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Baldwin Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENT COUNTY SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% 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.
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 +69% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 1 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- UOUniversity of Michigan5× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +139%
- MFMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL4× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +52%
- GRGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM5× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- MTMEL TROTTER MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $21k · revenue +30%
- GRGRAND RAPIDS HQone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +22%
- ACALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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 Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.
Great river children's museum (grcm) shines a bright light on the power of play to spark children's learning, strengthen families, and build community connections. its dynamic, interactive environments and experiences are a gateway to the…
To present west michigan audiences with high quality broadway productions and to provide student arts education programs, enriching the community through professional performing arts, as well as to expand the diversity of theatre in the…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
The African Resource Center informs connects and equips African immigrants in West Michigan with people and resources to foster a flourishing community in which recent African immigrants can prosper emotionally economically and socially.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
To inspire a love for learning in science, technology, engineering, math, and art, and awaken imagination through hands-on play.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State. 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 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 32 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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State ↗
- Who funds MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds GROUNDSWELL INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS BALLET ↗
- Who funds BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc ↗
- Who funds MY HOUSE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Potters House ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of Kent County Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHN BALL ZOO ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DEGAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS HQ ↗
- Who funds ALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Refugee Education Center ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Steelcase Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The David and Carol Van Andel 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 Baldwin Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx 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.
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