· Private foundation
Beusse & Porter Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY | $21,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COLLEGE | $21,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATER | $21,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS BALLET | $21,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM | $21,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN | $15,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN | $13,000 |
| MARY FREE BED ART THERAPY | $10,000 |
| BEACON HILL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LAND CONSERVANCY OF WEST MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PORTLAND | $5,000 |
| SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS OF PORTLAND | $5,000 |
| MAZAMAS | $4,000 |
| BILLY BEAR HUG FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
26 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- GRGRAND RAPIDS BALLET5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +154%
- GRGRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +6%
- KCKALAMAZOO COLLEGE5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- EGEAST GRAND RAPIDS SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +68%
- IUI UNDERSTANDone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
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…
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Rapids Ballet and the most unlike its peers is Chamber Choir of Grand Rapids 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 45 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 33 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 GRAND RAPIDS BALLET ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Land Conservancy of West Michigan ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds BEACON HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mazamas ↗
- Who funds DA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds EAST GRAND RAPIDS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UKANDU ↗
- Who funds HEARTS OF GOLD INC ↗
- Who funds Innovation Law Lab ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER CHOIR OF GRAND RAPIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Michigan Advocacy Program ↗
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 · The Meijer Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Brookby Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · The Wege Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer 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 Beusse & Porter Family 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.
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.