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Boccia Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%Paddle Antrim: $250 → 9%Safe Harbor of TC: $250 → 10%Dynamic Catholic: $150 → 11%Grass River Natural Area: $250 → 9%Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy: $200 → 10%Helping Heroes Kids: $250 → 9%Safe Harbor of Grand Traverse: $100 → 10%Paddle Antrim: $250 → 9%Glacial Hills via the NMMBA: $250 → 9%Grass River Natural Area: $250 → 9%Paddle Antrim: $250 → 9%Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy: $250 → 9%Paddle Antrim: $240 → 9%Friends of Glacial Hills: $200 → 9%Grass River Natural Area: $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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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%
+21%

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
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

  • 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

  • HH
    HELPING HEROS KIDS
    one grant, 2021 · $250
  • GC
    Gleanor's Community Food Bank
    one grant, 2020 · $250
  • GH
    Glacial Hills co NMMBA
    one grant, 2021 · $250
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.

1
Little Traverse Conservancy Conservation Trust

To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA INC: $2,050 · OtherGRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA INCHELPING HEROS KIDS: $250 · OtherHELPING HEROS KIDSGleanor's Community Food Bank: $250 · OtherGleanor's Community Food BankGlacial Hills co NMMBA: $250 · OtherGlacial Hills co NMMBAGlacial Hills via the NMMBA: $250 · OtherGlacial Hills via the NMMBALighthouse Michigan: $250 · OtherLighthouse MichiganSafe 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 · ReligionBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $250 · HealthHEAD FOR THE CURE FOUNDATION: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAD FOR THE CURE FOUNDATION: $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
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.

Oleson FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Boccia Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boccia Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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