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The Carl a Lemcool Memorial Foundation Inc

TO SUPPORT CHARITABLE, SCIENTIFIC, LITERARY AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, BY MAKING GIFTS, GRANTS AND DISTRIBUTIONS REQUIRED IN THE BYLAWS OF THE EXCHANGE CLUB OF TRAVERSE CITY. Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$38,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The Carl a Lemcool Memorial Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$60k100%
FY20235$98k100%
FY20224$51k25%
FY20214$68k100%
FY20182$26kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$129kEnvironment$60kRecreation & Sports$47kYouth Development$23kCrime & Legal$20kEducation$14kFood & Nutrition$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Michael's Place$50,00018%
Grand Traverse Conservation District$50,0002n/a
Single Momm$37,52515%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwe$23,00012%
Traverse Bay Childrens Advocacy Center$20,00021%
Child & Family Services of Northwestern Michigan Inc$11,34110%
Boardman River Clean Sweep$10,0001n/a
Veterans in Crisis$10,000111%
Grand Traverse Area Veterans Coalition$8,0001n/a
Project Feed the Kids Inc$5,00011%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($78k), not named here.

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.

Grand Traverse Regional Community FoundationMI22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · The Broad Family Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · Impact 100 of Traverse City Inc · Kegley Family Foundation · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Carl a Lemcool Memorial Foundation Inc

How much does The Carl a Lemcool Memorial Foundation Inc give?
The Carl a Lemcool Memorial Foundation Inc reported 5 grants totaling $60,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Carl a Lemcool Memorial Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (43%), Environment (20%), Recreation & Sports (16%).
Who are The Carl a Lemcool Memorial Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Michael's Place ($50k), Grand Traverse Conservation District ($50k), Single Momm ($38k).
Does The Carl a Lemcool Memorial Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Carl a Lemcool Memorial Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Carl a Lemcool Memorial Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, The Broad Family Foundation, The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation.
Where is The Carl a Lemcool Memorial Foundation Inc based?
The Carl a Lemcool Memorial Foundation Inc is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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