· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| Covenant Healthcare FoundationVisi | $21,000 |
| Field Neuroscience InstituteMyMich | $21,000 |
| Thumb Octagon Barn Agricultural Mus | $21,000 |
| Caro United Methodist Church Good | $20,000 |
| Leader Dogs for the Blind | $18,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,900 |
| Shriners Hospital for Children | $18,900 |
| St Jude Childrens Hospital | $16,800 |
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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.
How this is measured
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
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.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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.
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