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FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ALLEGAN

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ALLEGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,400 to it, the largest being THE ALLEGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($56,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$430k
Revenue FY2017
2
Funders on record
$57k
Grants received
$439k
Net assets
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ALLEGAN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,207 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.1mo · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,207 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2017

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $14k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'24*
total
funders
2
2
1
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ALLEGAN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ALLEGAN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ALLEGAN.

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 96% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ALLEGAN's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ALLEGAN

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

Allegan Ministerium Central Food Pantry84%Project Hope of Northeast Allegan County Inc78%Refuge Chapel Ministries77%Word of Life Christian Church of Flint76%Encounter Charlevoix76%The Journey Church Grandville76%Cheboygan Compassionate Ministries Inc76%Bread of Life Ministries of Albion76%

Nationally

Allegan Ministerium Central Food Pantry84%First Presbyterian Church Foundation81%God's Grace Community Church81%First Fruits of the Ridge Inc80%Connect Church Pf Inc80%Emmanuel Mission Church of Christian and Missionary Alliance80%Acadian Baptist Center80%Christ Fellowship Church of God in Christ Inc80%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ALLEGAN: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ALLEGAN?
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ALLEGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,400 to it, the largest being THE ALLEGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($56,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ALLEGAN have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $57,400 in grants to FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ALLEGAN, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ALLEGAN?
THE ALLEGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $56,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ALLEGAN find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing