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Otsego Community Foundation
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- $1.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,168,858
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Otsego Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $665k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $1.5M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $1.1M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $968k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $163k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $247k | 61% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $101k | 91% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $23k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otsego Christian School Association | $1,786,105 | 2 | 66% |
| Otsego County Habitat for Humanity Inc | $739,709 | 3 | 67% |
| Otsego County United Way Inc | $267,538 | 6 | 27% |
| Gaylord Community Schools | $174,437 | 6 | n/a |
| The Refuge in Otsego County | $143,700 | 3 | 69% |
| Otsego County Sportsplex | $134,088 | 7 | 3% |
| Munson Healthcare Otsego Memorial Hospital Foundation | $64,439 | 4 | 5% |
| Otsego County Community Food Pantry | $57,940 | 3 | 17% |
| Veterans Education Training & Support Inc | $57,879 | 2 | 7% |
| Otsego Community Foundation | $52,791 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otsego Christian School Association | $1,786,105 | 2 | 66% |
| Otsego County Habitat for Humanity Inc | $739,709 | 3 | 67% |
| Otsego County United Way Inc | $267,538 | 6 | 27% |
| Gaylord Community Schools | $174,437 | 6 | n/a |
| The Refuge in Otsego County | $143,700 | 3 | 69% |
| Otsego County Sportsplex | $134,088 | 7 | 3% |
| Munson Healthcare Otsego Memorial Hospital Foundation | $64,439 | 4 | 5% |
| Otsego County Community Food Pantry | $57,940 | 3 | 17% |
| Veterans Education Training & Support Inc | $57,879 | 2 | 7% |
| Otsego Community Foundation | $52,791 | 1 | n/a |
| Gaylord Area Council for the Arts | $44,172 | 3 | 7% |
| Salvation Army | $42,350 | 4 | n/a |
| Womens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc | $32,510 | 3 | 0% |
| Huron Pines Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Power Book Bags | $28,425 | 3 | 4% |
| The Karing Home Youth Project | $27,700 | 3 | n/a |
| Johannesburg-Lewiston Area School District | $22,915 | 4 | n/a |
| Otsego County Commission on Aging | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Gaylord Last Resort | $16,600 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Gaylord | $16,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Little League Baseball Inc | $16,024 | 2 | 28% |
| Community Mediation | $16,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Pigeon River Country Association Inc | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Headwaters Land Conservancy | $13,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Crossroads Ministries Inc Dba New Life Pregnancy | $12,141 | 2 | 3% |
| Northern Family Intervention Services Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Gaylord Gators Inc | $11,977 | 2 | n/a |
| McLaren Northern Michigan Foundation | $11,300 | 2 | 0% |
| State Trooper Outreach Partnership Gaylord Chapter | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Otsego County Hockey Association | $10,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Otsego County Economic Alliance Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Crossroads Industries Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Michigan Disaster Response and Recovery | $7,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Gaylord Soccer League Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Junior Achievement of the Michigan Great Lakes Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Equip for Freedom | $5,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Kirtland Community College Foundation | $5,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Gaylord Evangelical Free Church | $5,450 | 1 | n/a |
| Michigan Dep of Health & Human Services | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lutheran Child & Family Service of Michigan Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($97k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Otsego Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Consumers Energy Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Orsa Foundation · Otsego County United Way Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Otsego Community Foundation
- How much does Otsego Community Foundation give?
- Otsego Community Foundation reported 19 itemized grants totaling $1,487,811, out of $1,664,363 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Otsego Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (49%), Housing & Shelter (23%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Otsego Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Otsego Christian School Association ($1.8M), Otsego County Habitat for Humanity Inc ($740k), Otsego County United Way Inc ($268k).
- Does Otsego Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Otsego Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Consumers Energy Foundation, DTE Energy Foundation, Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation.
- Where is Otsego Community Foundation based?
- Otsego Community Foundation is based in MI.
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