· Private foundation
Bernard J and Camille Cebelak 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
- $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACTS XXIX | $250,000 |
| ALPHA WOMEN'S CENTER | $200,000 |
| CHRISTMAS OUTREACH OF ISABELLA COUNTY | $100,000 |
| REACH THE FORGOTTEN JAIL MINISTRY | $50,000 |
| ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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 +95% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 16 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 FY2025, 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
- AXACTS XXIX - Mobilizing for Mission7× · 2019–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +128% · 27% of their budget
- MTMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES6× · 2018–2023 · $600k · revenue +136%
- AIActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty6× · 2018–2024 · $600k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- ARAMAZON RELIEFgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $101k · revenue +31%
- HPHELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Incone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -44%
- ECENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +92%
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.
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
Provide volunteers to assist people in need (such as widows) and organizations in need (such as churches) with repairs and maintenance of homes and buildings.
Catholic human services inc. enhances the lives of those we serve by providing hope-filled social, emotional and spiritual support to all people.
Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.
The mission of the St. Vincent Catholic Charities is the work of the Catholic Church to share the love of Christ by performing corporal and spiritual works of Mercy.
Provide meals for the needy in isabella county, michigan.
Create positive change in the lives of those we serve.
Christian Services serves as a resource center and clearinghouse matching resources of over 200 Lansing, MI area churches to needs from local indigent people. Coordination of Thanksgiving food baskets, clothes closets, and transitional…
Midland's Open Door (MOD) operates two crisis shelters, one for women and children and one for men. MOD's programs are designed to meet the immediate needs of homeless individuals by providing a safe and loving environment where each…
Catholic Community Response Team provides direct support and referral services to those in crisis needing emergency assistance to meet their basic needs. We do it in a manner inspired by the Gospel of Jesus. Our focus is to keep families…
To provide 24-hour residential substance abuse treatment for adult homeless men in a professional, compassionate, and therapeutic environment conducive to reducing drug and alcohol addiction and promoting their return to health,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mel Trotter Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 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.
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 39 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 ACTS XXIX - Mobilizing for Mission ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds Hospitality In the Name of Christ ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS OUTREACH OF ISABELLA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Faith Weavers of St Mary ↗
- Who funds BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMAZON RELIEF ↗
- Who funds HELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc ↗
- Who funds ENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM AND JANET STRICKLER NONPROFIT CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHERINES HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE NYC INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN BALL ZOO ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST LEOS SOUP KITCHEN ↗
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 · Consumers Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Bernard J and Camille Cebelak 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.
- Hope for Haiti 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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