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Lj Midge Verplank Community Impact Fund

The corporation is organized to support the grand haven area community foundation and will support the greatest needs of the west michigan region including support to positively impact ottawa county and muskegon county.

$500k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.1MHuman Services$210kHealth$40kEducation$30kEnvironment$25kFood & Nutrition$25kEmployment$22kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $219k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $273k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHORELINE FOUNDATION FOR HIGH SCHOOL SAILING$62,128
KIDS FOOD BASKET$60,000
OTTAWA COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION$51,000
VILLAGE OF SPRING LAKE$50,000
LAKESHORE ADVANTAGE FOUNDATION$50,000
GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 3W234W$42,090
AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN$40,000
HARBOR HOSPICE FOUNDATION$40,000
LOVE IN ACTION$20,000
OUT SIDE IN INC$16,500
TALENTFIRST (TALENT 2025)$16,000
GRACIOUS GROUNDS$15,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY$15,000
SPRING LAKE CREW CLUB INC$14,600
THE LITTLE RED HOUSE$8,176
02The need
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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 (FY23–25, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TRI-CITIES FAMILY YMCA: $100k → 8%TRI-CITIES FAMILY YMCA: $100k → 8%LOVE IN ACTION: $20k → 8%OUT SIDE IN INC: $20k → 8%OUT SIDE IN INC: $17k → 8%THE PEOPLE CENTER: $10k → 8%THE LITTLE RED HOUSE: $8k → 8%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
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
Michigan Christian Home

The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…

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2
Great Lakes Bay Health Centers

To provide high quality health care to individuals and community groups in Saginaw, Bay, and other nearby counties. Services are provided without regard to race, beliefs or ability to pay.

Health
3
Muskegon County Cooperating Churches

To minister to the physical, emotional and spirtual needs of people within the muskegon area, without regard to race, creed, color or religious affiliation.

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4
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
5
Muskegon Sports Council

Muskegon sports council mission is to provide quality, reliable, year-round recreational sports activities and programs to both muskegon county residents and visitors to the area. to uphold the strict environmental guidelines set forth by…

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6
Habitat for Humanity of Michigan Inc

Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.

Housing & Shelter
7
Michigan Community Capital

The mission of michigan community capital is to facilitate low-income community investment in michigan. these investments will spur job creation and economic growth in low income communities across the state.

Community Improvement
8
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
9
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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10
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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11
Mgh Family Health Center Muskegon Family Care

Muskegon family care is a federally qualified health center with medical and dental clinics reaching out to uninsured and underinsured patients in muskegon county.

Health
12
Michigan Future Inc

To be a source of new ideas on how michigan's people, enterprises, and communities can succeed in the information age.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Spring Lake Crew Club Inc. 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

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 23 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
7/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,102,090 · PhilanthropyGRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY: $60,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN - TRI-CITIES MICHIGAN: $200,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHR…OUT SIDE IN INC: $36,500 · Human ServicesOUT SIDE IN INCLOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES: $20,000 · Human ServicesLOVE INC OF THE…THE PEOPLE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $8,176 · Human ServicesSHORELINE FOUNDATION FOR HIGH SCHOOL SAILING: $62,128 · OtherSHORELINE FOUN…VILLAGE OF SPRING LAKE: $50,000 · OtherVILLAGE OF SPR…GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherGRAND VALLEY S…OTTAWA COUNTY ISD: $21,573 · OtherOTTAWA COUNTY …TRI-CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $20,000 · OtherTRI-CITIES ARE…READ MUSKEGON: $30,000 · OtherREAD MUSKEGONBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE MUSKEGON LAKESHORE: $20,200 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS…EXTENDED GRACE: $20,000 · OtherEXTENDED GRACEKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $60,000 · Food & NutritionAGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN: $40,000 · Food & NutritionLAKESHORE ADVANTAGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTALENTFIRST INC FKA TALENT FIRST INC: $16,000 · Community ImprovementOTTAWA COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $51,000 · Recreation & SportsSpring Lake Crew Club Inc: $14,600 · Recreation & SportsHARBOR HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Health
Philanthropy$1,177,090Human Services$274,676Other$248,901Food & Nutrition$100,000Community Improvement$66,000Recreation & Sports$65,600Health$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,102,090 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN - TRI-CITIES MICHIGAN: $200,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOTTAWA COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $51,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetAGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOUT SIDE IN INC: $36,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetREAD MUSKEGON: $30,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE MUSKEGON LAKESHORE: $20,200 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEXTENDED GRACE: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRI-CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTALENTFIRST INC FKA TALENT FIRST INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGRACIOUS GROUNDS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% 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.

Grand Haven Area Comm…Frey FoundationCommunity Foundation …Consumers Energy Foun…Steven and Kathryn Ba…Folkert Family Founda…The Community Foundat…Grand Rapids Communit…DTE Energy FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…
Grand Haven Area Community Foundation IncMI24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Frey Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Consumers Energy Foundation · Steven and Kathryn Bandstra Foundation · Folkert Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Lj Midge Verplank Community Impact Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lj Midge Verplank Community Impact Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    How do I get to Lj Midge Verplank Community Impact Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Lj Midge Verplank Community Impact Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 23 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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