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Northern Michigan Catholic Foundation

The foundation is organized to support financially the spiritual, educational, and social needs of the local roman catholic community within the diocese of gaylord and to provide responsible and effective fundraising, financial management, stewardship, and use of resources with due regard to the teachings of the roman catholic faith.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$628k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$2.6MEducation$928kArts & Culture$314kHuman Services$139kPhilanthropy$6kMembership Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $1,263,298, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,386,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $123,202 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $78k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $495k
  • $250k+1 grant · $628k
$12,562
Median grant
1
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIOCESE OF GAYLORD$628,084
ST MARY CATHEDRAL PARISH$99,392
CROSS IN THE WOODS$93,673
CICINELLI FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND$87,158
MARION CHADWICK LEGACY ENDOWMENT$85,000
ARNOLD OCHS CORNERSTONE$78,500
MYLER FAMILY GTACS$51,206
SAINT MARY OF HANNAH CATHOLIC SCHOOL$23,271
HOLY CROSS CEMETERY PERPETUAL CARE FUND$16,421
ST GABRIEL CHURCH ENDOWMENT FUND$15,056
ALPENA KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 529$12,562
HAYDEN SCHOLARSHIP FUND$10,415
BISHOP BARAGA EDUCATIONAL FUND$9,891
TAWAS HOLY FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$9,258
ST FRANCIS XAVIER SCHOOL$8,583
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IMMACULATE CONCEPTION: $168k → 7%ST MARY SCHOOL: $27k → 9%SAINT MARY OF HANNAH CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $23k → 10%DIOCESE OF GAYLORD: $628k → 11%HOLY CROSS CEMETERY PERPETUAL CARE FUND: $16k → 16%MARION CHADWICK LEGACY ENDOWMENT: $85k → 16%HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $100k → 18%GRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $84k → 7%ST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $22k → 9%ARNOLD OCHS CORNERSTONE: $79k → 10%DIOCESE OF GAYLORD: $398k → 11%ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH: $16k → 16%CICINELLI FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND: $87k → 18%GRAND TRAVERSE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $70k → 7%ST MARY SCHOOL - CHARLEVOIX: $13k → 9%ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH: $16k → 10%DIOCESE OF GAYLORD: $180k → 11%ST GABRIEL CHURCH ENDOWMENT FUND: $15k → 16%ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH CHADWICK: $16k → 16%HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $83k → 18%GRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $61k → 7%ST MARY - VERST SCHOLARSHIP: $13k → 9%DIOCESE OF GAYLORD: $171k → 11%ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15k → 16%CICINELLI FAMILY FUND-TAWAS: $50k → 18%GRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $55k → 7%DIOCESE OF GAYLORD: $144k → 11%GRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $55k → 7%DIOCESE OF GAYLORD: $125k → 11%GRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $55k → 7%ST MARY CATHEDRAL PARISH: $99k → 11%CATHOLIC SHRINE ENDOWMENT: $200k → 12%MYLER FAMILY GTACS: $51k → 7%ST MARY CATHEDRAL PARISH: $91k → 11%CROSS IN THE WOODS: $94k → 12%IMMACULATE CONCEPTION: $28k → 7%ST MARY CATHEDRAL SCHOOL: $84k → 11%CROSS IN THE WOODS: $48k → 12%IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH: $27k → 7%ST MARY CATHEDRAL SCHOOL: $71k → 11%CATHOLIC SHRINE ENDOWMENT: $37k → 12%DIOCESE OF GAYLORD: $66k → 11%CATHOLIC SHRINE ENDOWMENT: $17k → 12%ST MARY CATHEDRAL SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND-GAYLORD: $63k → 11%ST MARY CATHEDRAL SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND-GAYLORD: $43k → 11%ST MARY CATHEDRAL SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND-GAYLORD: $42k → 11%MYLER FAMILY ST MARY'S CHURCH: $34k → 11%ST MARY CATHEDRAL SCHOOL - GAYLORD: $23k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 19 repeat orgs$604k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
11

Total granted

$3.6M
$358k

Still filing today

5%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Crime & LegalReligionOther
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

  • DO
    DIOCESE OF GAYLORD
    6× · 2018–2023 · $959k
  • RC
    ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF GAYLORD
    2× · 2024–2025 · $753k
  • GT
    GRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
    6× · 2018–2025 · $377k

Funded once

  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH
    2× · 2022–2023 · $83k
  • GT
    GRAND TRAVERSE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $70k
  • CF
    CICINELLI FAMILY FUND-TAWAS
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
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
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/3
Grantees still filing
0/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DIOCESE OF GAYLORD: $958,601 · OtherDIOCESE OF GAYLORDROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF GAYLORD: $752,845 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF GAYLORDGRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $377,245 · OtherGRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLSIndividual grant recipient: $253,869 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOLY FAMILY OF EAST TAWAS: $201,210 · OtherIMMACULATE CONCEPTION: $195,540 · OtherST MARY CATHEDRAL SCHOOL: $154,851 · OtherST MARY CATHEDRAL SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FUND-GAYLORD: $147,762 · OtherCROSS IN THE WOODS CATHOLIC SHRINE OF INDIAN RIVER: $141,524 · Other+27 more: $918,199 · Other+27 moreNORTHERN MICHIGAN CATHOLIC FOUNDATION: $78,500 · ReligionBISHOP BARAGA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $32,777 · Crime & Legal
Other$4,101,646Religion$78,500Crime & Legal$32,777

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHERN MICHIGAN CATHOLIC FOUNDATION: $78,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBISHOP BARAGA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $32,777 over 4y, 20% of budget
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 NORTHERN MICHIGAN CATHOLIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BISHOP BARAGA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS 529 ALPENA COUN ↗

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.

Two Eagles Foundation…Renaissance Charitabl…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Two Eagles Foundation IncWI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Two Eagles Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Northern Michigan Catholic Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northern Michigan Catholic Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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