Michigan · Nonprofit
PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,809,567 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($607,323). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programPONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$702k
Recipients
18
Contributions on record
$1.8M
Donors on record
22
Payments out are 0.39x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
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.
- United Way for Southeastern Michiganshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Henry Ford Southeast Michigan Community Healthshared fundersportfolio match
- Elizabeth Allan & Warren Shelden Fundshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 53% · 2023 60% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $136k → $240k.
6 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 funders by total. 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.
Where its funders are
59% of PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION'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. Of the $738k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
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. Your 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way for Southeastern Michiganshared funderslocalportfolio matchMI · backs 180 organizations that share your funders · funds 193 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Henry Ford Southeast Michigan Community Healthshared fundersportfolio matchMI · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Elizabeth Allan & Warren Shelden Fundshared fundersportfolio matchMI · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Margaret Dunning Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prevention Michiganportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leinweber Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Detroit Industrial Schoolportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jewish Fundshared funderslocalMI · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · funds 50 organizations near you
- The Jamie & Denise Jacob Family Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
- Ralph L & Winifred E Polk Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Small Business Administration$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: 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.
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 PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,809,567 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($607,323). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,809,567 in grants to PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $607,323 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 23funders 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