Dickinson Area Community Foundation
Iron Mountian, MI · EIN 38-3218990. Reported 73 grants totalling $1,293,450 to 35 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, 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 Dickinson Area Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 35 distinct organizations, with 28% 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. 59% 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 $8,948. Half of what it reported fell between $6,800 and $20,684; the smallest was $5,008 and the largest $86,985. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dickinson Hospitals Foundation | Iron Mountain, MI | $358,656 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Dickinson Iron Community Services Agency | Iron Mountain, MI | $128,815 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Salvation Army | Hoffman Estates, IL | $111,203 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Dickinson County Humane Society | Quinnesec, MI | $104,984 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Salvation Army | Southfield, MI | $87,015 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Dickinson County Cancer Unit | Kingsford, MI | $37,302 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Menominee Range Historical Foundation | Iron Mountain, MI | $35,085 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Northwoods Airlifline Ltd | Kingsford, MI | $34,695 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Northern Lights YMCA Inc | Escanaba, MI | $29,535 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| D&d K9 Dynamics | Gladstone, MI | $28,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bay Cliff Health Camp | Big Bay, MI | $27,917 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Imagination Factory Childrens Museum | Iron Mountain, MI | $25,658 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Felch Township | Felch, MI | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Norway Township | Vulcan, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sagola Township | Channing, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Forest Park School District | Crystal Falls, MI | $21,010 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Grace United Methodist Church | Norway, MI | $19,115 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Alpha Senior Citizens Center | Alpha, MI | $15,953 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Dickinson High School Band | Felch, MI | $15,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Connectional Council of Global Methodist Church | Lubbock, TX | $13,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Dickinson Trail Network | Iron Mountain, MI | $12,389 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Mastodon Township | Crystal Falls, MI | $11,700 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Crystal Theatre | Crystal Falls, MI | $11,574 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of the Braumart | Iron Mountain, MI | $11,256 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| City of Iron Mountain Downtown Development Authority | Iron Mountain, MI | $9,859 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Iron Mountain Public Schools | Iron Mountain, MI | $9,490 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Dickinson Iron Intermediate School District | Kingsford, MI | $8,624 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Little League Baseball Inc | Iron Mountain, MI | $7,680 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dickinson County Sheriff's Office | Iron Mountain, MI | $6,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Camp Batawagama | Iron River, MI | $6,319 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Crystal Falls Comtemporary Center | Crystal Falls, MI | $6,184 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Iron County Little League | Iron River, MI | $5,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wild Rivers Invasive Species Coalition | Kingsford, MI | $5,795 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Light at the Inn | Kingsford, MI | $5,537 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Diocesan Council of Marquette Mi Society of St Vincent De Paul | Marquette, MI | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
17 of 35 (49%) 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.
- Dickinson County Memorial Hospital
GRANT TO BE USED FOR HOSPITAL IMPROVEMENTS. - Salvation Army
GRANT TO BE USED FOR OPERATING EXPENSES. - Alpha Senior Citizens Center
GRANT TO BE USED FOR ROOF REPLACEMENT. - Grace United Methodist Church
GRANT TO BE USED FOR MEALS SERVED FOR LOCAL HOMELESS POPULATION. - City of Iron Mountain Downtown Development Authority
GRANT TO BE USED FOR SPECIAL USE UMBRELLA ART PROJECT.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 14 of 35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | $234,419 | $8,991 |
| 2022 | 10 | $186,420 | $8,619 |
| 2023 | 13 | $217,895 | $8,118 |
| 2024 | 14 | $320,536 | $8,037 |
| 2025 | 19 | $334,180 | $10,194 |
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
90% 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 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 $8,948 -- 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 Dickinson Area Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). 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.
Address of record on the latest return: 220 E Hughitt Street, Iron Mountian, MI, 49801.
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