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Three Rivers Area Community Foundation

The foundation's purpose is to receive and accept contributions to be administered exclusively for charitable purposes, primarily in and for the benefit of residents of st. Joseph county and the southwest michigan area.

$101k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$62k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Three Rivers Area Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationReligionOther
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 arriving6$56k83%
FY20236$50k50%
FY20223$41k33%
FY20212$42k100%
FY20205$73k20%
FY20197$103k71%
FY20175$61kn/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.

Education$147kRecreation & Sports$94kFood & Nutrition$60kCommunity Improvement$35kPublic Benefit$25kPhilanthropy$22kHuman Services$18kArts & Culture$16kOther$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
Three Rivers Rotary Club Inc$71,602635%
Three Rivers Food Site Inc$60,276411%
River Country Sports Commission$51,2783n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan$25,2503n/a
City of Three Rivers$24,5991n/a
St Joseph County$20,0001n/a
Carnegie Center Council for the Art$15,769112%
Culture Is Not Optional Nfp$15,3502n/a
Western Michigan University$13,5002n/a
Three Rivers Area Chamber of Commerce$10,00014%
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All grantees of Three Rivers Area Community Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Three Rivers Rotary Club Inc$71,602635%
Three Rivers Food Site Inc$60,276411%
River Country Sports Commission$51,2783n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan$25,2503n/a
City of Three Rivers$24,5991n/a
St Joseph County$20,0001n/a
Carnegie Center Council for the Art$15,769112%
Culture Is Not Optional Nfp$15,3502n/a
Western Michigan University$13,5002n/a
Three Rivers Area Chamber of Commerce$10,00014%
Grand Valley State University$8,0001n/a
Southwestern Michigan College$7,7501n/a
Three Rivers Recreation$7,2991n/a
Michigan State University$5,5001n/a
Kalamazoo Valley Community College Foundation$5,50010%
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker Md School of Medicine$5,5001n/a

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($78k), not named here.

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About Three Rivers Area Community Foundation

How much does Three Rivers Area Community Foundation give?
Three Rivers Area Community Foundation reported 7 itemized grants totaling $62,085, out of $101,212 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Three Rivers Area Community Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (34%), Recreation & Sports (22%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
Who are Three Rivers Area Community Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Three Rivers Rotary Club Inc ($72k), Three Rivers Food Site Inc ($60k), River Country Sports Commission ($51k).
Does Three Rivers Area Community Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Three Rivers Area Community Foundation based?
Three Rivers Area Community Foundation 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 23 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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