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The Charles J Strosacker Foundation at a glance

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The Charles J Strosacker Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
115
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$650k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$1.7MEducation$1.1MHealth$1.1MArts & Culture$973kPhilanthropy$963kEnvironment$485kHuman Services$361kCommunity Improvement$228kOther$0
02FY2024 · 115 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 115 grants below total $3,861,119, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,050,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $188,881 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k71 grants · $174k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $436k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.8M
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$80M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greater Midland Community Center$650,000
MyMichigan Health Foundation$319,620
Midland Center for the Arts$300,000
Midland Area Community Foundation$250,000
Northwood University$250,000
Chippewa Nature Center$165,000
United Way of Midland County$136,050
MyMichigan Health Foundation$100,000
Gratiot County Historical and Genealogical Society$100,000
Midland Area Community Foundation$100,000
West Midland Family Center$100,000
Midland County Agricultural & Horticultural Society$100,000
Davenport University$100,000
MyMichigan Health Foundation$100,000
Midland Area Community Foundation$87,500
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.1M · 59 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

59 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
47

Total granted

$9.1M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+9%

Still filing today

54%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $572k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NU
    Northwood University
    3× · 2022–2024 · $765k · revenue +4%
  • MB
    MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE FNDN
    3× · 2022–2024 · $295k · revenue +71%
  • MC
    MIDLAND COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $250k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • IS
    INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +97%
  • UW
    United Way Midland County
    one grant, 2022 · $128k
  • CA
    Clare All Sports Boosters
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -5%
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.

03Its field

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.

1
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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2
Midland County Cancer Society Dba Cancer Services

To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.

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3
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
4
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

—
5
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

—
6
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
7
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

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

Education
8
Michigan Advocacy Program

To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.

Crime & Legal
9
Midland County Council On Aging

Our mission is to promote and enrich quality of life for older adults and those who care for them by collaboratively providing meaningful services and opportunities.

Human Services
10
Michigan Center for Construction Education & Research Trust Agreement

To educate through collaboration of the construction industry, our membership, employees, and communities; and to develop professional workplace competencies and skills while promoting the construction industry as a career choice.

Education
11
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
12
United Way of the Midlands

United way of the midlands mission is "we unite our community's caring spirit to build a stronger tomorrow".

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Council of Michigan Foundations; the most unlike its peers is Gratiot County Historical and Genealogical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 135 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
32/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC: $1,963,000 · Recreation & SportsGREATER MIDLAND COMMUNI…MIDLAND COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsMIDLAND COUNTY AGRICULT…Clare All Sports Boosters: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsIron Belle Trail Fund: $100,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsUnited Way of Midland County: $274,120 · OtherUnited Way of Midland CountyMIDLAND COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: $153,000 · OtherUnited Way Midland County: $128,400 · OtherMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $614,650 · OtherMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONMIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE FNDN: $295,000 · OtherMIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE FNDNNorthern MI Mobile Child Advocacy Center: $120,000 · Other+93 more: $2,014,665 · Other+93 moreMYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,422,370 · HealthMYMICHIGAN HEA…+6 more: $69,515 · HealthMidland Center for the Arts Inc: $1,044,000 · Arts & CultureMidland Cen…TEMPLEARTS: $170,000 · Arts & CultureTEMPLEARTS+2 more: $10,600 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MANOR INC: $864,713 · Human ServicesCLEVELAND M…WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER: $121,500 · Human ServicesWEST MIDLAN…Family & Children's Services of Mid-Michigan Inc: $75,500 · Human ServicesFamily & Ch…UNITED WAY OF CLARE COUNTY: $64,595 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY …Michigan Masonic Home: $50,000 · Human Services+4 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesNorthwood University: $765,000 · EducationDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · Education+5 more: $45,757 · EducationCHIPPEWA NATURE CENTER: $374,650 · EnvironmentFour Lakes Task Force: $250,000 · EnvironmentINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $150,000 · Environment
Recreation & Sports$2,453,000Other$3,599,835Health$1,491,885Arts & Culture$1,224,600Human Services$1,180,308Education$910,757Environment$774,650

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC: $1,963,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetMYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,422,370 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetMidland Center for the Arts Inc: $1,044,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetCLEVELAND MANOR INC: $864,713 over 2y, 56% of budgetNorthwood University: $765,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $614,650 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCHIPPEWA NATURE CENTER: $374,650 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetMIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE FNDN: $295,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetUnited Way of Midland County: $274,120 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFour Lakes Task Force: $250,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMIDLAND COUNTY AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $250,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTEMPLEARTS: $170,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $150,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetWEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER: $121,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNorthern MI Mobile Child Advocacy Center: $120,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRATIOT COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetIron Belle Trail Fund: $100,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFamily & Children's Services of Mid-Michigan Inc: $75,500 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CLARE COUNTY: $64,595 over 3y, 10% of budgetSaginaw Community Foundation: $55,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Arc of Midland: $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetMichigan Masonic Home: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDLAND ROTARY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetMidland County Child Protection Council: $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGRATIOT COUNTY FAIR FOR YOUTH: $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLegacy Center for Community Success: $27,750 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMICHIGAN FUTURE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetChildrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCITIZENS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER MIDLAND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $23,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: $22,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetISABELLA COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMIDLAND VOLUNTEERS FOR RECYCLING: $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMidland County Food Assistance Network: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPhoenix Community Farm: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMIDLAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBAY AREA SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLOCKWOOD STEM ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMount Pleasant Discovery Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPEER 360 RECOVERY ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMICHIGAN BASEBALL FOUNDATION INC: $8,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMidland County Habitat for Humanity: $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetABLE ACADEMY INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Kings Daughters and Sons of Midland: $7,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetEversight: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Midland Area Communit…The Herbert H & Grace…Rollin M Gerstacker F…The Patricia and Davi…Consumers Energy Foun…United Way of Midland…Bierlein Companies Fo…Harry a and Margaret …Bill and Linda Stavro…Dow Company FoundationThe Mary C Currie Fou…Alden and Vada Dow Fu…
Midland Area Community FoundationMI80.4× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Midland Area Community Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · United Way of Midland County · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Bill and Linda Stavropoulos Family Foundation · Dow Company Foundation · The Mary C Currie Foundation · Alden and Vada Dow Fund

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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Find your warmest path to The Charles J Strosacker Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 135 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $4.9M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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