How much does Rotary Charities of Traverse City give?

Rotary Charities of Traverse City reported 30 itemized grants totaling $1,866,933, out of $1,906,150 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 47 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Rotary Charities of Traverse City fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (22%), Arts & Culture (15%), Environment (12%).

Who are Rotary Charities of Traverse City's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rotary Camps & Services of Traverse City ($2.8M), Discovery Center Great Lakes ($820k), United Way of Northwest Michigan ($510k).

Does Rotary Charities of Traverse City fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Rotary Charities of Traverse City?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, Oleson Foundation, The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation.

Where is Rotary Charities of Traverse City based?

Rotary Charities of Traverse City is based in MI.

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Michigan · Public charity

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 FY2024(still arriving): 30
Itemized grants FY2024: 33
Organizations funded FY2023: 45%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $1.9M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $439,495
Organizations funded a year: 33 to 47; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $50M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 45% of the organizations Rotary Charities of Traverse City funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $772k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	29	$1.9M	31%
FY2023	33	$2.0M	45%
FY2022	42	$1.6M	38%
FY2021	39	$1.3M	54%
FY2020	35	$1.8M	49%
FY2019	36	$1.7M	42%
FY2018	42	$1.5M	50%
FY2017	47	$1.1M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

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

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
Rotary Camps & Services of Traverse City	$2,824,070	9	62%
Discovery Center Great Lakes	$820,317	3	28%
United Way of Northwest Michigan	$510,436	7	11%
Goodwill Industries of Northern Michigan Inc	$507,000	6	1%
Seeds	$329,474	5	5%
Habitat for Humanity - Grand Traverse Region	$253,400	5	3%
Networks Northwest	$243,875	3	n/a
Northwest Michigan Community Action	$235,000	4	1%
Traverse Area Recreation & Transportation Trails Inc	$215,000	5	5%
Traverse City Area Public Schools	$205,000	2	n/a

