Michigan · Nonprofit
Saginaw Community Foundation
Saginaw Community Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,043,593 to it, the largest being Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation ($1,492,561). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year. Saginaw 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
Saginaw 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 programSaginaw 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
$14M
Recipients
188
Contributions on record
$7.6M
Donors on record
63
Payments out are 1.89x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
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.
- Thieme Family Foundationlocal
- Harvey Randall Wickes Foundationportfolio match
- Council of Michigan Foundationsportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 3% · 2022 25% · 2023 43% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $59k → $1.2M.
8 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $189k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Saginaw Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Saginaw Community Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Saginaw Community Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
61% of Saginaw Community Foundation's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 59 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Thieme Family FoundationlocalMI · funds 14 organizations near you
- Harvey Randall Wickes Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council of Michigan Foundationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Catholic Community Foundation of Mid-MichiganlocalMI · funds 19 organizations near you
- The Jewish Fundshared fundersMI · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
- Central Michigan University Research CorporationlocalMI · funds 12 organizations near you
- The Carls Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 60 organizations that share your funders
- The Frankenmuth Community Foundation InclocalMI · funds 19 organizations near you
- Frankenmuth Auto Fest InclocalMI · funds 6 organizations near you
- Jack & Sally Burt Charitable FoundationlocalFL · funds 7 organizations near you
- Frankenmuth JayceeslocalMI · funds 5 organizations near you
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 Saginaw Community Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $981k on record.
- Department of Justice$701k
- Department of Agriculture$281k
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- SCF-Morley Building LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Saginaw 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 Saginaw Community Foundation?
- Saginaw Community Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,043,593 to it, the largest being Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation ($1,492,561). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year. Saginaw 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 Saginaw Community Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $7,043,593 in grants to Saginaw Community Foundation, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Saginaw Community Foundation?
- Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,492,561 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Saginaw 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 59funders 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