· Private foundation
Appletree Hill Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEAT 4 HEROES | $20,000 |
| THE CASSIE HINES SHOES CANCER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| RSA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TRINITY COMMUNITY CARE | $10,000 |
| THE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST | $10,000 |
| WOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHRINERS CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS | $10,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $10,000 |
| FLEECE & THANK YOU | $10,000 |
| FURNITURE BANK OF METRO DETROIT | $10,000 |
| PARENTS & FRIENDS OF GLEN H PETERS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NEXT STEP FOR SENIORS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BIG FAMILY OF MICHIGAN | $8,000 |
| A REJOYCEFUL ANIMAL RESCUE | $8,000 |
| ALMOST HOME ANIMAL RESCUE | $8,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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
- PWPaws With A Cause7× · 2019–2025 · $49k · revenue +86%
- RFRSA FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +74%
- TFTHE FURNITURE RESOURCE CENTER4× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- AOANGELS OF HOPE A FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +91%
- 1F13 FOREVERone grant, 2022 · $20k
- AFANNJENETTE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
Fuzzy Pawz is a small group of dedicated volunteers who open their homes and their hearts to unwanted dogs and cats. Our non-profit rescue does not have a facility but rather places each animal into a private home. We supply all vet care,…
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
Paws need people strive to rescue pets from shelters and provide a place they can stay until they are adopted. they provide pets to veterans through its therapy pet program.
To provide comfort, understanding and support during the times of grief while building a basis to both save and enhance the lives of as many of god's creatures as possible.
Our mission is to provide safe, loving foster homes for animals in need, offering them a second chance at life while working tirelessly to find them permanent, caring families. we are dedicated to rescue, rehabilitation, and responsible…
We rescue pets from neglect foster them and then adopt them to suitable families
At Paws From Afar Rescue, a 501c3, New England foster based dog rescue, where the wagging tails meet their happy tails. Our mission is a joyful one: to sprinkle a little magic in matching rescue dogs with their perfect human buddies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Family of Michigan Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jazmines Journey. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 19. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 64 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 Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF HOPE A FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RSA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FURNITURE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds MAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds FESTIVAL OF TREES INC ↗
- Who funds MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION ↗
- Who funds MACOMB FOSTER CLOSET ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS 1 HEART ↗
- Who funds FLEECE & THANK YOU ↗
- Who funds A REJOYCEFUL ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CASSIE HINES SHOES CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds JAZMINES JOURNEY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THRILLA GIVES INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Barton Malow Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Strunk Foundation · Four County Community Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Edward Jones Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Appletree Hill Foundation 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.
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.