· Public charity
Road Runners Club of America Traverse City Track Club Inc
The corporation is organized exclusively as a charitable organization within the meaning of internal revenue service code the code section 501c3, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code, for the purpose of: 1 promoting and encouraging health, fitness, family recreation and competition for all individuals in the…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 86% of Road Runners Club of America Traverse City Track Club Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $64,530 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $91,870 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,340 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 · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GT County Parks & Rec | $26,030 |
| Forest Area Comm Schools | $21,000 |
| TART Trails Inc | $11,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +83% since the first grant, against +73% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- TATRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $258k · revenue +334%
- TCTRAVERSE CITY CENTRAL ATHLETIC BOOSTERS2× · 2017–2019 · $28k · revenue +83%
- TFTHE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $21k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- GTGarfield Township Rec Authone grant, 2023 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $16k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $13k
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 protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.
Fresh coast film festival is a film festival organization celebrating the outdoor lifestyle, water-rich environment and resilient spirit of the great lakes and upper midwest. the festival will gather the best in environmental and cultural…
We advocate and facilitate the development of a network of multipurpose recreational trails in Northern Lower Michigan.
Promotion of michigan agriculture, horticulture, education, mechanical arts, fine arts, fruit and grain productss, stock rasising and dairy products, domestic science and kindred interests throughout the grand traverse region, to be…
Support government units & nonprofits in economic development
The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…
Preserving, protecting, and promoting mountain bike access and diverse riding opportunities on metropolitain detroit's public lands through education, communication, and unified action.
Michigan trails & greenways alliance is the statewide voice for nonmotorized trail users, helping people build, connect and promote trails for a healthier and more prosperous michigan.
Little Traverse Conservancy protects land in northern Michigan by owning it as Nature Preserves and Working Forest Reserves, and through Conservation Easements (perpetual, voluntary agreements that guard the conservation values of the…
To cultivate a thriving and connected startup ecosystem in nw lower michigan.
We foster economic development by attracting sporting events which improve our citizens' quality of life and elevates the brand of grand rapids.
Create and maintain a non motorized multi-use trail system that provides a place to experience mountain biking, hiking, cross country skiing, snowshoeing, trail running and more in a natural environment while providing the opportunity to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Festival Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 24 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 TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVE HICKORY ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE CITY CENTRAL ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds THE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE CITY WEST ATHLETIC BOOSTER ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NORTE YOUTH CYCLING ↗
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: The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundation · The Broad Family Foundation · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Julius H and Barbara B Beers Family Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Frey 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 Road Runners Club of America Traverse City Track Club Inc 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.