· Community foundation
Tuscola County Community Foundation
To solicit and collect contributions for charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes to benefit the people of and around Tuscola County, Michigan
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 42 grants below total $607,981 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,116,591 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $508,610 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $431k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Caro Community Schools | $66,521 |
| Cass City Public Schools | $35,479 |
| Dollywood Foundation | $34,695 |
| St Lorenz Lutheran Church & School | $31,500 |
| Friends of The Thumb Octagon Barn | $26,000 |
| Saginaw Valley State University | $25,000 |
| Caro Area District Library | $21,357 |
| Thumb Octagon Barn Agricultural Mus | $21,000 |
| Covenant Healthcare FoundationVisi | $21,000 |
| Field Neuroscience InstituteMyMich | $21,000 |
| Caro United Methodist Church Good | $20,000 |
| Shriners Hospital for Children | $18,900 |
| Leader Dogs for the Blind | $18,900 |
| Gideons International | $18,900 |
| St Jude Childrens Hospital | $16,800 |
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.
37 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $341k went to new ones.
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
- DFDOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $345k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2019–2020 · $302k
- CCCaro Community Schools7× · 2017–2025 · $266k
Funded once
- VOVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONSone grant, 2018 · $62k
- CMCaro Masonic Mt Moriah Lodge2× · 2023–2024 · $20k
- CACHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF TUSCOLA COone grant, 2019 · $18k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
0 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. 0 of the 94 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.