How much did THE ALLEGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2022?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE ALLEGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2018

catholicmen womennotre dameresponsibilitysearch truthanimatedopen

2019

catholicnotre dametruthresponsibilityanimatedopendiscussion

2020

medicalprogrammingstudents livesadultschurchliberal artscalvin

2021

petyouth adultadult programminglakeprivatemanagementstudents lives

2022

legacymesainvestscontributionslake superiorpetabused

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

03FY2022 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

Under $10k20 grants · $145k
$10k–50k25 grants · $480k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$27M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
OUTDOOR DISCOVERY CENTER$20,000
WINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE$20,000
ALMA COLLEGE$18,000
ALLEGAN COUNTY UNITED WAY$16,122
CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS-SE$15,836
ALLEGAN AREA EDUCATIONAL SERVICES AGENCY$15,000
WINGS HOME INC$15,000

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 (FY17–22, $604k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.9M · 50 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

50 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2022, 16 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.9M

$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+18%

Still filing today

62%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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

SP
SYLVIA'S PLACE
8× · 2017–2024 · $306k · revenue +34%
HF
HUNGRY FOR CHRIST
8× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +87%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
5× · 2017–2021 · $115k · revenue +156%

Funded once

WC
WILLIAM CRISPE COMMUNITGY HOUSE INC
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -61%
LI
LOVE INC OF NW ALLEGAN COUNTY
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +22%
AD
ALLEGAN DISTRICT LIBRARY
one grant, 2018 · $10k

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.

The Northern Michigan University

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education

Saginaw Valley State University

To generate and cultivate a community of enthusiastic and loyal donors who contribute to the development of a premier university of outstanding students.

Education

Alvernia University

A catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters

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Spring Arbor University

Spring arbor university provides post-secondary education to over 2,390 students, granting ba, bs, ma and ms degrees.

Education

Alumni Association of the University of Michigan

The Association is an independent worldwide organization that nurtures lifelong relationships with and among current and future Michigan alumni. As a committed partner of the University the Association offers programs of relevance and…

Education

Washtenaw Community College

To give hope and support to washtenaw community college students through scholarships and other philanthropic support.

Education

Lake Forest College

Lake Forest College is a National Residential Liberal Arts College, accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

Education

Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover share knowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and develop leadership expressed in service to others.

Education

Spring Arbor University Foundation

The foundation supports the work of spring arbor university.

Philanthropy

Olivet Nazarene University

To provide high-quality academic instruction for the purpose of personal development, career and professional readiness, and the preparation of individuals for lives of service to God and humanity.

Education

Upper Iowa University

Upper iowa university provides quality educational opportunities accessible through varied delivery methods to inspire success and empower lives.

Education

University of Dubuque

Post secondary and graduate level education

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Allegan County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Saint Xavier University. 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 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/92

the rest of the field

1,013/11,446

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

61 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)

55/61

Grantees still filing

48/61

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,653,762Human Services$603,725Education$309,553Food & Nutrition$162,487Crime & Legal$159,950Arts & Culture$126,007Philanthropy$115,150

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.

The Community Foundation of TheMI47.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of The · The Mignon Sherwood Delano Fund · Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation · Allegan County United Way · Consumers Energy Foundation · Greater Ottawa County United Way · Michigan College Access Network · Grand Haven Area Community · Feeding America West Michigan · Michigan Gateway Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Lakeview 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 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.

2025

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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: ALLEGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~19 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 382169206 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 ALLEGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 19 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Allegan County Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Allegan County Community Foundation 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.

THE ALLEGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Allegan County Community Foundation?

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THE ALLEGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Allegan County Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph