How much does Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation give?

Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation reported 162 itemized grants totaling $8,654,040, out of $9,085,920 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 126 and 141 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.

What does Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (6%), Health (5%), Arts & Culture (4%).

Who are Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Greater Midland Community Ctrs Inc ($4.2M), Midland Center for the Arts Inc ($3.2M), Mymichigan Health Foundation ($2.0M).

Does Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Midland Area Community Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation, The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation.

Where is Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation based?

Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation is based in MI.

Foundation Dossiers

Michigan · Private foundation

Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 162
Itemized grants FY2024: 126
Organizations funded FY2023: 47%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $8.7M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $17,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,500,000
Organizations funded a year: 126 to 141; FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 13
Total assets, FY2024: $145M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 47% of the organizations Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	136	$7.7M	50%
FY2023	126	$7.4M	47%
FY2022	141	$8.5M	n/a

96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$3.5MHealth$3.1MArts & Culture$2.6MPhilanthropy$2.4MEnvironment$2.2MEducation$1.4MHuman Services$687kCommunity Improvement$679kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Greater Midland Community Ctrs Inc	$4,226,000	3	10%
Midland Center for the Arts Inc	$3,166,000	3	10%
Mymichigan Health Foundation	$2,000,000	2	16%
Chippewa Nature Center	$1,030,000	3	14%
Midland Business Alliance Fndn	$735,000	3	12%
Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc	$619,000	3	30%
Four Lakes Task Force	$500,000	2	2%
United Way of Midland County	$302,500	3	2%
Munson Healthcare Foundations	$250,000	1	2%
Saginaw Valley State University	$250,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Greater Midland Community Ctrs Inc	$4,226,000	3	10%
Midland Center for the Arts Inc	$3,166,000	3	10%
Mymichigan Health Foundation	$2,000,000	2	16%
Chippewa Nature Center	$1,030,000	3	14%
Midland Business Alliance Fndn	$735,000	3	12%
Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc	$619,000	3	30%
Four Lakes Task Force	$500,000	2	2%
United Way of Midland County	$302,500	3	2%
Munson Healthcare Foundations	$250,000	1	2%
Saginaw Valley State University	$250,000	1	n/a
The Arc of Midland	$225,000	3	15%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc	$200,000	2	0%
The Little Forks Conservancy Inc	$200,000	3	22%
Davenport University	$190,000	3	0%
Alma College	$175,000	2	0%
Mackinac Center	$170,000	2	1%
Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy	$170,000	2	1%
Northwood University	$155,000	1	0%
Templearts	$150,000	1	3%
Eagle Village Inc	$120,000	2	0%
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research	$115,000	3	0%
Michael's Place	$103,000	3	9%
Association for Children's Mental Health	$102,000	2	8%
Saratoga Warhorse Foundation Inc	$100,000	1	14%
West Midland Family Center	$100,000	2	1%
Coleman Community Schools	$100,000	1	n/a
Kalamazoo College	$90,000	3	0%
Hiram College	$90,000	3	0%
University of Michigan	$90,000	3	9%
Southern Univerty System	$90,000	3	0%
Central Michigan University	$90,000	3	n/a
Salvation Army	$80,000	2	n/a
Toni & Trish House for the Terminally Ill	$75,000	3	4%
Bullock Creek Schools	$65,000	2	n/a
Wildlife Recovery Association	$60,000	2	51%
Mid Michigan College	$60,000	2	n/a
Discovery Center Great Lakes	$50,000	1	5%
Our Lady of Grace Parish of Sanford	$50,000	1	n/a
Alma Public Schools	$50,000	1	n/a
Arnold Center Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Clare All Sports Boosters, Inc.	$50,000	1	n/a
Child & Family Services of Northwestern Michigan Inc	$45,000	2	0%
The Heritage Foundation	$45,000	3	0%
Historical Society of Michigan	$45,000	3	1%
United Way of Bay County	$45,000	3	1%
Bay Area Women's Center	$45,000	2	2%
Hemlock Public Schools	$43,000	2	n/a
Council on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault	$40,000	1	1%
Writers Series of Traverse City	$40,000	2	3%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region	$40,000	1	4%
Mid Michigan Big Brothers Big Sisters	$40,000	2	6%
Epilepsy Association	$40,000	3	2%
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc	$35,000	1	8%
United Way of Saginaw County	$35,000	3	1%
Council of Michigan Foundations	$33,600	2	0%
Lions Visually Impaired Youth Camp	$32,000	3	2%
Reaching Our Community Kids	$30,100	1	2%
