Manistee County Community
Manistee, MI · EIN 38-2741723. Reported 78 grants totalling $3,130,930 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 Manistee County Community, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 57 distinct organizations, with 12% 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. 35% 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 $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $36,000; the smallest was $5,404 and the largest $389,820. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Networks Northwest | Traverse City, MI | $389,820 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Manistee Area Public Schools | Manistee, MI | $386,335 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| City of Manistee | Manistee, MI | $222,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Westshore Commmunity College | Scottville, MI | $212,333 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Village of Onekama | Onekama, MI | $193,711 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| City of Manistee | Manistee, MI | $125,404 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dickson Township | Brethren, MI | $121,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Armory Youth Project | Manistee, MI | $119,607 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Betsie Valley Elementary School | Thompsonville, MI | $101,599 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Manistee Catholic Central School | Manistee, MI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Way of Manistee County | Manistee, MI | $73,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Arcadia Township | Arcadia, MI | $70,097 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Manistee Township | Manistee, MI | $68,700 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Manistee County | Manistee, MI | $63,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Friends of Orchard Beach State Park | Manistee, MI | $54,148 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| First Congregational Church of Manistee | Manistee, MI | $52,617 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Portage Lake Watershed Forever | Onekama, MI | $52,368 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Manistee County Library | Kaleva, MI | $49,925 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Historic Vogue Theatre of Manistee | Manistee, MI | $42,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Northwest Michigan Rural Housing Partnership | Traverse City, MI | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Seeds | Traverse City, MI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Village of Kaleva | Kaleva, MI | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Two Lake Collaborative Sewer Authority | Onekama, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Manistee Conservation District | Pleasanton, MI | $32,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Manistee Recreation Association | Manistee, MI | $31,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Manistee Conservation District | Bear Lake, MI | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Manistee County Council on Aging | Manistee, MI | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Village of Onekama | Onekama, MI | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of Smartrails | Bear Lake, MI | $25,400 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts | Manistee, MI | $25,107 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Michigan Department of Natural Resources-Fisheries | Lansing, MI | $24,159 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Spirit of the Woods Conservation Club | Brethren, MI | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Onekama Consolidated Schools | Onekama, MI | $17,135 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Maple Grove Township | Kaleva, MI | $14,889 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Writers Series of Traverse City | Traverse City, MI | $14,135 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Springdale Township | Springdale, MI | $14,130 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Onekama Township | Onekama, MI | $14,110 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Disabled American Veterans | Manistee, MI | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jefferson Community Park Committee Inc | Manistee, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kaleva Historical Society Incorporated | Kaleva, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Manistee Civic Players | Manistee, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Manistee County Community | Manistee, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northern Great Lakes Initiatives | Marquette, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Venture North Funding and Development | Traverse City, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hospice of Michigan Inc | Ann Arbor, MI | $8,060 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Casman Alternative Academy | Manistee, MI | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Our Saviours Historical Society Inc | Manistee, MI | $7,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Manistee Art Institute | Manistee, MI | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lakeshore Childrens Advocacy Center | Manistee, MI | $6,920 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Credit Unions Chartered in the State of Michigan | Plymouth, MI | $6,456 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Music Sparks Meaning | Lansing, MI | $6,190 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Manistee Friendship Society | Manistee, MI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Power Book Bags | Suttons Bay, MI | $5,941 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Manistee Community Kitchen | Manistee, MI | $5,887 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Manistee County Humane Society | Manistee, MI | $5,644 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kcs Angels Inc | Lansing, MI | $5,603 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
16 of 57 (28%) 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.
- Networks Northwest
RECREATION, LEISURE & SPORTS, ATHLETICS - Arcadia Township
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, PROTECTION & BEAUTIFICATION - Village of Onekama
ARTS, CULTURE, HUMANITIES - Two Lake Collaborative Sewer Authority
PUBLIC AFFAIRS/SOCIETY BENEFIT - First Congregational Church of Manistee
RELIGIOUS RELATED/SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT - United Way of Manistee County
HUMAN SERVICE, MULTIPURPOSE & OTHER
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 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 | 17 | $761,002 | $28,000 |
| 2022 | 20 | $1,110,852 | $26,808 |
| 2023 | 23 | $515,070 | $14,110 |
| 2024 | 18 | $744,006 | $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
100% 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
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 $15,000 -- 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 Manistee County Community'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: 400 River Street 50, Manistee, MI, 49660.
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