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Rotary Charities of Traverse City

Provides funding, learning, and connections to address our region's complex problems and create community assets for all.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$439k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$3.0MArts & Culture$2.0MEnvironment$1.5MEmployment$916kHealth$909kCommunity Improvement$824kHousing & Shelter$806kPhilanthropy$769kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 30 grants below total $1,866,933 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,906,150 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $39,217 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 $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $323k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $676k
  • $250k+2 grants · $854k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROTARY CAMPS AND SERVICES$439,495
DISCOVERY CENTER & PIER$414,596
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC$200,000
UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN$127,537
GROW BENZIE$75,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GRAND TRAVERSE REGION$70,000
INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$53,159
GRAND TRAVERSE CONSERVATION DISTRICT$50,000
DISABILITY NETWORK NORTHERN MICHIGAN$50,000
FRANKFORT AREA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$50,000
GRAND TRAVERSE INDUSTRIES$41,328
THE LEELANAU CONSERVANCY$40,000
MINDIMOOYENH HEALING CIRCLE$34,732
NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION$26,489
DOLLY PARTON IMAGINATION STATION$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $598k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOARING UNLIMITED: $6k → 9%GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $22k → 9%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $140k → 10%NMCAA: $75k → 10%FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER: $54k → 7%DISABILITY NETWORK NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $50k → 10%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $32k → 10%GOOD SAMARITIAN FAMILY SERVICES: $37k → 9%BENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $10k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $10k → 10%DISABILITY NETWORK OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $10k → 10%NWWMCAA - HOMELESS YOUTH: $10k → 10%NW MI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $10k → 10%PEACE RANCH (PARAKLESIS INC): $60k → 10%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $40k → 7%PARAKLESIS (PEACE RANCH): $19k → 10%THE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 72 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

72 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
80

Total granted

$11M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+16%

Still filing today

75%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • RC
    ROTARY CAMPS & SERVICES OF TRAVERSE CITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue ×18 · 62% of their budget
  • DC
    DISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $820k · revenue +342% · 28% of their budget
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN
    7× · 2018–2025 · $510k · revenue +579%

Funded once

  • D#
    DHD #10
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • CC
    CERULEAN CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $150k
  • GT
    GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $81k · revenue +102%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
2
Little Traverse Conservancy Conservation Trust

To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.

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3
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
4
Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc

To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.

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5
Top of Michigan Trails Council

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

Recreation & Sports
6
Land Information Access Association

Liaa is a community service organization working to increase the sustainability of communities and expand civic engagement. our mission statement is: helping people to shape better communities through: participation, education, information…

Environment
7
Pace North

A provider of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) which is a community-based, long-term care delivery program that provides comprehensive, coordinated, managed care to eligible participants.

Health
8
Six Rivers Land Conservancy Fka Six Rivers Regional Land Conservancy

To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special

Environment
9
Legacy Land Conservancy

Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever

Environment
10
Northern Homes Community Development Corporation

To create and preserve quality affordable housing options for northern michigan residents through education, development, and partnering with local communities.

Human Services
11
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
12
The Little Forks Conservancy Inc

To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Michigan Community Action and the most unlike its peers is The Rock of Kingsley Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%6%<5yr13%20%5–10yr23%20%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr12%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%2%<5yr13%7%5–10yr23%19%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr13%45%35–55yr12%6%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/179
the rest of the field
8%
81/970

