How much does Bierlein Companies Foundation give?

Bierlein Companies Foundation reported 108 grants totaling $250,095 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 65 and 136 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Bierlein Companies Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (18%), Recreation & Sports (17%), Education (16%).

Who are Bierlein Companies Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Urban Racquet Sports Foundation ($53k), Greater Midland Community Ctrs Inc ($50k), Covenant Healthcare Foundation ($34k).

Does Bierlein Companies Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Bierlein Companies Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Bierlein Companies Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Midland Area Community Foundation, Saginaw Community Foundation, Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation.

Where is Bierlein Companies Foundation based?

Bierlein Companies Foundation is based in MI.

Bierlein Companies Foundation

Bierlein Companies Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Bierlein Companies Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$250k

Granted FY2024still arriving

108

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$34k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$172kRecreation & Sports$161kEducation$150kPhilanthropy$100kHuman Services$74kCommunity Improvement$52kEnvironment$37kHousing & Shelter$36kOther$0

02FY2024 · 108 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k102 grants · $118k
$10k–50k6 grants · $133k

$750

Median grant

States reached

$5.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
COVENANT HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION	$33,700
SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$28,800
RESCUE MINISTRIES OF MID-MICHIGAN	$25,000
GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CENTERS DO	$20,000
SAGINAW Y M C A	$15,000
GREAT ER MIDLAND COMMUNITY TENNIS CEN	$10,000
TRI STAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	$5,500
ONE HUNDRED CLUB OF SAGINAW	$5,330
SAGINAW FUTURE INC	$5,000
SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY	$5,000
TEMPLE THEATRE FOUNDATION	$5,000
CAN COUNCIL	$4,500
SWAN VALLEY SCHOOLS	$3,550
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREAT LAKES BAY	$3,350
SVSU FOUNDATION	$3,300

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$677k · 119 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

119 repeat relationships: 78 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

119

126

Total granted

$677k

$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%

+16%

Still filing today

45%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

GM
GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +16%
RM
Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan
5× · 2020–2024 · $28k · revenue +25%
TO
THE ONE HUNDRED CLUB OF SAGINAW COU
5× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +610%

Funded once

ST
SAGINAW TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT
one grant, 2022 · $10k
GL
GREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -8%
YO
YMCA of Saginaw
one grant, 2020 · $10k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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Mymichigan Medical Center Saginaw

Creating healthy communities - together

Health

Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

—

Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Community Improvement

Michigan State Medical Society Foundation

To advance the field of health for the public good.

—

Michigan Health Leadership Fund

To advance the well-being of michigan residents through the promotion of sound public policies and responsible legislation. the purpose of these activities is to promote policies that strengthen the michigan health care system.

—

Great Lakes Bay Health Centers

To provide high quality health care to individuals and community groups in Saginaw, Bay, and other nearby counties. Services are provided without regard to race, beliefs or ability to pay.

Health

Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health

Mymichigan Health

Creating healthy communities - together

Health

Home Builders Association of Michigan

A voice of the building industry in Michigan. The primary purpose is to positively influence the legislative, regulatory and legal issues that affect the industry.

—

Michigan Farm Bureau

Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.

—

Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

—

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mymichigan Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Temple Theatre Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 275 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

105/107

Grantees still filing

61/107

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$550,835Philanthropy$87,190Recreation & Sports$75,000Health$68,675Youth Development$55,750Education$40,000Environment$33,910

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Midland Area Community FoundationMI62.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Midland Area Community Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation · Morley Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Frank N Andersen Foundation · The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Dow Company Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bierlein Companies Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bierlein Companies Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record

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The camps

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By state

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