· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSTURGIS HISTORICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $683k · revenue +3% · 97% of their budget
- CFCAMP FORT HILL9× · 2017–2025 · $397k · revenue +64% · 68% of their budget
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ELKHART COUNTY INC4× · 2020–2025 · $165k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- MCMICHIGAN COMMUNITY CAPITALone grant, 2023 · $500k
- MSMAIN STREET MEDIA GROUPone grant, 2024 · $25k
- KLKLINGER LAKE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
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
To help residents live to their fullest potential, recognizing the changing needs 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…
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…
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.
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.
Care and adoption placement of pets.
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
To improve the quality of life of cancer survivors and their families in our community through helpful advocacy, hopeful support and innovative education programs.
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sturgis Area Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sturgis Area Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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