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

123 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. 123 of the 165 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/123
Grantees still filing
73/123
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - GRAND TRAVERSE REGION — $253,400 · OtherNETWORKS NORTHWEST — $243,875 · OtherTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC — $215,000 · OtherTRAVERSE CITY AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $205,000 · OtherTRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER — $193,758 · OtherGROW BENZIE INC — $187,252 · Other+102 more — $4,311,734 · Other+102 moreROTARY CAMPS & SERVICES OF TRAVERSE CITY — $2,824,070 · EmploymentROTARY CAMPS & SERVICES OF T…GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC — $507,000 · EmploymentGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTH…+1 more — $47,828 · EmploymentDISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES — $820,317 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CE…Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology — $143,500 · Arts & CultureCrosshatch C…TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureTraverse Area Historical Society — $60,000 · Arts & CultureTraverse City Dance Project — $51,172 · Arts & CultureBAY COMMUNITY THEATRE ORGANIZATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE GARDEN THEATER — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCOGNITION — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $164,340 · Arts & Culture+9 moreSEEDS — $329,474 · EnvironmentINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $161,879 · EnvironmentPADDLE ANTRIM — $85,000 · EnvironmentGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $80,642 · EnvironmentLEELANAU CONSERVANCY — $80,000 · EnvironmentFOR LOVE OF WATER — $60,000 · EnvironmentBOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC — $60,000 · EnvironmentGRAND TRAVERSE BAY WATERSHED INITIATIVE INC — $38,500 · Environment+6 more — $52,100 · EnvironmentUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN — $510,436 · PhilanthropyGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $265,761 · Philanthropy+4 more — $53,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION — $235,000 · Human ServicesPARAKLESIS INC — $79,375 · Human ServicesDISABILITY NETWORK NORTHERN MICHIGAN — $60,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES — $58,000 · Human ServicesFriendship Community Center Inc — $53,600 · Human ServicesHospice of Michigan Inc — $40,000 · Human ServicesFATHER FRED FOUNDATION — $31,500 · Human Services+5 more — $40,793 · Human ServicesNorthwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership — $175,500 · Housing & ShelterHOMESTRETCH NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION — $140,000 · Housing & ShelterFRANKFORT AREA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterSAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterDANNS HOUSE — $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$5,610,019Employment$3,378,898Arts & Culture$1,464,329Environment$947,595Philanthropy$829,197Human Services$598,268Housing & Shelter$440,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROTARY CAMPS & SERVICES OF TRAVERSE CITY — $2,824,070 over 9y, 62% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES — $820,317 over 3y, 28% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN — $510,436 over 7y, 11% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC — $507,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSEEDS — $329,474 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $265,761 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - GRAND TRAVERSE REGION — $253,400 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetNORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION — $235,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC — $215,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetTRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER — $193,758 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetGROW BENZIE INC — $187,252 over 6y, 19% of budgetNorthwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership — $175,500 over 3y, 82% of budgetNORTE YOUTH CYCLING — $168,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetGROUNDWORK CENTER FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES INC — $167,606 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $161,879 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetCrosshatch Center for Art & Ecology — $143,500 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetHOMESTRETCH NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION — $140,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $111,489 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetParallel 45 Inc — $110,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetIMMIGRATION LAW & JUSTICE MICHIGAN — $108,944 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetVENTURE NORTH FUNDING AND DEVELOPMENT — $95,000 over 4y, 10.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOOLS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC — $93,460 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetArts For All of Northern Michigan — $89,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetPADDLE ANTRIM — $85,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $80,642 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEELANAU CONSERVANCY — $80,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE — $80,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC — $80,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetNORTHWEST MICHIGAN HEALTH SERVICES INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPARAKLESIS INC — $79,375 over 2y, 25% of budgetNORTHERN MICHIGAN HEALTH CONSORTIUM — $75,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetFAMILY PARTNERSHIP GRAND TRAVERSE — $75,000 over 2y, 60% of budgetTRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC — $75,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE FOODSHED ALLIANCE — $70,020 over 3y, 29% of budgetTHE ROCK OF KINGSLEY INC — $69,819 over 3y, 21% of budgetFOR LOVE OF WATER — $60,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetDISABILITY NETWORK NORTHERN MICHIGAN — $60,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetBOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN INC — $60,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUTOPIA FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetTitle Track — $60,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetAUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN — $60,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHUMAN NATURE SCHOOL — $59,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES — $58,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS — $56,015 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFriendship Community Center Inc — $53,600 over 1y, 21% of budgetTraverse City Dance Project — $51,172 over 4y, 23% of budgetBAY COMMUNITY THEATRE ORGANIZATION — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFRANKFORT AREA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budget
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.

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.

Grand Traverse Region…Oleson FoundationThe Art and Mary Schm…Les & Ann Biederman F…Green Brick Foundatio…Jim and Diana Huckle …Consumers Energy Foun…The Broad Family Foun…Petoskey-Harbor Sprin…Impact 100 of Travers…United Way of Northwe…Harry a and Margaret …
Grand Traverse Regional Community FoundationMI147.3× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Oleson Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · Green Brick Foundation Inc · Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Broad Family Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Impact 100 of Traverse City Inc · United Way of Northwest Michigan · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley 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 Rotary Charities of Traverse City 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 165 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.8M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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