· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $38,000 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE AREA VETERANS COALITION | $8,000 |
| PROJECT FEED THE KIDS | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| TCAPS - STUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK | $4,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 29% of The Carl a Lemcool Memorial Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 71%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GTGRAND TRAVERSE CONSERVATION DISTRICT2× · 2021–2022 · $50k
- TBTRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER2× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue +20%
- TSTCAPS STEP PROGRAM2× · 2021–2022 · $10k
Funded once
- MPMICHAEL'S PLACEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +52%
- SMSINGLE MOMMgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $38k · revenue +156%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEone grant, 2023 · $23k · revenue 0%
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.
7 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. 7 of the 17 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.
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Carl a Lemcool Memorial Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carl a Lemcool Memorial Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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