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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mackinac Island Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mackinac Island Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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