Michigan · Community foundation
Sturgis Area Community Foundation
Promote the use of pooled funds for charitable, benevolent, industrial development, and educational uses to meet the changing needs of the local community by allowing persons of all means to help contribute to these causes.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $17,857
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $185,350
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $39M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Sturgis Area Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $1.0M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $820k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $1.1M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $653k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $615k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $494k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $333k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $299k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Sturgis | $1,808,310 | 9 | n/a |
| Sturgis Public High School | $799,084 | 9 | n/a |
| Sturgis Historical Society | $683,036 | 9 | 97% |
| Camp Fort Hill | $397,247 | 9 | 68% |
| Sturgis Hospital Inc | $224,112 | 3 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Elkhart County Inc | $165,350 | 4 | 1% |
| Thurston Woods Village Inc | $129,921 | 7 | 0% |
| St Joseph County United Way | $97,552 | 4 | 6% |
| Childrens Trauma Assessment Group | $77,280 | 5 | 21% |
| Rooted of St Joseph County Inc | $72,213 | 2 | 17% |
Show all 46 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Sturgis | $1,808,310 | 9 | n/a |
| Sturgis Public High School | $799,084 | 9 | n/a |
| Sturgis Historical Society | $683,036 | 9 | 97% |
| Camp Fort Hill | $397,247 | 9 | 68% |
| Sturgis Hospital Inc | $224,112 | 3 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Elkhart County Inc | $165,350 | 4 | 1% |
| Thurston Woods Village Inc | $129,921 | 7 | 0% |
| St Joseph County United Way | $97,552 | 4 | 6% |
| Childrens Trauma Assessment Group | $77,280 | 5 | 21% |
| Rooted of St Joseph County Inc | $72,213 | 2 | 17% |
| Klinger Lake Association Inc | $63,750 | 2 | n/a |
| Youth for Christ Incorporated SW MI | $59,085 | 4 | 3% |
| Sturgis Neighborhood Program | $58,000 | 3 | 24% |
| South Michigan Food Bank | $54,381 | 3 | 0% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI | $46,260 | 3 | 9% |
| Constantine Public School District | $35,922 | 4 | n/a |
| Sturgis Area Chamber of Commerce | $33,857 | 2 | 13% |
| Childrens Concerns of St Joseph County Inc | $33,257 | 4 | 31% |
| Sturgis Womans Club | $31,330 | 2 | n/a |
| Main Street Media Group | $25,000 | 1 | 21% |
| Sturgis Helping Hands | $22,800 | 2 | n/a |
| Open Door Art Center Inc | $20,502 | 2 | n/a |
| Keystone Place Inc | $20,350 | 2 | 3% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $19,678 | 1 | 0% |
| St Joseph County Isd | $19,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity | $18,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Glen Oaks Community College | $14,742 | 1 | n/a |
| White Pigeon Parks and Recreation | $14,160 | 1 | n/a |
| Sturgis Athletic Boosters Club | $12,419 | 1 | n/a |
| White Pigeon Middle School | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Sturgis Hospital | $11,918 | 1 | n/a |
| The Salvation Army | $11,200 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Three Rivers | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sturgis Wind Symphony | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Three Rivers Health System Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Village of Constantine | $9,667 | 1 | n/a |
| Berean Community Church | $9,492 | 1 | n/a |
| Sturgis Downtown Development Assoc | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sjc Council for Prev of Child Abuse | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Constantine Community Food Pantry | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Little Baseball League Inc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Donorschooseorg | $7,768 | 1 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Amigo Centre | $5,960 | 1 | 1% |
| Animal Rescue Fund | $5,826 | 1 | 4% |
| Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 1381 | $5,449 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($613k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sturgis Area Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: St Joseph County United Way · Fibre Converters Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Sturgis Area Community Foundation
- How much does Sturgis Area Community Foundation give?
- Sturgis Area Community Foundation reported 24 itemized grants totaling $1,014,994, out of $1,202,527 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sturgis Area Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Recreation & Sports (17%), Education (13%).
- Who are Sturgis Area Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Sturgis ($1.8M), Sturgis Public High School ($799k), Sturgis Historical Society ($683k).
- Does Sturgis Area Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sturgis Area Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Joseph County United Way, Fibre Converters Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Sturgis Area Community Foundation based?
- Sturgis Area Community Foundation is based in MI.
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