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OTSEGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

EIN 38-3216235 GAYLORD, MI

Revenue 2025
$3,563,190
Expenses 2025
$1,213,031

Program services were 89.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T31
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 344

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

ACTIVATE GENEROSITY FOR A STRONG COMMUNITY. THIS IS DONE BY BUILDING ENDOWMENTS, AWARDING GRANTS AND CONVENING LEADERS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ACTIVATE GENEROSITY FOR A STRONG COMMUNITY.

  • DONOR CENTERED FUND MANAGEMENT - INCLUDES DONOR ADVISED FUNDS. THE FOUNDATION WORKS WITH DONORS WHO WANT TO ENGAGE IN LOCAL PHILANTHROPY. THE FOUNDATION HELPS TO FIND PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS THAT ALIGN WITH THEIR OBJECTIVES AND DISTRIBUTE GRANTS ACCORDINGLY. FUND FOR THE COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT INCLUDES FIELD OF INTEREST AND UNRESTRICTED FUNDS. THE FOUNDATION WORKS TO AWARD GRANTS FROM THESE FUNDS TO MAKE THE MOST IMPACT ON THE EVER-CHANGING NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES TO ADVANCE THE COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $334,317 · Grants $332,968 · Revenue $16,949

  • COMMUNITY DRIVEN PHILANTHROPY -PROACTIVE AND RESPONSE PROGRAMING TO MEET THE EVER-CHANGING NEEDS AND CAPITALIZE ON OPPORTUNITIES. UTILIZING FUNDS FOR THE COMMUNITY THIS PROGRAMMING INCLUDES THE COMMUNITY GRANT PROGRAM (ANNUAL COMPETITIVE GRANT CYCLE), COMMUNITY CHOICE GRANTS (OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE COMMUNITY TO NOMINATE AND SELECT RECEIPTS), CAPACITY BUILDING INITIATIVES (ORGANIZATIONS WORKING WITH A CONSULTANT OR REQUESTING FUNDS THAT SUPPORT THEIR SKILLS AND STRUCTURE AS AN ORGANIZATION), AND HIGH IMPACT PARTNERS (ORGANIZATIONS COMMITTED TO PURSUING THE COMMUNITY'S GREATEST OPPORTUNITIES AND ADDRESSING THE MOST CRITICAL CHALLENGES).

    Expenses $491,687 · Grants $180,673

  • THE DISASTER RESPONSE FUND (DRF) OF THE FOUNDATION WAS ESTABLISHED TO PROVIDE A CENTRALIZED OPPORTUNITY FOR DONORS TO INVEST IN DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS AND A SUPPORT MECHANISM FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS RESPONDING TO CRISIS. THE FOUNDATION'S GOAL IS TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH THE NONPROFIT, GOVERNMENT, PHILANTHROPIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS TO ACCELERATE RECOVERY FOR A THRIVING, RESILIENT, AND EVEN STRONGER GAYLORD.THE DRF AWARDS GRANTS TO ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE ADDRESSING IMMEDIATE RELIEF, SHORT-TERM RECOVERY, AND LONG-TERM REBUILDING. OUR LOCAL NONPROFITS CONTINUE TO DEMONSTRATE INCREDIBLE RESILIENCE, INGENUITY, AND TENACITY AS THEY INCREASE AND ADAPT THEIR PROGRAMS TO MEET THE NEEDS HEIGHTENED BY THE DISASTERS.

    Expenses $261,941 · Grants $260,096

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • DANA BENSINGER

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $75,220
    From this org
    $74,564
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $656
    Hours/week
    32

  • JUSTINE HEES

    CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANNETTE WELLS

    VICE CHAIRPERSON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMES CAMILLER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NANCY KUSSROW

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAN KELLOGG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRIAN SWITALSKI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATY XENAKIS-MAKOWSKI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVE BEYERS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRANDIE MEISNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TANNER CATT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHERIE NUTTER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AVERY HUSTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BOB WILSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MERISA CAMPBELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TONI STRAUGHEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $3,563,190
    Expenses
    $1,213,031
    Contributions
    $2,704,032
    Grants paid
    $773,737
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,287,760
    Expenses
    $2,102,426
    Contributions
    $2,246,921
    Grants paid
    $1,664,363
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,528,294
    Expenses
    $2,124,801
    Contributions
    $1,537,188
    Grants paid
    $1,733,220
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,643,437
    Expenses
    $1,572,787
    Contributions
    $4,121,091
    Grants paid
    $1,229,778

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,234,595
    Expenses
    $507,231
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,104,663

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $834,598
    Expenses
    $564,289
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,724,279

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $931,594
    Expenses
    $382,060
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,746,443

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $628,818
    Expenses
    $294,969
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,689,279

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,144,827
    Expenses
    $288,622
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,979,920

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $373,884
    Expenses
    $248,378
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,729,340

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $346,935
    Expenses
    $357,315
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,720,993

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $223,073
    Expenses
    $235,528
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,673,094

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $205,484
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,295,819

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $205,484
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,295,819

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.