Catholic Community Foundation of
Saginaw, MI · EIN 20-4595721. Reported 126 grants totalling $5,741,189 to 40 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 Catholic Community Foundation of, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for religion (NTEE X12).
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 21% 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. 84% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $17,799. Half of what it reported fell between $9,301 and $37,490; the smallest was $5,008 and the largest $917,400. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Gerard Society Inc | Saginaw, MI | $1,193,764 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Catholic Diocese of Saginaw | Saginaw, MI | $1,063,787 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bay Area Catholic Schools | Bay City, MI | $743,548 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nouvel Catholic Central High School | Saginaw, MI | $533,591 | 9 | 4 | 2024 |
| Holy Trinity Parish of Pinconning | Pinconning, MI | $313,663 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sacred Hear Church of Gladwin | Gladwin, MI | $216,009 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Saint Dominic Parish of Saginaw | Saginaw, MI | $187,090 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Saint Brigid of Kildare Parish of Midland | Midland, MI | $164,165 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nativity of the Lord Parish of Alma and St Louis | Alma, MI | $123,864 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ave Maria Parish of Lexington | Lexington, MI | $106,515 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish of Bay City | Bay City, MI | $101,059 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Anthony St Joseph Parish Community | Auburn, MI | $93,931 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Knights of Columbus | Harbor Beach, MI | $93,054 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Elizabeth Catholic School | Reese, MI | $88,780 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Saint Joseph the Worker Parish of Beal City | Mt Pleasant, MI | $82,277 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| All Saints Parish of Bay City | Bay City, MI | $70,731 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Our Lady of Peace Parish of Bay City | Bay City, MI | $63,026 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Church of the Holy Spirit | Saginaw, MI | $43,177 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Franciscan Poor Clare Nuns | Saginaw, MI | $40,155 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Saint Mary University Parish of Mt Pleasant | Mt Pleasant, MI | $39,944 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Saginaw Area Catholic | Saginaw, MI | $38,335 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Christ the Good Shepherd Parish | Saginaw, MI | $37,743 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Saint Jude Thaddeus Parish of Essexville | Essexville, MI | $37,323 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cathedral of Mary of the Assumption Parish in Saginaw | Saginaw, MI | $36,347 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Saint John Paul II Parish | Saginaw, MI | $31,337 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Blessed Sacrament Parish of Midland | Midland, MI | $28,736 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Holy Name of Mary Parish of Harbor Beach | Harbor Beach, MI | $23,463 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sacred Heart Parish of Mt Pleasant | Mt Pleasant, MI | $22,605 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Prince of Peace Parish | Linwood, MI | $19,127 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Love for Lukulu Inc | Merrill, MI | $16,277 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish of Midland | Midland, MI | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Francis Home | Saginaw, MI | $12,373 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Our Lady of Grace Parish of Sanford | Sanford, MI | $10,157 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| East Side Soup Kitchen | Saginaw, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Holy Parish Christian Service Commi | Sandusky, MI | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| I Support the 1 | Saginaw, MI | $8,761 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Furnishing Friends Inc | Essexville, MI | $6,382 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sacred Heart Academy Foundation Inc | Mt Pleasant, MI | $5,072 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Its All About the Cross Ministries Inc | Saginaw, MI | $5,013 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Isidore Parish | Grand Rapids, MI | $5,008 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
29 of 40 (72%) 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 6 of 40 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 | 31 | $1,836,811 | $17,136 |
| 2022 | 29 | $1,154,180 | $18,212 |
| 2023 | 31 | $1,312,369 | $17,994 |
| 2024 | 35 | $1,437,829 | $16,815 |
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 $17,799 -- 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 Catholic Community Foundation 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 35 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 5800 Weiss Street, Saginaw, MI, 48603.
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