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Plinth

· Private foundation

A G Bishop Charitable Trust R68349001

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$750k
Granted FY2022
46
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$123kEducation$102kHuman Services$85kHealth$79kYouth Development$75kReligion$51kRecreation & Sports$50kFood & Nutrition$40kOther$0
02FY2022 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 46 grants below total $694,815 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $750,315 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $55,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k10 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $546k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Flint Institute of Arts$50,000
Flint Cultural Center Corporation, Inc.$50,000
The Trustees of the Mott Comm College$25,000
YWCA OF Greater Flint$25,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Flint$25,000
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan$25,000
Cmmunity Foundation of Greater Flint$25,000
Genesys Hurley Cancer Institute$24,000
Kettering University$20,088
St Lukes N.E.W. Life Center$20,000
Crim Fitness Foundation, Inc$20,000
Evergreen Community Development Inc$20,000
United Way of Genesee County$20,000
Genesee County Young Life$20,000
Genesee County Free Medical Clinic$20,000
02Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Greater Flint Health Coalition Inc

Improve the health of genesee county residents. improve the quality and cost effectiveness of the health care system in our community.

Health
2
Flint & Genesee Group

To promote the common economic interests of all the commercial enterprises in the Genesee County, Michigan community. The Organization strives to enhance the business climate in the area and advocates for public policy that supports…

Community Improvement
3
The Michigan Glass Project
Public Benefit
4
International Center of Greater Flint

To celebrate and promote our international diversity because it makes us a stronger community

Public Benefit
5
Child Welfare Society of Flint
—
6
Food Bank Council of Michigan Inc

Alleviate and prevent hunger amongst Michigan residents.

—
7
Flint Social Club

Flint Social Club is to lower access barriers for the Flint food community by mentoring chefs and creating equitable opportunities for growth.

Employment
8
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
9
The Flint Children's Museum

To inspire a love for learning in science, technology, engineering, math, and art, and awaken imagination through hands-on play.

Arts & Culture
10
Community Pride Mi
Public Benefit
11
Great Lakes Bay Health Centers

To provide high quality health care to individuals and community groups in Saginaw, Bay, and other nearby counties. Services are provided without regard to race, beliefs or ability to pay.

Health
12
Flint Public Art Project

Non Profit Art Organization

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Flint Arts Council and the most unlike its peers is Genesee County Historical & Museum Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Ymca Community CentersUnited Way AffiliatesAffordable Housing Developm…Community Hospital SystemsYouth Sports ProgramsDomestic Violence and Sexua…Local History MuseumsFood Pantries and AssistanceEnvironmental Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%4%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr14%39%35–55yr18%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr14%34%35–55yr18%39%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
12%
6,511/53,830

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Cmmunity Foundation of Greater Flint — $25,000 · OtherCmmunity Foundation of Greater FlintThe Trustees of the Mott Comm College — $25,000 · OtherThe Trustees of the Mott Comm CollegeGenesee County Young Life — $20,000 · OtherGenesee County Young LifeTHE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · OtherTHE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INCSt Lukes N.E.W. Life Center — $20,000 · OtherSt Lukes N.E.W. Life CenterDowntown Outreach Ministries — $16,000 · OtherSalvation Army of Genesee/Shiawassee Counties — $15,000 · OtherCOFY Community Outre3ach for Family and Youth — $15,000 · OtherFlint & Genesee Literacy Network-MCC — $15,000 · OtherGreater Flint Area Baseball/Softball — $14,700 · OtherFlint District Library (DBA Flint Public Library — $13,000 · OtherFloyd J. McCree Theatre & Fine Arts — $12,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY — $20,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY+18 more — $137,527 · Other+18 moreFlint Cultural Center Corporation — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFlint Cultural Ce…Flint Institute of Arts — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFlint Institute o…Carriage Town Ministries — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCarriage Town Min…GENESYS HURLEY CANCER INSTITUTE — $24,000 · HealthGENESYS HURL…GENESEE COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $20,000 · HealthGENESEE COUN…EVERGREEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPEMENT IN — $20,000 · HealthEVERGREEN CO…MCLAREN FLINT FOUNDATION — $15,000 · HealthMCLAREN FLIN…Kettering University — $20,088 · EducationFLINT COMMUNITY EDUCATION FUND — $17,000 · EducationYWCA OF GREATER FLINT — $25,000 · Human ServicesFENTON CENTER OF HOPE — $10,000 · Human ServicesBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLINT AND GENESEE COUNTY — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentELE'S PLACE INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFood Bank of Eastern Michigan — $25,000 · Food & NutritionEASTSIDE COMPASSIONATE MISSION — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$368,727Arts & Culture$110,000Health$79,000Education$37,088Human Services$35,000Youth Development$35,000Food & Nutrition$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFlint Cultural Center Corporation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFlint Institute of Arts — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER FLINT — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FLINT AND GENESEE COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetGENESYS HURLEY CANCER INSTITUTE — $24,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKettering University — $20,088 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENESEE COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $20,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEVERGREEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPEMENT IN — $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFLINT COMMUNITY EDUCATION FUND — $17,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetMCLAREN FLINT FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYMCA of Greater Flint — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarriage Town Ministries — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFENTON CENTER OF HOPE — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMICHIGAN BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMetro Community DevelopmentInc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHELTER OF FLINT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetELE'S PLACE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GENESEE COUNTY — $6,527 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER FLINT ARTS COUNCIL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFLINT SCIENCE FAIR INC — $5,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetEASTSIDE COMPASSIONATE MISSION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGenesee County Historical & Museum Society — $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Charles Stewart Mott …Stella & Frederick Lo…Community Foundation …Nartel Family Foundat…Ruth Mott FoundationThe Whiting FoundationTummala Charitable Fo…The Hagerman Foundati…Anna Paulina Foundati…Merkley Charitable Tr…The Serra FoundationBurroughs Memorial Tr…
Charles Stewart Mott FoundationMI39.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Nartel Family Foundation · Ruth Mott Foundation · The Whiting Foundation · Tummala Charitable Foundation · The Hagerman Foundation · Anna Paulina Foundation · Merkley Charitable Trust · The Serra Foundation · Burroughs Memorial Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $878k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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