· Public charity
Middle Michigan Development Corporation
To retain and attract business in clare and isabella counties.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $29,367 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $37,224 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,857 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LONGER TABLE | $19,697 |
| TRITERRA LLC | $9,670 |
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 (FY20–21, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +107% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- MCMidland Center for the Arts Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +107%
- MCMIDLAND COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY2× · 2020–2021 · $18k · revenue +315%
- ICISABELLA CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER2× · 2020–2021 · $17k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- CMCENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $100k
- MMMID MICHIGAN COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $40k
- MCMICHIGAN CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION & RESEARCH TRUST AGREEMENTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +36%
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 promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
As a business advocate, the mission of the midland area chamber of commerce is to develop, advance, and promote the economic, industrial, commercial, professional, cultural and civic welfare of the midland area.
The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Community development
Chamber of commerce
Our mission is to promote and enrich quality of life for older adults and those who care for them by collaboratively providing meaningful services and opportunities.
To provide the leadership necessary to advance the civic, commercial, industrial and overall interest of the business and professional community.
The mission of the Davison Area Chamber of Commerce is to grow into a hub for local businesses, churches, organizations and community events. The Davison Chamber believes that all businesses are important in our area. The goal of the…
Mission is to provide events, programs, and services that have significant value to members.
To promote business, economic development, and community development within the greater macon area.
To advance tourism, assist in new and existing business development and promote economic, professional, cultural and civic interests in the iowa great lakes area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Art Reach of Mid Michigan and the most unlike its peers is American Legion Post 295. 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 44 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 488 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MICHIGAN CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION & RESEARCH TRUST AGREEMENT ↗
- Who funds Midland Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds Haiti Foundation Against Poverty ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLADWIN COMMUNITY ARENA ↗
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: Midland Area Community Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Middle Michigan Development Corporation 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.