· Private foundation
Barton J Ingraham & Gail G Ingraham Foundation
Its FY2023 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $79,461 |
| LEELANAU CONSERVANCY | $58,922 |
| GREENPEACE FUND INC | $35,457 |
| UNITY CHURCH | $35,457 |
| BOTANIC GARDEN AT HISTORIC BARNS | $35,457 |
| OLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE | $35,457 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| NORTH SKY RAPTOR SANCTUARY | $4,596 |
| FROM BOOKS TO BRILLIANCE | $4,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- OTOLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE INC4× · 2017–2023 · $166k · revenue +38%
GREENPEACE FUND INC2× · 2022–2023 · $165k · revenue +5%- TSTRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- MEMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $27k · revenue +57%
- MJMONARCH JOINT VENTUREgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +140%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $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.
To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.
It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…
The lake leelanau lake association is dedicated to protecting and enhancing the quality and beauty of lake leelanau and its surrounding watershed for current and future generations.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
The green lake conservancy permanently and proactively protects and preserves special places, primarily in the green lake watershed and county by oppering conservation expertise, strattegies, and legal tools for the benefits of humans,…
To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
Up land conservancy protects land in michigan's upper peninsula by owning it as nature preserves and working forest reserves, and through conservation easements(perpetual, voluntary agreements that guard the conservation values of the…
As conservation leaders, the red river zoo connects our community to nature and inspires people to help save species.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Resource Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Good Gaali. 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 33 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 — 0.0% 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.
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.
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 LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC ↗
- Who funds MONARCH JOINT VENTURE ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds North Sky Raptor Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds PADDLE ANTRIM ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds REINING LIBERTY RANCH ↗
- Who funds Grand Traverse Pavilions Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BEES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sleeping Bear Forever DBA Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SAVING BIRDS THRU HABITAT ↗
- Who funds OLD ART BUILDING ↗
- Who funds GRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA INC ↗
- Who funds FOR LOVE OF WATER ↗
- Who funds Good Gaali ↗
- Who funds SEEDS ↗
- Who funds XERCES SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Leelanau Historical 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: Oleson Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · Green Brick Foundation Inc · Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Worthington Family Foundation · Edmund F and Virginia B Ball Foundation Inc · The Herrington-Fitch Family Foundation Inc C/O Leslie Lee · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community 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 Barton J Ingraham & Gail G Ingraham 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.
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% 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.