Four County Community Foundation
Romeo, MI · EIN 38-2736601. Reported 85 grants totalling $1,101,530 to 57 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. For Four County Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 57 distinct organizations, with 9% 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. 40% 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 $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,675 and $16,000; the smallest was $5,624 and the largest $43,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capac Community Schools | Capac, MI | $95,716 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Imlay City Community Schools | Imlay City, MI | $76,836 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Almont Community Schools | Almont, MI | $48,240 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Immanuel Congregational Ucc | Oxford, MI | $46,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Amazing Grace Church of Imlay City | Imlay City, MI | $43,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lions Visually Impaired Youth Camp Inc | Lapeer, MI | $37,713 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Oxford Fire Department | Oxford, MI | $30,507 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Susie Qs Kids Inc | Warren, MI | $30,099 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Love Inc of Greater Lapeer | Lapeer, MI | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Samaritan House | Washington, MI | $29,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Huron-Clinton Metroparks Foundation | Brighton, MI | $27,350 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Child Advocacy Center of Lapeer County | Lapeer, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Crossroads for Youth | Oxford, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Turning Point Inc | Mount Clemens, MI | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of Foster Kids | Shelby Twp, MI | $22,980 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Macomb County Rotating Emergency Shelter Team | Mount Clemens, MI | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Council on Aging Inc Serving St Clair County | Port Huron, MI | $21,184 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Addison Twp Fire Department | Leonard, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dutton Farm Inc | Rochester Hls, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Lapeer Transportation Authority | Lapeer, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Orion Area Youth Assistance | Lake Orion, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Szajna-Carr Inc | Clinton Twp, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Romeo Community Schools | Romeo, MI | $18,150 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Oxford Township Parks & Recreation | Oxford, MI | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lapeer County Isd | Lapeer, MI | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ray Twp Fire Department | Ray, MI | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rsa Foundation | Center Line, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Skyline Camp and Conference Center | Birmingham, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Village of Capac | Capac, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Memphis Community Schools | Memphis, MI | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Village of Dryden | Dryden, MI | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Family Literacy Center | Lapeer, MI | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kiwanis Club of Lapeer Foundation | Lapeer, MI | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Village of Armada | Armada, MI | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Romeo Band Boosters | Washington, MI | $10,451 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Armada Area Historical Society | Armada, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Macomb Foster Closet | Mount Clemens, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Day Foundation for Families | Rochester, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Poblo International | Clinton Twp, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Polly Ann Trailway Management Council Inc | Leonard, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Mary Mystical Ros Parish Armada | Armada, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Michigan | Bruce Twp, MI | $9,068 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Seven Ponds Nature Center | Dryden, MI | $8,502 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dryden Community Schools | Dryden, MI | $8,322 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dryden Township Fire Department | Dryden, MI | $8,008 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Imlay City Downtown Development Authority | Imlay City, MI | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shelby Township Police | Shelby Twp, MI | $7,764 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of the Ray Township Library and Historical Society | Ray, MI | $7,675 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Oxford Public Library | Oxford, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Macomb Symphony Orchestra | Clinton Twp, MI | $7,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trinity Community Care Inc | Shelby Twp, MI | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Armada Area Schools | Armada, MI | $6,241 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hispanic Service Center Inc | Imlay City, MI | $6,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| A Kid Again Inc | Columbus, OH | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Diabetes Association Inc | Arlington, VA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Discovery Center of Macomb | Mount Clemens, MI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| International Association of Lions Clubs | Imlay City, MI | $5,624 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
15 of 57 (26%) 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.
- Camp Oakland
ASSISTANCE FOR AT-RISK YOUTH - Child Advocacy Center of Lapeer County
CONFIDENTIAL INTAKE FACILITY - Capac Community Schools
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES & ATHLETICS - Dutton Farm Inc
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES - Greater Lapeer Transportation Authority
IMLAY CITY MICRO-TRANSIT PILOT PROGRAM - Immanuel Congregational United Church of Christ
NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS PROGRAM
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 27 of 57 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 | $162,250 | $8,785 |
| 2022 | 20 | $251,516 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 22 | $302,822 | $13,052 |
| 2024 | 27 | $384,942 | $12,000 |
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
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.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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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 $10,000 -- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Four County Community Foundation'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.
Address of record on the latest return: 141 S Main Street Suite a, Romeo, MI, 48065.
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