· Community foundation
Manistee County Community Foundation
To facilitate, promote, and serve philanthropy and permanent endowments to enhance the quality of life in manistee county.
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 $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Manistee County Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 90%.
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 +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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 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
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 85 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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Manistee County Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Manistee County Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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