· Community foundation
Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd
To enhance the quality of life for all citizens of Isabella County, now and for generations to come, by attracting and holding permanent, endowed funds from a wide range of donors, addressing the needs through grant making, and providing leadership on key community issues.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $327,329 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $726,454 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $399,125 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 $10k7 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MyMichigan Health Foundation | $109,609 |
| RISE Advocacy Inc | $42,685 |
| Friends of the Broadway | $18,000 |
| First United Methodist Church | $15,000 |
| Life Choices of Central Michigan | $14,491 |
| Isabella County Restoration House | $13,179 |
| Christian Counseling of Mid Michigan | $13,000 |
| United Way of Gratiot and Isabella Counties | $11,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House of Western Michigan | $10,000 |
| St Johns Episcopal Church | $10,000 |
| People Helping People of Isabella County | $10,000 |
| Renaissance Public School Academy | $10,000 |
| Chippewa Watershed Conservancy | $9,647 |
| Sleepy Dog Books Foundation Inc | $7,723 |
| Issue Media Group | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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 12% of Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd’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 +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 7 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER CENTRAL MICHIGAN4× · 2017–2024 · $143k · revenue +31%
- ICISABELLA COUNTY RESTORATION HOUSE6× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +863%
- LCLIFE CHOICES OF CENTRAL MICHIGAN6× · 2018–2024 · $105k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- FTFREMONT TOWNSHIP OF ISABELLA COUNTone grant, 2021 · $29k
- ICISABELLA COUNTY YOUTH & FARM FAIR SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue -28%
- CCCOMMUNITY CANCER SERVICES INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -10%
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.
The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
To retain and attract business in clare and isabella counties.
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
To promote access to healthcare for all residents of the central michigan area, regardless of ability to pay, insurance status, or income level; to improve the health status of the underserved population of the central michigan area; to…
Social welfare and issue advocacy
To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.
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.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Provide no cost care and no cost room and board for the terminally ill.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mymichigan Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 61 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 WILLIAM AND JANET STRICKLER NONPROFIT CENTER ↗
- Who funds MYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA COUNTY RESTORATION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHOICES OF CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA WATERSHED CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Mount Pleasant Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S AID SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COUNSELING OF MID MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE CARE STORE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS OUTREACH OF ISABELLA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BROADWAY INC ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Villages of Michigan Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLOTHING INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL TREATMENT SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA COUNTY YOUTH & FARM FAIR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COMPASSION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CANCER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MID-MICHIGAN INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK ↗
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: United Way of Greater Central Michigan · Midland Area Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · The We Martin Foundation · The Morey Foundation · Fabiano Foundation · Gratiot County Community Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Jx Gives Back Family Foundation Inc
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 Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd 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.