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The Frankenmuth Community Foundation Inc
To honor the past, focus on the present, and plan for the future by way of being an effective and reliable vehicle for planned-giving philanthropic efforts in frankenmuth.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 51 grants below total $784,260 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,084,238 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $299,978 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $589k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $105,846 |
| CASS CITY VFW POST NO 3644 | $41,500 |
| WATERTOWN TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT | $40,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE VILLAGE INC | $29,534 |
| VILLAGE OF ELKTON DDA | $27,000 |
| FRANKENMUTH CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU | $24,641 |
| UNITED CANCER ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| CALVARY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| WELLSPRING LUTHERAN SERVICES | $20,000 |
| REESE ADVENTURE CLUB | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,401 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,234 |
| LINWOOD CIVIC IMPROVEMENT CLUB | $15,600 |
| THE ARC OF MIDLAND | $15,000 |
| WELLSPRING LUTHERAN SERVICES | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 31 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $487k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FHFRANKENMUTH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION5× · 2018–2024 · $366k · revenue +43%
- TAThe Arc of Midland3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +185%
- REReece Endeavor of Midland3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- FIFRANKENMUTH INSURANCE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2.0M · revenue +53%
- FYFRANKENMUTH YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2019 · $66k · revenue -46% · 86% of their budget
- MHMICHIGAN HEROES MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To create the exchange of local products and information between growers, producers, and consumers by: supplying fresh local products and goods, educating growers, producers and consumers, keeping our rural heritage alive, inspiring…
To operate a network of food pantries to provide food to those in need.
The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.
To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.
To advance the field of health for the public good.
Promote the improvement of dental health in washtenaw county, mi
To support and assist VFW Members and local Veterans.
To advance the well-being of michigan residents through the promotion of sound public policies and responsible legislation. the purpose of these activities is to promote policies that strengthen the michigan health care system.
To preserve, record and maintain the historical information of the area between michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, known as michilimackinac.
The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.
To honor the lives and service of michigan's police officers and firefighters who died in the line of duty through the creation and development of the michigan fallen heroes memorial.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Child & Family Service of Michigan Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vassar Cork Pine Fair. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 20% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 102 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FRANKENMUTH INSURANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANKENMUTH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRANKENMUTH JAYCEES ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANKENMUTH YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HEROES MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAGINAW COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FERRIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHILD & FAMILY SERVICE OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKENMUTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Midland ↗
- Who funds Reece Endeavor of Midland ↗
- Who funds NELSON FAMILY LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Frankenmuth Insurance Foundation · Frankenmuth Auto Fest Inc · Duane & Dorothy Bierlein Family Foundation · Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation · Credit Unions Chartered in the State of Michigan Frankenmuth Credit Union · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley 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 organization The Frankenmuth Community Foundation Inc 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.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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