Tecumseh Chamber of Commerce

To promote lenawee 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

Montessori Childrens House of Lenawee Inc

Education of young people in the Montessori method

Human Services

ShareCare of Leelanau Inc

To facilitate connecting the Leelanau county community of seniors with services and activities that promote a healthy independent and fulfilled lifestyle while aging.

Human Services

Leelanau Conservancy

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.

Environment

Agricultural Society of Lenawee County

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.

Arts & Culture

Lapeer Area Chamber of Commerce

The lapeer area chamber of commerce is committed to continiously promoting & fostering the business climate to enhance the quality of life in our community.

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Shared Pregnancy Womens Center

To offer education, assistance and resources to women and families in the greater lansing area.

Civil Rights

Mi Lewis Social Services

Emergency assistance in the form of food, utilities, rent, etc.

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Lenawee County Farm Bureau

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lenawee Community Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 100 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

62/63

Grantees still filing

41/63

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Farver FoundationMI38.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lenawee Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lenawee Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home