· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $1,014,994 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,202,527 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $187,533 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $221k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $759k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP FORT HILL INC | $185,350 |
| STURGIS DDA | $140,546 |
| STURGIS PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $122,150 |
| CITY OF STURGIS | $113,322 |
| STURGIS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $75,500 |
| ROOTED OF ST JOESPH COUNTY INC | $62,213 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SW MI | $60,350 |
| STURGIS YOUTH CENTER | $40,090 |
| KLINGER LAKE ASSOCIATION | $28,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $24,338 |
| THURSTON WOODS VILLAGE | $23,602 |
| STURGIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $17,857 |
| ST JOSEPH COUNTY UW | $17,502 |
| CHILDRENS TRAUMA ASSESSMENT GROUP | $12,780 |
| OPEN DOOR ART CENTER | $12,502 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCAMP FORT HILL9× · 2017–2025 · $397k · revenue +64% · 68% of their budget
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC4× · 2020–2025 · $165k · revenue +9%
- TWTHURSTON WOODS VILLAGE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- MCMICHIGAN COMMUNITY CAPITALone grant, 2023 · $500k
- MSMAIN STREET MEDIA GROUPone grant, 2024 · $25k
- KLKLINGER LAKE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the St. Vincent Catholic Charities is the work of the Catholic Church to share the love of Christ by performing corporal and spiritual works of Mercy.
The St Joseph Community Park Foundation raises funds and purchase amenities to be used to maintain and improve park within the city of St Joseph, Michigan or operated by the City, Park, Recreation and Green Spaces are important elements of…
To help residents live to their fullest potential, recognizing the changing needs of each person.
To improve the quality of life for the citizens of St. Joseph County and their succeeding generations.
Ministers to inpatients and outpatients, serving a primary care and specialty referral center for people from all faiths living in chemung county and the surrounding counties of new york and pennsylvania
Saint Joseph Home Health Care seeks to serve the poor, elderly, and disabled in a way that pleases God and honors the dignity of each person.
St. croix valley habitat for humanity partners with working families, sponsors, and communities to build affordable, sustainable, quality homes and to provide support services that promote successful home purchase and ownership in pierce…
Our aim is to try each day to build a new society in the shell of the old as we practice the various works of mercy, and labor with whatever resources, physical as well as spiritual, that we have been given at the time.
Combining leadership and teamwork to provide caring, high quality, efficient, and affordable primary health care for all segments of the community.
to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit
Care and adoption placement of pets.
To improve the quality of life of cancer survivors and their families in our community through helpful advocacy, hopeful support and innovative education programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sturgis Neighborhood Program and the most unlike its peers is Main Street Media Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 28. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 57 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds STURGIS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CAMP FORT HILL ↗
- Who funds STURGIS HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THURSTON WOODS VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS TRAUMA ASSESSMENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds ROOTED OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Youth for Christ Incorporated SW MI ↗
- Who funds STURGIS NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI ↗
- Who funds STURGIS AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CONCERNS OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET MEDIA GROUP ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Three Rivers Health System Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: St Joseph County United Way · Fibre Converters Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Sturgis Area Community Foundation 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.
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.