· Private foundation
Begonia Charitable 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ETHOS MUSIC CENTER | $22,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| MASHUP ROCK AND ROLL MUSICAL | $14,000 |
| MICHIGAN MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| GENERATIONS AHEAD | $10,000 |
| CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $7,500 |
| MANISTEE COUNTY TOURISM AUTHORITY | $6,050 |
| CENTRAL LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ESTIARY CENTER FOR LIVING & HEALING ARTS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TRAVERSE CITY AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS LEAP | $5,000 |
| BELLAIRE COMMUNITY YOUTH INITIATIVE | $5,000 |
| CROSSHATCH CENTER FOR ART AND ECOLOGY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
Ethos Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +39%
RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND5× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +183%- NANEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC5× · 2019–2023 · $52k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
- TCTRAVERSE CITY TITONS ROWINGone grant, 2019 · $11k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST MICHIGANone grant, 2023 · $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 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.
Harvest Theatre Co is a professional theatre and training program for Flint youth ages 13-19 years old. We use the theatrical arts to instill confidence, self worth, and discipline in the most vulnerable population of our city. In 2022 we…
The mission of the Kalamazoo Civic Theatre, with community partners and volunteers, is to create and deliver engaging, inspiring theatrical productions and educational experiences that spark delight, build community, encourage…
Mixed Blood Theatre Company uses theater to disrupt injustice. We are a social justice organization catalyzing action and change through art. Our work is guided by deep community engagement and rooted in radical hospitality.
Friends of Noise is a non-profit organization built on the values of collectivism and restorative justice. We seek to transform the culture of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth access to the music industry. We foster a healthy ecosystem for all ages…
Neutral Zone is a transformative, youth-driven community where youth embrace their power, ignite their creativity, and launch their future to build equity, justice, and collective liberation.
The mission of the northwest michigan arts & culture network ("the network") is to harness the collective power of the creative sector to cultivate vibrant communities by strengthening the regional ecosystem that supports arts and culture.…
Good luck Macbeth is a community where the theatrical arts and an integral aspect of life and the life of an artist is integral to the theatre. To bring that vision to reality. GLM aims to create relevant and impactful works of art that…
Park City Presents is on a mission to transform the narrative in Bridgeport through the power of creative arts and music by offering high-quality, immersive music tech educational opportunities to city youth and presenting live…
The traverse city film festival is committed to showing just great movies and helping to save one of americas few indigenous art forms - the cinema. we are committed to showing great movies that both entertain and enlighten the audience.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Old Town Playhouse Inc and the most unlike its peers is On the Ground. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 42 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 Ethos Inc ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds Parallel 45 Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology ↗
- Who funds Traverse City Dance Project ↗
- Who funds MASHUP ROCK & ROLL MUSICAL ↗
- Who funds The Great Lakes Childrens Museum ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS AHEAD ↗
- Who funds Title Track ↗
- Who funds BELLAIRE COMMUNITY YOUTH INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds On The Ground ↗
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: Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Green Brick Foundation Inc · Oleson Foundation · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Begonia Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Raphael House of Portland — 12% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 12% of income from government
- Ethos Inc — 9% 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.