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Mackinac Island Community Foundation
The MACKINAC ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION promotes the general well-being of island residents and visitors, by working in community partnerships to generate endowed and un-endowed funds and stimulate community-wide initiatives.
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.
The 19 grants below total $743,557 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $836,753 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $93,196 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $212k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $517k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MACKINAC ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER | $146,238 |
| CHEBOYGAN LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC MACKINAC EMS | $123,809 |
| WAWASHKAMO GOLF CLUB | $65,460 |
| CITY OF MACKINAC ISLAND | $63,261 |
| CHIPPEWA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $59,412 |
| MACKINAC HORSEMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC | $59,159 |
| STE ANNE'S CHURCH | $28,153 |
| CITY OF MACKINAC ISLAND - PUBLIC LIBRARY | $27,415 |
| MACKINAC ARTS COUNCIL | $25,500 |
| MACKINAC STRAITS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| REHAB AND MOBILITY SYSTEMS | $22,886 |
| MACKINAC CONNECT FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| STRAITS PRIDE | $14,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $13,559 |
| MACKINAC STRAITS RAPTOR WATCH | $13,336 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of your 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.
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 +100% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- MIMACKINAC ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $979k · revenue +60% · 36% of their budget
- WGWAWASHKAMO GOLF CLUB5× · 2020–2025 · $573k · revenue +100%
- CLCHEBOYGAN LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC5× · 2020–2025 · $235k · revenue +379%
Funded once
- MAMACKINAC ASSOCIATESone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -4%
- MMMACKINAC MARINE RESCUEone grant, 2021 · $31k
- NCNORTHLAND COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -14%
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 receive and administer funds exclusively for the benefit of and further any and all charitable, scientific, and educational activities in which the Mackinac Center, a Michigan nonprofit corporation (DBA Mackinac Center for Public…
To preserve, record and maintain the historical information of the area between michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, known as michilimackinac.
The organization's purpose is to support mackinac straits health system in order to improve the health status of the communities it serves.
To restore, repair, and refurbish the state-owned lansing and mackinac island official residences of the governor of the state of michigan; to restore, repair, and refurbish other buildings and developments of historical significance to…
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…
Uniting citizens to conserve, protect and enhance michigan's natural resources and outdoor heritage
To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.
Our mission is to be the most respected and influential source of public policy research, analysis and education in michigan. the mackinac center for public policy is committed to providing the free-market perspective, resulting in…
To promote cooperative medical services throughout marquette county and the upper peninsula of michigan that would provide a continuum of care for qualifying, uninsured, and/or under-insured persons.
To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.
Music education programs in Minnesota and Wisconsin that include intense residential chamber music programs for talented young string players and talented young woodwind and horn players; a residency program in the Twin Cities, public…
Mackinac Economic Development is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The organization's primary purpose is to promote economic development in underserved and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mackinac Straits Health System Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northland College. 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 19 years old; the field is 22. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
16 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. 16 of the 34 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 MACKINAC ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WAWASHKAMO GOLF CLUB ↗
- Who funds CHEBOYGAN LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC HORSEMEN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EUP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE I ↗
- Who funds Starling Shakespeare Company Inc ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC STRAITS HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds MSRW Mackinaw Straits Raptor watch ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
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: The George G Fund · Trivisonno Foundation · Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation · Pulte Family Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Mackinac Island 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.