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The Fremont Area Elderly Needs Fund

To complement and supplement the charitable objectives of fremont area community foundation by making grants to charitable organizations that serve the older adult population of newaygo county and the surrounding western michigan area.

$248k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$23,833
Largest grant, FY2024
$188,415
Organizations funded a year
5 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Fremont Area Elderly Needs Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$370k43%
FY20235$377k0%
FY20227$392k29%
FY20215$337k0%
FY20205$300k20%
FY20195$288k40%
FY20185$293k40%
FY20175$326kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.0MFood & Nutrition$314kCommunity Improvement$182kPhilanthropy$110kReligion$81kHealth$55kArts & Culture$28kAnimals$21kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
County of Newaygo Office of Administration$1,260,0027n/a
Catholic Charities West Michigan$739,54081%
Truenorth Community Services$282,05830%
Christian Reformed Church in North America$123,2826n/a
Bellwether Foundation$87,00059%
Newaygo County Mental Health$37,4671n/a
Grantmakers in Aging Inc$35,00011%
Newaygo County Council for the Arts Inc$27,53545%
Senior Sing Along$25,80037%
Bellwether Harbor Animal Shelter$20,76014%
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All grantees of The Fremont Area Elderly Needs Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
County of Newaygo Office of Administration$1,260,0027n/a
Catholic Charities West Michigan$739,54081%
Truenorth Community Services$282,05830%
Christian Reformed Church in North America$123,2826n/a
Bellwether Foundation$87,00059%
Newaygo County Mental Health$37,4671n/a
Grantmakers in Aging Inc$35,00011%
Newaygo County Council for the Arts Inc$27,53545%
Senior Sing Along$25,80037%
Bellwether Harbor Animal Shelter$20,76014%
Corewell Health$17,5001n/a
Renew Mobility$10,00012%
Lilley Township$7,6921n/a
Newaygo County Medical Care Facility$6,5001n/a
Fremont Area District Library$2,7001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Fremont Area Elderly Needs Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCatholic Charities West Michigan: $739,540 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTruenorth Community Services: $282,058 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBellwether Foundation: $87,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetGrantmakers in Aging Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNewaygo County Council for the Arts Inc: $27,535 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetSenior Sing Along: $25,800 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetBellwether Harbor Animal Shelter: $20,760 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetRenew Mobility: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Fremont Area Community FoundationMI30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fremont Area Community Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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How do I get to The Fremont Area Elderly Needs Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Fremont Area Elderly Needs Fund 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.

About The Fremont Area Elderly Needs Fund

How much does The Fremont Area Elderly Needs Fund give?
The Fremont Area Elderly Needs Fund reported 8 grants totaling $247,844 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Fremont Area Elderly Needs Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (71%), Food & Nutrition (11%), Community Improvement (7%).
Who are The Fremont Area Elderly Needs Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: County of Newaygo Office of Administration ($1.3M), Catholic Charities West Michigan ($740k), Truenorth Community Services ($282k).
Does The Fremont Area Elderly Needs Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Fremont Area Elderly Needs Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fremont Area Community Foundation, Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Fremont Area Elderly Needs Fund based?
The Fremont Area Elderly Needs Fund is based in MI.

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 16 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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