· Private foundation
Aline Underhill Orten Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING & HELPING COMMUNITIES | $10,000 |
| MACOMB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN | $2,500 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NEW ORLEANS | $2,000 |
| NW MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
34 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES5× · 2020–2024 · $51k · revenue +190%- UOUniversity of Michigan4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +140%
- NLNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK5× · 2017–2021 · $16k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2017 · $13k
- NMNORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTIONone grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue -6%
- UOU OF M - CENTER FOR THE EDUCATION OF WOMENone grant, 2018 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time, to create a future where everyone has access to nourishing food.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
The mission of metro food rescue is simple; waste less, feed more. we rescue food that would otherwise be discarded and deliver it to a network of food partners. thereby, helping to feed individuals and families in need.
The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…
Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…
To alleviate hunger and enhance the well-being of our community by providing nutritious food and support to individuals and families in need. we are dedicated to fostering a more equitable and connected community through compassionate…
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.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Michigan Community Action and the most unlike its peers is Early Learning Focus Inc. 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
37 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. 37 of the 53 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Early Learning Focus Inc ↗
- Who funds WINNING FUTURES ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds St John's Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MACOMB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Sarasota County Inc ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE ANIMAL ADOPTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS ↗
- Who funds RESURRECTION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD MACOMB HOSPITAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR SEABIRDS INC ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Dte Energy Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Green Brick Foundation Inc · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Gap Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Julius H and Barbara B Beers Family Foundation
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Aline Underhill Orten Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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