Credit Unions Chartered in the State of
Frankenmuth, MI · EIN 38-1796409. Reported 38 grants totalling $632,614 to 37 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 37 distinct organizations, with 6% 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. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,400. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,375; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $40,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elkton Village Downtown Development Authority | Elkton, MI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Saginaw Community Foundation | Saginaw, MI | $34,409 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Frankenmuth Chamber of Commerce | Frankenmuth, MI | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hope for the Forgotten Outreach | Reese, MI | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vassar Music Boosters | Vassar, MI | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Swan Valley High School | Saginaw, MI | $23,968 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Pauls Lutheran Church and School | Millington, MI | $22,758 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tuscola Youth Gymnastics | Vassar, MI | $22,374 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Frankenmuth Farmers Market | Frankenmuth, MI | $20,448 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Heritage Athletic Association | Saginaw, MI | $20,375 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vassar Historical Society | Vassar, MI | $20,320 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Frankenmuth | Frankenmuth, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Millington Arbela Fire Department | Millington, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Parent Booster USA Inc | Frankenmuth, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Elizabeth School | Reese, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kingston Fire Department | Kingston, MI | $19,900 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Central Michigan Amateur Network | Grand Blanc, MI | $19,073 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Read Association of Saginaw County | Saginaw, MI | $17,750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Frankenmuth Historical Association | Frankenmuth, MI | $15,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Blumfield Fire Department | Saginaw, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan | Kalamazoo, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ram Products | Frankenmuth, MI | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Huron County Community Foundation | Bad Axe, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Saint Michaels Evangelical Lutheran Church | Reese, MI | $12,050 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Michigan | Lansing, MI | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Spaulding Township Fire Fighters Association | Saginaw, MI | $11,370 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Birch Run Taymouth Parents for Youth Association | Birch Run, MI | $10,515 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Legion | Saginaw, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Birch Run Schools | Birch Run, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hemlock Community Pep Club | Hemlock, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Saginaw Symphony Association | Saginaw, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lakeville Wrestling Alumni Association Inc | Otisville, MI | $9,104 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Heart of the City Development Center | Saginaw, MI | $8,900 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Millington Youth Wrestling | Millington, MI | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Reese Public School | Reese, MI | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bridgeport High School | Bridgeport, MI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Marathon Twp Community Park | Columbiaville, MI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
1 of 37 (3%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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.
- Hope for the Forgotten
PURCHASE TRAILER AND LABELING - City of Frankenmuth
FANS FOR HARVEY KERN FOR PICKLE BALL ETC - Central Mi Emergergency Network
BAY AREA AMATEUR RADION IMPROVEMENTS - Blumfield Fire Department
OBTAIN NEW SCBAS FOR FIRE SERVICE - Girl Scouts Heart
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IN COMMUNITY TROOPS - Birch Run Taymouh Pfy Assoc
FOOTBALL HELMETS FOR YOUTH SPORTS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 of 37 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 16 | $308,503 | $18,875 |
| 2022 | 4 | $45,504 | $8,802 |
| 2023 | 13 | $209,232 | $15,000 |
| 2024 | 5 | $69,375 | $10,000 |
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
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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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $15,400 -- 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 Credit Unions Chartered in the State of's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 4 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: Po Box 209, Frankenmuth, MI, 48734.
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