Barry Community Foundation
Hastings, MI · EIN 38-3246131. Reported 158 grants totalling $8,370,630 to 74 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Barry Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 74 distinct organizations, with 20% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 52% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $17,492. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $41,000; the smallest was $5,200 and the largest $1,650,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 420 E Mills LLC | Grand Rapids, MI | $1,650,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Barry County United Way | Hastings, MI | $1,236,047 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Hastings Public Library | Hastings, MI | $1,050,908 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association Barry County | Hastings, MI | $381,399 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Green Gables Haven | Hastings, MI | $307,806 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Maple Valley Memorial Scholarship Foundation | Shelbyville, MI | $275,558 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Corewell Health | Grand Rapids, MI | $246,697 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Delton Kellogg Schools | Delton, MI | $212,811 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lake Odessa Area Historical Society | Lake Odessa, MI | $197,956 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Thornapple Arts Council of Barry County | Hastings, MI | $174,826 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Maple Valley Memorial Scholarship Foundation | Hastings, MI | $158,721 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Delton Area Rotary Club | Delton, MI | $157,170 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bcec Inc | Hastings, MI | $153,084 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Barry County Area Chamber of Commerce | Hastings, MI | $142,532 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Thornapple Manor | Hasting, MI | $141,318 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Barry County Junior Golf Association | Hastings, MI | $136,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maple Valley Memorial Scholarship Foundation | Nashville, MI | $101,474 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Hastings Performing Arts Center | Hastings, MI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gateway Mission | Holland, MI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oceana County Housing Commission Nonprofit Corporation | Hart, MI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hastings Area School System | Hasting, MI | $80,978 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hastings Education Enrichment Foundation | Hastings, MI | $75,055 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Maple Valley Schools | Nashville, MI | $67,750 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Jordan Lake Trail Board | Lake Odessa, MI | $66,394 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Action Agency of South Central Michigan | Battle Creek, MI | $60,171 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Legacy Junior Golf Foundation | Hastings, MI | $58,127 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Thornapple Kellogg Public Library | Middleville, MI | $57,711 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Spiritual Care Consultants of West Michigan Inc | Hastings, MI | $57,200 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Friends of the Lake Odessa Community Library Inc | Lake Odessa, MI | $52,956 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Barry County Community Foundation | Hastings, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Willard G Pierce and Jessie M Pierce Foundation | Hastings, MI | $42,362 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Genevieve and Donald S Gilmore Foundation | Hickory Crnrs, MI | $34,589 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Greater Wall Lake Association | Delton, MI | $33,388 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Migrant Legal Aid Inc | Grand Rapids, MI | $31,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Pitsch Companies | Grand Rapids, MI | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hastings Band Boosters | Hastings, MI | $28,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services | Grand Rapids, MI | $27,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Barry Intermediate School District | Hastings, MI | $26,735 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Hastings, MI | $25,028 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Village of Middleville | Nashville, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| South Michigan Food Bank | Battle Creek, MI | $24,199 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Family Support Center of Barry County | Hastings, MI | $21,950 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Rose of Lima Catholic Church | Hastings, MI | $21,514 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Thornapple Kellogg School District | Hastings, MI | $20,953 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Barry County Cares Inc | Hastings, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Barry County Humane Society | Hastings, MI | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Barry Eaton District Health Department | Hastings, MI | $18,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Noah's Ark Preschool | Hastings, MI | $16,628 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Groundtruth Project Inc | Boston, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sherriff Goslin Quality Roofing Company | Battle Creek, MI | $14,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mannas Market Inc | Lake Odessa, MI | $14,323 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Hands Montessori Inc | Richland, MI | $13,788 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Kiwanis International Inc | Hastings, MI | $12,968 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Journey Church | Caledonia, MI | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trumble Insurance Agency | Hastings, MI | $10,550 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Diocese of Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo, MI | $10,269 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Barry County Christian School | Hastings, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hastings Church of the Nazarene | Hastings, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Historic Charlton Park | Hastings, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Imagination Library of Barry County | Hastings, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Thornapple Players | Hastings, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Green Street United Methodist Church | Hastings, MI | $9,896 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sprout Urban Farms Inc | Battle Creek, MI | $9,375 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Putnam District Library | Nashville, MI | $8,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coldspring | Chicago, IL | $8,259 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dorsey College | Grand Rapids, MI | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pros Consulting Inc | Brownsburg, IN | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Disability Resource Association Inc | Festus, MO | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church | Hastings, MI | $7,326 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Blue Zones Activate | Minneapolis, MN | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Johnstown Township | Delton, MI | $6,375 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Prairieville Township | Delton, MI | $5,856 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Par-Tee Ventures LLC | Hastings, MI | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
34 of 74 (46%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- 420 E Mills LLC
HASTINGS RIVERWALK APARTMENTS CONSTRUCTION - Green Gables Haven
SUPPORT OPERATIONS - HELPING VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE - Barry County United Way
HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION, FUNERAL EXPENSES, MEDICAL BILLS, VEHICLE REPAIR, ANNUAL DISTRIBUTIONS - Maple Valley Memorial Scholarship Foundation
SCHOLARSHIP ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION - Pitsch Companies
PROVIDE GOODS/SERVICES TO COMMUNITY REVIVAL - Community Action Agency of S Central Mi
SCHOLARSHIP FUND CONTRIBUTIONS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 23 of 74 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 28 | $920,639 | $17,000 |
| 2021 | 25 | $935,197 | $21,721 |
| 2022 | 33 | $1,500,134 | $23,127 |
| 2023 | 34 | $1,997,123 | $10,976 |
| 2024 | 38 | $3,017,537 | $16,525 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Michigan. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
6 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 26 grants totalling $1,271,682 to Barry Community Foundation. That is 35% of the 17 funders we can see giving to it. Those 6 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a community foundation.
5 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas a & Margaret E Decamp Foundation | Michigan | $1,129,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Baum Family Foundation | Michigan | $90,000 | 11 | 4 | 2024 |
| Richard B Messer Fbo Pennock Hospital | Ohio | $33,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Community Heart & Soul Inc | Vermont | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| John E Fetzer Institute Inc | Michigan | $8,900 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Amazonsmile Foundation | Washington | $782 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $17,492 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Michigan.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Barry Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 35 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 3 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 231 South Broadway, Hastings, MI, 49058.
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