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Boccia Family 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.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$350
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Environment$4kRecreation & Sports$2kReligion$550Health$500Food & Nutrition$500Housing & Shelter$350Education$250Arts & Culture$200Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$250
Median grant
1
States reached
$21k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Grass River Natural Area$350
Safe Harbor of TC$250
Glacial Hills via the NMMBA$250
Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy$250
Paddle Antrim$240
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society: $250 → 9%Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy: $250 → 7%Lighthouse Michigan: $250 → 8%Grass River Natural Area: $1k → 9%Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy: $500 → 10%Genesis Percussion: $200 → 11%Gleanor's Community Food Bank: $250 → 21%Head for the Cure Foundation: $250 → 15%Dynamic Catholic Institute: $250 → 11%Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy: $100 → 7%Grass River Natural Area: $350 → 9%Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy: $250 → 10%Dynamic Catholic: $150 → 11%Grass River Natural Area: $250 → 9%Safe Harbor of TC: $250 → 10%Dynamic Catholic: $150 → 11%Paddle Antrim: $250 → 9%Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy: $200 → 10%Helping Heroes Kids: $250 → 9%Safe Harbor of Grand Traverse: $100 → 10%Grass River Natural Area: $250 → 9%Glacial Hills via the NMMBA: $250 → 9%Paddle Antrim: $250 → 9%Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy: $250 → 9%Paddle Antrim: $250 → 9%Paddle Antrim: $240 → 9%Grass River Natural Area: $200 → 9%Friends of Glacial Hills: $200 → 9%Paddle Antrim: $150 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6k · 5 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$6k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHealthReligionCrime & LegalHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • GR
    GRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +122%
  • GT
    GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +230%
  • PA
    PADDLE ANTRIM
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • HF
    HEAD FOR THE CURE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250 · revenue +27%
  • GC
    Gleanor's Community Food Bank
    one grant, 2020 · $250
  • HH
    HELPING HEROS KIDS
    one grant, 2021 · $250

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

04Your field

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.

1
Little Traverse Conservancy Conservation Trust

To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.

2
Coalition to Protect Michigan Resources

The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…

Environment
3
Huron Pines Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc

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…

Environment
4
Michigan Trails & Greenways Alliance

Michigan trails & greenways alliance is the statewide voice for nonmotorized trail users, helping people build, connect and promote trails for a healthier and more prosperous michigan.

Arts & Culture
5
Top of Michigan Trails Council

We advocate and facilitate the development of a network of multipurpose recreational trails in Northern Lower Michigan.

Recreation & Sports
6
Green Lake Greenways

The mission of green lake greenways is to facilitate the development of a regional network of trails and greenways to preserve the natural beauty of the area and advocate, educate, and encourage on behalf of safe biking and walking.

Recreation & Sports
7
Gratiot Lake Conservancy
Environment
8
Genesee Land Trust Inc

Genesee Land Trust preserves and protects natural lands and waterways that enhance the quality of life in the Greater Rochester region - providing wildlife habitat, locally grown food, and connections to nature.

Environment
9
Great Mountain Forest Corporation
Philanthropy
10
Green Lake Conservancy Inc

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,…

Environment
11
Great Lakes Biomimicry Inc

Creating the conditions for innovation inspired by nature.

Community Improvement
12
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is The Dynamic Catholic Institute. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA INC — $2,050 · OtherGRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA INCGleanor's Community Food Bank — $250 · OtherGleanor's Community Food BankHELPING HEROS KIDS — $250 · OtherHELPING HEROS KIDSGlacial Hills via the NMMBA — $250 · OtherGlacial Hills via the NMMBALighthouse Michigan — $250 · OtherLighthouse MichiganGlacial Hills co NMMBA — $250 · OtherGlacial Hills co NMMBASafe Harbor of TC — $250 · OtherSafe Harbor of TCGENESIS PERCUSSION — $200 · OtherFriends of Glacial Hills — $200 · OtherGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $1,550 · EnvironmentGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERV…PADDLE ANTRIM — $1,140 · EnvironmentPADDLE ANTRIMTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE — $550 · ReligionHEAD FOR THE CURE FOUNDATION — $250 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $250 · HealthNorthern Michigan Mountain Bike Asn — $450 · Human ServicesCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC — $200 · Crime & LegalSAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC — $100 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,950Environment$2,690Religion$550Health$500Human Services$450Crime & Legal$200Housing & Shelter$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA INC — $2,050 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $1,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPADDLE ANTRIM — $1,140 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE — $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Michigan Mountain Bike Asn — $450 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEAD FOR THE CURE FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENESIS PERCUSSION — $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Oleson FoundationMI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oleson Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Boccia 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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