Bay County Fair & Youth Exposition	$30,000	1	9%
Isabella County Child Advocacy Center	$30,000	2	4%
Caregiving Network Inc	$30,000	1	12%
Finlandia University	$30,000	1	n/a
World Medical Relief Incorporated	$30,000	2	0%
Eversight	$30,000	3	0%
Inland Seas Education Association	$28,875	1	1%
Michigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America	$25,000	1	0%
Saginaw Symphony Association	$25,000	1	5%
Northern Transformation Corporation	$25,000	1	9%
Michigan United Cerebral Palsy	$25,000	1	3%
Midland Berryhill Baseball Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Saginaw Bay Community Sailing Association	$25,000	1	30%
Northwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership	$25,000	1	3%
Central Michigan Mountain Bike Association	$25,000	1	20%
Gratiot County Fair for Youth	$25,000	1	2%
New Dawn Senior Living	$25,000	1	n/a
Bay Area Soccer Association	$25,000	1	7%
Michigan 4-H Foundation	$25,000	1	2%
Bay Sail Inc	$25,000	1	8%
The Presbyterian Church of Traverse City	$23,000	3	n/a
Midland Explorers Boosters Inc	$22,500	3	5%
Fraternal Northwest Little League	$20,000	1	19%
Cleveland Zoological Society	$20,000	2	0%
Our Savior Lutheran Church	$20,000	1	n/a
Cuyahoga Community College Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
Sanford Historical Society	$20,000	2	n/a
Epilepsy Foundation of Michigan	$20,000	2	1%
East Side Soup Kitchen	$20,000	1	2%
Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan	$20,000	1	0%
Mid-Michigan Children's Museum	$20,000	1	3%
Providence House Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy	$20,000	1	3%
Family & Children's Services of Mid-Michigan Inc	$18,500	1	2%
Phoenix Community Farm	$16,000	1	18%
Women's Aid Service Inc	$15,000	1	1%
YWCA Great Lakes Bay Region	$15,000	1	8%
Mount Pleasant Discovery Museum	$15,000	1	3%
Tawas Bay Players Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Gladwin Community Services Corporation	$15,000	1	11%
Gratiot County Historical and Genealogical Society	$15,000	1	2%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan	$15,000	1	0%
Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc	$13,050	2	0%
Camp Centaur Inc	$13,000	3	21%
Student Advocacy Center of Michigan Inc	$12,000	2	1%
Mid Michigan Brass Band	$12,000	3	n/a
Shiawassee Council on Aging Inc	$12,000	1	1%
Memorial Presbyterian Church	$11,000	3	n/a
Student Statesmanship Institute	$10,500	1	2%
United Way of Clare County	$10,000	1	5%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Bay Veterans Foundation	$10,000	1	4%
Midland Amateur Hockey League Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Northern Michigan Adaptive Sports Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Leader Dogs for the Blind	$5,700	1	0%
Essexville-Hampton School	$5,250	1	n/a
Equest Center for Therapeutic Riding Inc	$5,000	1	0%
READ Association of Saginaw County	$5,000	1	4%
Rose Lake Youth Camp	$5,000	1	9%
Alps Road Presbyterian Church	$2,500	1	n/a
Genesee County Agricultural Society	$2,000	1	0%
Pregnancy Resource Center	$1,250	1	0%
Trustees of Purdue University	$1,000	1	n/a
Interlochen Center for the Arts	$1,000	1	0%
Rockford Lutheran Jr-Sr High School	$600	1	n/a
The Brain Aneurysm Foundation Inc	$500	3	0%
Catholic Diocese of Saginaw	$500	1	n/a
Dow High Music Booster Club	$250	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 143 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.3M), not named here.

Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 100 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 100.

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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.

Midland Area Community FoundationMI73× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Midland Area Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · Alden and Vada Dow Fund · The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · The Mary C Currie Foundation · Dow Company 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.

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About Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation

How much does Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation give?: Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation reported 162 itemized grants totaling $8,654,040, out of $9,085,920 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 126 and 141 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (6%), Health (5%), Arts & Culture (4%).
Who are Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Greater Midland Community Ctrs Inc ($4.2M), Midland Center for the Arts Inc ($3.2M), Mymichigan Health Foundation ($2.0M).
Does Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Midland Area Community Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation, The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation.
Where is Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation based?: Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation is based in MI.