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Manistee County Community Foundation
To facilitate, promote, and serve philanthropy and permanent endowments to enhance the quality of life in manistee county.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of MANISTEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 29 grants below total $721,964 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $785,322 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $63,358 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 $10k9 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $263k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF MANISTEE | $184,600 |
| VILLAGE OF BEAR LAKE | $99,180 |
| ARCADIA TOWNSHIP | $61,200 |
| MANISTEE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $55,003 |
| PLEASANT VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $40,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MANISTEE COUNTY | $25,000 |
| MANISTEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $25,000 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $21,775 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN | $20,000 |
| SHORELINE CYCLING CLUB | $19,490 |
| UNITED WAY OF MANISTEE COUNTY | $15,155 |
| CITY OF MANISTEE HOUSING COMMISSION | $13,500 |
| MUNSON HEALTHCARE MANISTEE HOSPITAL | $11,000 |
| MANISTEE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $11,000 |
| VILLAGE OF ONEKAMA | $10,876 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $265k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Manistee County Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 11 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- GTGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY2× · 2018–2020 · $237k · revenue +93%
- MCMANISTEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING5× · 2019–2025 · $170k · revenue +22%
- AYARMORY YOUTH PROJECT5× · 2019–2024 · $163k · revenue +181%
Funded once
- NNNETWORKS NORTHWESTone grant, 2021 · $390k
- WCWESTSHORE COMMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $212k
- DTDICKSON TOWNSHIPone grant, 2023 · $121k
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 educate the public on the history of Manistee County
To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.
The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.
Member programs/services, economic development
To preserve, record and maintain the historical information of the area between michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, known as michilimackinac.
Business Promotion
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
To promote accessible, equitable, and just investments in energy efficiency and clean energy to support healthy and thriving communities.
The Historical Society of Michigan will foster in citizens a deeper understanding of and appreciation for all Michigan history through programs and publications; preserve and promote Michigan history through conferences, publications,…
To tell the story of the automobile industry and labor heritage of southeast & central michigan.
Maintain historical museum
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manistee County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tahquamenon Education Foundation. 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 23 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 85 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 GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MANISTEE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds ARMORY YOUTH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MANISTEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SEEDS ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR ECONOMIC SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds Pleasant Valley Community Center ↗
- Who funds Friends of Orchard Beach State Park ↗
- Who funds Northwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC VOGUE THEATRE OF MANISTEE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RAMSDELL ↗
- Who funds KALEVA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MANISTEE RECREATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
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: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Cadillac Area Community Foundation · Nickless Family Charitable Foundation · Charlevoix County Community Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Frey Foundation · Dte Energy 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 Manistee County 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.
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