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All grantees of Rotary Charities of Traverse City by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Rotary Camps & Services of Traverse City	$2,824,070	9	62%
Discovery Center Great Lakes	$820,317	3	28%
United Way of Northwest Michigan	$510,436	7	11%
Goodwill Industries of Northern Michigan Inc	$507,000	6	1%
Seeds	$329,474	5	5%
Habitat for Humanity - Grand Traverse Region	$253,400	5	3%
Networks Northwest	$243,875	3	n/a
Northwest Michigan Community Action	$235,000	4	1%
Traverse Area Recreation & Transportation Trails Inc	$215,000	5	5%
Traverse City Area Public Schools	$205,000	2	n/a
Traverse Bay Childrens Advocacy Center	$193,758	6	10%
Grow Benzie Inc	$187,252	6	19%
Traverse City Dda	$186,000	6	n/a
Northwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership	$175,500	3	82%
Norte Youth Cycling	$168,000	5	18%
Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities Inc	$167,606	4	4%
Health Department of Northwest Michigan	$166,000	3	n/a
Inland Seas Education Association	$161,879	4	8%
Dhd #10	$150,000	1	n/a
Cerulean Center	$150,000	1	n/a
Kalkaska Dda	$145,000	5	n/a
Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology	$143,500	7	9%
Homestretch Nonprofit Housing Corporation	$140,000	3	44%
Northwestern Michigan College Foundation	$111,489	3	1%
Parallel 45 Inc	$110,000	5	17%
Immigration Law & Justice Michigan	$108,944	2	7%
Honor Area Restoration Project	$105,000	4	n/a
Communities in Schoools of Northwest Michigan Inc	$93,460	2	7%
Grand Traverse Pavilions Grand Traverse County Medical Care Facility	$90,000	3	n/a
Arts For All of Northern Michigan	$89,000	3	30%
Paddle Antrim	$85,000	3	17%
Natural Resources Department	$84,721	3	n/a
Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy	$80,642	1	0%
Leelanau Conservancy	$80,000	3	1%
Conservation Resource Alliance	$80,000	2	2%
Benzie Area Christian Neighbors Inc	$80,000	3	2%
Northwest Michigan Health Services Inc	$80,000	2	0%
Paraklesis Inc	$79,375	2	25%
Northern Michigan Health Consortium	$75,000	1	10%
Family Partnership Grand Traverse	$75,000	2	60%
Traverse Symphony Orchestra D/B/A Traverse City Philharmonic	$75,000	2	3%
Grand Traverse Foodshed Alliance	$70,020	3	29%
The Rock of Kingsley Inc	$69,819	3	21%
Grand Traverse Conservation District	$61,260	2	n/a
For Love of Water	$60,000	2	9%
Disability Network Northern Michigan	$60,000	2	4%
Botanical Garden Society of Northwest Michigan Inc	$60,000	2	4%
Utopia Foundation Inc	$60,000	2	6%
Title Track	$60,000	4	15%
Traverse Area Historical Society	$60,000	2	n/a
Autism Alliance of Michigan	$60,000	1	2%
Human Nature School	$59,000	3	24%
Good Samaritan Family Services	$58,000	2	3%
Community Resource Development Inc	$57,400	2	n/a
Munson Healthcare Foundations	$56,015	2	0%
Friendship Community Center Inc	$53,600	1	21%
Traverse City Dance Project	$51,172	4	23%
Grow Benzie	$50,000	1	n/a
Traverse Area District Library	$50,000	1	n/a
Bay Community Theatre Organization	$50,000	1	11%
Frankfort Area Community Land Trust	$50,000	1	16%
Civil Air Patrol Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Village of Kingsley	$50,000	1	n/a
Friends of the Garden Theater	$50,000	1	5%
Safe Harbor of Grand Traverse Inc	$50,000	2	n/a
Cognition	$50,000	1	13%
Michael's Place	$50,000	1	n/a
Grand Traverse Industries Inc	$47,828	2	1%
Kalkaska County Commission on Aging	$43,678	4	n/a
Memorial Park Pickleball Association	$40,000	1	n/a
Interlochen Center for the Arts	$40,000	2	0%
Hospice of Michigan Inc	$40,000	1	0%
Grand Traverse Bay Watershed Initiative Inc	$38,500	2	4%
Alliance for Economic Success	$36,900	2	8%
Northport Arts Association	$35,000	3	23%
Charlevoix County Community on Aging	$35,000	1	n/a
Mindimooyenh Healing Circle	$34,732	1	25%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwe	$34,410	1	n/a
Father Fred Foundation	$31,500	1	2%
Newtons Road Northwest	$30,750	2	8%
Traverse Area Pickleball Association	$30,000	1	n/a
Bellaire Dda	$30,000	3	n/a
Benzie Conservation District	$29,780	4	n/a
Leland Township Public Library	$25,000	1	n/a
Mission Impact Inc	$25,000	2	1%
Danns House	$25,000	1	26%
Grand Traverse Pavilions Foundation	$25,000	2	7%
Dolly Partons Imagination Library Gtr	$25,000	1	15%
Crooked Tree Arts Council Inc	$25,000	2	1%
Grass River Natural Area Inc	$22,851	2	2%
Northern Family Intervention Services Inc	$21,260	1	2%
Leelanau Peninsula Economic Foundation Inc	$20,500	1	n/a
