How much did ROTARY CHARITIES OF TRAVERSE CITY grant in FY2024?

Employment$3.2MArts & Culture$1.4MEnvironment$872kPhilanthropy$819kHuman Services$517kHousing & Shelter$366kHealth$300kYouth Development$250kCommunity Improvement$237kOther$4.2M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

transformationconduct aquaticaquatic researchresearch orderorder advanceadvance understandingunderstanding great

2020

resourcespecialinspiresbudgetbicyclesplacewcs

2021

munson healthcaregarden theaterfuture generationshospicegatewaynaturalbenefit

2022

chamber commercebetterseed emergingbotanicalenvironmentalpreservationinterlochen arts

2023

regardlessdevelopingwatershedgrand bayplacesystems changechange accelerator

2024

acresalongparentskinginterlochen artsdisabilitiesthriving

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $15k
$10k–50k18 grants · $323k
$50k–250k8 grants · $676k
$250k+2 grants · $854k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$48M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
DISABILITY NETWORK NORTHERN MICHIGAN$50,000
GRAND TRAVERSE CONSERVATION DISTRICT$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

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 (FY18–24, $517k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$10M · 62 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 +57% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

62 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$10M

$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+28%

Still filing today

74%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHealthOther

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 AND SERVICES
7× · 2018–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +1703% · 62% of their budget
DC
DISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES
2× · 2023–2024 · $820k · revenue +13878% · 28% of their budget
UW
UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN
6× · 2018–2024 · $510k · revenue +485%

Funded once

DH
DISTRICT HEALTH DEPARTMENT #10
one grant, 2023 · $150k
CC
CERULEAN CENTER
one grant, 2019 · $150k
GR
GT REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY (CERULEAN FUNDS)graduated
one grant, 2021 · $81k · revenue +93%

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.

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.

Environment

Little Traverse Conservancy Inc

To protect the natural diversity and beauty of northern Michigan by preserving significant land and scenic areas, and fostering appreciation and understanding of the environment.

Environment

Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc

The Lake Superior Community Partnership is the Marquette County regions leading resource for economic development, providing a wide variety of affordable and effective development services.

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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

Michigan Lakes and Streams

Preservation and protection of michigan inland lakes and streams

Environment

Little Traverse Conservancy

To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.

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Legacy Land Conservancy

To protect natural areas, working farmlands, waters and recreation spaces in southeastern michigan.

Environment

Six Rivers Land Conservancy

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

Environment

Top of Michigan Trails Council

We advocate and facilitate the development of a network of multipurpose recreational trails in northern lower michigan. currently there are 325 miles of trail in our inventory and most are classified as "improved." provided technical…

Recreation & Sports

Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

Creating partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services

Lake Superior Community Ptnrshp Foundation

To promote and advance education, economic and workforce development along with cultural and recreational activities in the Upper Peninsula.

Employment

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 Cognition. 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 23 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% 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 — 1% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%2/148

the rest of the field

70/1,001

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.

05the grantee network

100 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

95/100

Grantees still filing

72/100

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,015,709Employment$3,178,898Arts & Culture$1,411,689Environment$872,125Philanthropy$818,536Human Services$517,393Housing & Shelter$365,500

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.

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 Regional CommunityMI147.8× affinity70 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Traverse Regional Community · Oleson Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family · Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Broad Family Foundation · Green Brick Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Michigan · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · Dte Energy 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 organisation 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HOUSING NORTH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue held over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 833499967 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HOUSING NORTH, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 82% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Rotary Charities of Traverse City through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ROTARY CHARITIES OF TRAVERSE CITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

100 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rotary Charities of Traverse City?

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ROTARY CHARITIES OF TRAVERSE CITY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

100 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rotary Charities of Traverse City?

More from the funding graph