· Private foundation
The Chelsea Health and Wellness Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $114k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $259k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANCHESTER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $125,679 |
| ST JOSEPH MERCY CHELSEA | $75,000 |
| 5 HEALTHY TOWNS FOUNDATION | $58,471 |
| CHELSEA WELLNESS CENTER | $49,263 |
| GRASS LAKE SENIOR CENTER | $26,450 |
| DEXTER WELLNESS CENTER | $18,046 |
| MANCHESTER AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| STOCKBRIDGE AREA SENIOR CENTER | $8,000 |
| MAIN STREET PARK ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
| CITY OF CHELSEA | $6,825 |
| GRASS LAKE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $6,250 |
| STOCKBRIDGE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $5,800 |
| GRASS LAKE FARMERS MARKET | $5,750 |
| DEXTER WINTER FARMERS MARKET | $5,615 |
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 (FY17–25, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 5% of The Chelsea Health and Wellness Foundation’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, 83%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SJST JOSEPH MERCY CHELSEA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $663k · revenue +29%
- THTRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN8× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +28%
- GLGRASS LAKE SENIOR CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $94k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $22k
- PMPotawatomi Mountain Bike Associationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +271% · 39% of their budget
- CCCHELSEA CHILDRENS COOPERATIVE INCone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +21%
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.
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.
To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.
The Chelsea Rod and Gun Club of Chelsea, Michigan is organized for the purposes of propagating fish and wildlife in the vicinity of Chelsea, Michigan, for leasing and maintaining lands for hunting, and for carrying on conservation and…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
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.
Provides information and services for senior citizens of cheboygan county.
To foster, promote and teach amateur hockey in Chelsea, MI and surrounding areas.
The purpose of Chelsea United Way shall be to raise funds in the community to assist local agencies to maintain the health and welfare of members of the community of Chelsea.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
Liaa is a community service organization working to increase the sustainability of communities and expand civic engagement. our mission statement is: helping people to shape better communities through: participation, education, information…
A member driven organization committed to providing quality professional park and recreation programs and services with fiscal integrity and progressive leadership to michigans recreation and parks trade.
We support, promote, and inform our business and non-profit members, as well as chelsea in general, for a stronger, more productive, and cohesive community. we are a non-profit, member-supported organization.
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 95 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.
- Who funds ST JOSEPH MERCY CHELSEA INC ↗
- Who funds Grass Lake Farmers Market ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ACORN FARMERS MARKET AND CAFE ↗
- Who funds GRASS LAKE SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CHELSEA SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN AIR MARKET OF STOCKBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds Potawatomi Mountain Bike Association ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHELSEA CHILDRENS COOPERATIVE INC ↗
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: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · St Joseph Mercy Chelsea Inc · Trinity Health - Michigan · United Way of Washtenaw County · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · DTE Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Copper Nail Community Resale Shop · James a and Faith Knight Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Chelsea Health and Wellness Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chelsea Health and Wellness Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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