· Community foundation
The Allegan County Community Foundation
To positively impact allegan county through financial stewardship, education, and community partnerships.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 45 grants below total $625,511 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $769,476 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $143,965 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k20 grants · $145k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $480k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAUGATUCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $41,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $38,400 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $36,200 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $30,611 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $23,700 |
| HUNGRY FOR CHRIST | $20,806 |
| SYLVIA'S PLACE | $20,611 |
| WINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE | $20,000 |
| OUTDOOR DISCOVERY CENTER | $20,000 |
| ALMA COLLEGE | $18,000 |
| ALLEGAN COUNTY UNITED WAY | $16,122 |
| CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS-SE | $15,836 |
| ALLEGAN AREA EDUCATIONAL SERVICES AGENCY | $15,000 |
| CONGREGATIONAL KITCHEN | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $604k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +28% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2022, 14 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- SPSYLVIA'S PLACE8× · 2017–2024 · $306k · revenue +34%
- HFHUNGRY FOR CHRIST8× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +87%
- SCSAUGATUCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC5× · 2017–2023 · $96k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- WCWILLIAM CRISPE COMMUNITY HOUSE INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -65%
- LILove in the Name of Christone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +22%
- ADALLEGAN DISTRICT LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $10k
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 nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
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To receive, administer, and distribute funds to promote and encourage research, scholarship, creative activities, and other applied research and technology at CMU.
Spring arbor university is a community of learners distinguished by our lifelong involvement in the study and application of the liberal arts, total commitment to jesus christ as the perspective for learning and critical participation in…
Davenport university prepares individuals and organizations to excel in the knowledge-driven environment of the 21st century.
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To provide a business education that equips individuals to deliver superior service to employers and their communities.
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To enable student success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Allegan County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 79 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 SYLVIA'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds HUNGRY FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds THE ALLEGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAUGATUCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS SE ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ODC NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ALLEGAN ↗
- Who funds ARC OF ALLEGAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALMA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTION DBA MEDIATION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GRANT ME HOPE ↗
- Who funds WISHBONE PET RESCUE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ALLEGAN COUNTY LEGAL ASSISTANCE CTR ↗
- Who funds ALLEGAN COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE OF PULLMAN ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds WINGS HOME ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MITTEN CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATIONAL KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Kettering University ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST MARGARET CHURCH ST VINCENT DE PAUL CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds THE RENEWED HOPE FREE HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGAN MINISTERIUM CENTRAL FOOD PANTRY ↗
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: The Mignon Sherwood Delano Fund · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation · Allegan County United Way · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Greater Ottawa County United Way · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Consumers Energy Foundation · Michigan College Access Network · Feeding America West Michigan · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Michigan Gateway Community 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 organization The Allegan County 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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.