How much does Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd give?

Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd reported 19 itemized grants totaling $327,329, out of $726,454 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Health (24%), Arts & Culture (16%).

Who are Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: William and Janet Strickler Nonprofit Center ($1.2M), Mymichigan Health Foundation ($808k), Issue Media Group LLC ($373k).

Does Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Central Michigan, Midland Area Community Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation.

Where is Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd based?

Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd is based in MI.

Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd

Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$726k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$110k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.5MHealth$1.1MArts & Culture$729kHousing & Shelter$263kPublic Benefit$178kPhilanthropy$156kEducation$155kRecreation & Sports$142kOther$0

02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 19 grants below total $327,329, the rows itemized in this filing. The $726,454 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $399,125 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $50k
$10k–50k11 grants · $167k
$50k–250k1 grant · $110k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$33M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
St Johns Episcopal Church	$10,000
Ronald McDonald House of Western Michigan	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd’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%.

Mt Pleasant Area Community Fndlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.3M · 33 repeat orgs$315k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.3M

$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

Still filing today

67%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

UW
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CENTRAL MICHIGAN
4× · 2017–2024 · $143k · revenue +31%
IC
ISABELLA COUNTY RESTORATION HOUSE
6× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +863%
LC
LIFE CHOICES OF CENTRAL MICHIGAN
6× · 2018–2024 · $105k · revenue +40%

Funded once

FT
FREMONT TOWNSHIP OF ISABELLA COUNT
one grant, 2021 · $29k
IC
ISABELLA COUNTY YOUTH & FARM FAIR SOCIETY
one grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue -28%
CC
COMMUNITY CANCER SERVICES INC
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -10%

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.

04Its field

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.

Macomb County Chamber of Commerce

The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.

Unclassified

The Comfort Home Mi

Provide no cost care and no cost room and board for the terminally ill.

Human Services

Isabella Citizens for Health Inc

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…

Health

Southwest Michigan Community Action Agency

Southwest michigan community action agency's purpose is to provide assistance to low income individuals in southwest michigan

Community Improvement

Michigan Center of Accountability for Republicans

Social welfare and issue advocacy

Civil Rights

Michigan Christian Home

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…

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Middle Michigan Development Corporation

To retain and attract business in clare and isabella counties.

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Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health

Midland County Food Assistance Network

To operate a network of food pantries to provide food to those in need.

—

Northwest Michigan Supportive Housing

To provide housing and case management services for the homeless and mentally ill within the community.

Human Services

Michigan Legal Services

Provide free legal assistance to indigent and low income persons

Crime & Legal

Community Pride Mi

Public Benefit

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mymichigan Health Foundation; 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.

05the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/37

Grantees still filing

19/37

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,857,518Human Services$1,452,230Health$984,368Arts & Culture$126,285Housing & Shelter$108,359Environment$92,667Crime & Legal$68,677

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.

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.

United Way of Greater Central MichiganMI49.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home