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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…

$92k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$489kEducation$38kCommunity Improvement$35kHuman Services$21kHealth$14kPhilanthropy$10kArts & Culture$7kYouth Development$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $64,530, the rows itemized in this filing. The $91,870 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $27,340 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
$21,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GT County Parks & Rec$26,030
Forest Area Comm Schools$21,000
TART Trails Inc$11,500
Individual grant recipient$6,000
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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $8k → 7%CHERRY FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $8k → 7%CHERRY FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $6k → 7%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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$454k · 8 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +73% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$454k
$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+73%

Still filing today

63%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • TA
    TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $258k · revenue +334%
  • TC
    TRAVERSE CITY CENTRAL ATHLETIC BOOSTERS
    2× · 2017–2019 · $28k · revenue +83%
  • TF
    THE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $21k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • GT
    Garfield Township Rec Auth
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $16k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
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.

1
Little Traverse Conservancy Conservation Trust

To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.

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2
Fresh Coast Film Festival

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Top of Michigan Trails Council

We advocate and facilitate the development of a network of multipurpose recreational trails in Northern Lower Michigan.

Recreation & Sports
4
Northwestern Michigan Fair Assoc

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…

Recreation & Sports
5
Traverse Connect Foundation

Support government units & nonprofits in economic development

Community Improvement
6
The Great Northern Winter Festival

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,…

Arts & Culture
7
Motor City Mountain Biking Assoc

Preserving, protecting, and promoting mountain bike access and diverse riding opportunities on metropolitain detroit's public lands through education, communication, and unified action.

Recreation & Sports
8
Michigan Trails & Greenways Alliance

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Little Traverse Conservancy Inc

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…

Environment
10
Traverse City Center of Entrepreneurship

To cultivate a thriving and connected startup ecosystem in nw lower michigan.

—
11
West Michigan Sports Commission

We foster economic development by attracting sporting events which improve our citizens' quality of life and elevates the brand of grand rapids.

Recreation & Sports
12
Munising Bay Trail Network

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…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Festival Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 24 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC: $257,970 · OtherTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INCTRAVERSE CITY AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $45,920 · OtherTRAVERSE CITY AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLSONEKAMA TOWNSHIP: $35,000 · OtherONEKAMA TOWNSHIPTRAVERSE CITY CENTRAL ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $27,920 · OtherGT County Parks & Rec: $26,030 · OtherGRAND TRAVERSE PAVILIONS GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY MEDICAL CARE FACILITY: $22,750 · OtherForest Area Comm Schools: $21,000 · OtherGarfield Township Rec Auth: $20,000 · Other+9 more: $83,224 · Other+9 morePRESERVE HICKORY: $30,480 · Community ImprovementTHE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $20,500 · Human ServicesNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationTRAVERSE CITY WEST ATHLETIC BOOSTER: $7,500 · EducationGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND TRAVERSE LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM: $7,000 · Arts & CultureNORTE YOUTH CYCLING: $6,000 · Youth Development
Other$539,814Community Improvement$30,480Human Services$20,500Education$17,500Philanthropy$10,000Arts & Culture$7,000Youth Development$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC: $257,970 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetPRESERVE HICKORY: $30,480 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTRAVERSE CITY CENTRAL ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: $27,920 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTHE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS: $13,699 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRAVERSE CITY WEST ATHLETIC BOOSTER: $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM: $7,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNORTE YOUTH CYCLING: $6,000 over 1y, 4.1% 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 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 GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRAVERSE CITY WEST ATHLETIC BOOSTER ↗
  • Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds NORTE YOUTH CYCLING ↗

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.

The Art and Mary Schm…Oleson FoundationRotary Charities of T…Grand Traverse Region…Baird Foundation IncJim and Diana Huckle …The Broad Family Foun…Les & Ann Biederman F…Consumers Energy Foun…The Julius H and Barb…Harry a and Margaret …Frey Foundation
The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family FoundationMI26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Road Runners Club of America Traverse City Track Club Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Road Runners Club of America Traverse City Track Club Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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