Village of Elberta	$20,000	1	n/a
Elk Rapids Chamber of Commerce	$20,000	2	n/a
Mt Holiday Inc	$20,000	1	2%
Commonplace Practice	$20,000	1	14%
Benzie Aquatic Center	$20,000	2	n/a
Safe Passage	$20,000	3	1%
Glen Arbor Arts Center	$19,700	2	2%
Traverse City Center of Entrepreneurship	$19,500	2	2%
Benzie Home Health Care	$19,290	1	n/a
Joyfield Township (Lakes to Land)	$19,000	1	n/a
Preserve Hickory	$17,500	2	6%
Central United Methodist Church	$16,855	2	n/a
Village of Ellsworth	$16,200	3	n/a
Traverse Bay Area Isd	$16,000	2	n/a
New Community Vision	$15,350	2	5%
Benzie County Government	$15,000	1	n/a
Community Services	$15,000	1	n/a
Blackbird Arts	$12,500	1	n/a
The Great Lakes Childrens Museum	$12,000	2	3%
Rotary Charities of Traverse City	$12,000	2	0%
Catholic Charities West Michigan	$11,725	1	0%
Generations Ahead	$10,295	1	2%
East Bay Charter Township	$10,000	2	n/a
Mdnr	$10,000	1	n/a
Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network	$10,000	2	8%
Friends of Betsie Valley Library	$10,000	1	n/a
Girl Scouts of Michigan Shore to Shore	$10,000	1	0%
National Alliance on Mental Illness Grand Tra	$10,000	2	11%
Benzie Aquatic Center	$10,000	1	3%
Helplink	$10,000	1	n/a
Friends of the Sleeping Bear Dunes	$10,000	1	n/a
Glen Lake Association Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Thompsonville Area Revitalization Projec	$10,000	2	n/a
Traverse City Garfield Township Recreational Authority	$10,000	2	n/a
Glen Lake Community Library	$10,000	1	n/a
American Legion	$10,000	1	n/a
Leelanau Energy	$10,000	1	n/a
Village of Fife Lake	$10,000	1	n/a
Elk Rapids District Library	$10,000	1	n/a
Village of Central Lake	$10,000	1	n/a
The Antrim Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Power Book Bags	$10,000	1	3%
Michigan Dep of Health & Human Services	$10,000	1	n/a
Garfield - Kalkaska County	$10,000	1	n/a
Benzie Senior Resources	$10,000	1	0%
New Waves Housing Inc	$10,000	1	20%
Friends of Peninsula Community Library	$10,000	1	8%
Leelanau County Historic Preservation Society	$10,000	1	n/a
Benzie Shores District Library	$10,000	1	n/a
Michigan Legacy Art Park	$10,000	1	6%
Friends of the Historic Commons	$10,000	1	n/a
Citizens Council of the Sleeping Bear Dunes Area Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Betsie Valley Community Center	$10,000	1	n/a
The Festival Foundation	$9,750	1	0%
Solon Township	$9,350	1	n/a
Bay Area Transportation Authority	$9,100	1	n/a
Traverse City Retreat	$8,000	1	n/a
Elmwood Township	$7,500	1	n/a
Legal Services of Northern Michigan	$7,380	1	0%
Benzie Leelanau Dhd	$6,239	1	n/a
Soaring Unlimited Dba Centre de Sante Soaring Pister	$5,748	1	3%
Michigan Enviromental Council	$5,000	1	0%
Planting Seeds International	$5,000	1	3%
The Rotary Foundation	$5,000	1	n/a
Women's Resource Center Grand Traverse Area	$5,000	2	0%
Pure Water for the World Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Namaste Foundation	$5,000	1	1%
Maritime Heritage Alliance	$2,640	1	n/a
Bay Area Recycling for Charities	$1,750	1	n/a

Rotary Charities of Traverse City supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 94 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 94.

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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.

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

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 Rotary Charities of Traverse City

How much does Rotary Charities of Traverse City give?: Rotary Charities of Traverse City reported 30 itemized grants totaling $1,866,933, out of $1,906,150 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 47 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Rotary Charities of Traverse City fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (22%), Arts & Culture (15%), Environment (12%).
Who are Rotary Charities of Traverse City's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rotary Camps & Services of Traverse City ($2.8M), Discovery Center Great Lakes ($820k), United Way of Northwest Michigan ($510k).
Does Rotary Charities of Traverse City fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rotary Charities of Traverse City?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, Oleson Foundation, The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation.
Where is Rotary Charities of Traverse City based?: Rotary Charities of Traverse City is based in MI.