· Community foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| WELLSPRING LUTHERAN SERVICES | $20,000 |
| UNITED CANCER ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| CALVARY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| REESE ADVENTURE CLUB | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,401 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,234 |
| LINWOOD CIVIC IMPROVEMENT CLUB | $15,600 |
| WELLSPRING LUTHERAN SERVICES | $15,000 |
| THE ARC OF MIDLAND | $15,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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 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 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 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.
The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.
To support and assist VFW Members and local Veterans.
To preserve, record and maintain the historical information of the area between michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, known as michilimackinac.
How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 The Arc of Midland ↗
- Who funds FRANKENMUTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Reece Endeavor of Midland ↗
- Who funds NELSON FAMILY LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Frankenmuth Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frankenmuth Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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