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Boutell Memorial Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$415k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$1.3MAnimals$800kHuman Services$434kArts & Culture$258kEmployment$256kYouth Development$195kCommunity Improvement$190kHealth$184kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA OF SAGINAW$250,000
SAGINAW HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$50,000
CAN COUNCIL$20,000
LIFECLINIC COMMUNITY RESOURCES$20,000
YMCA GREAT LAKES BAY REGION$15,000
SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE OF SAGINAW CNTY$10,000
READ ASSOCIATION OF SAGINAW COUNTY$10,000
SAGINAW CHORAL SOCIETY$10,000
MICHIGAN CROSSROADS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS$10,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%YMCA GREAT LAKES BAY REGION: $15k → 14%THE DIAPER ALLIANCE: $20k → 9%SELF LOVE BEAUTY: $10k → 9%CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE OF SAGINAW CNTY: $10k → 18%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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 17 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
25

Total granted

$2.1M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+39%

Still filing today

71%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

  • SV
    SAGINAW VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $750k · revenue +22%
  • LC
    LIFECLINIC COMMUNITY RESOURCES
    2× · 2019–2025 · $48k · revenue +262%
  • EH
    EMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • CM
    CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M
  • HL
    HOYT LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • SC
    SAGINAW CO YOUTH PROTECTION
    one grant, 2021 · $150k

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
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

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

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2
Saginaw Public Libraries Foundation

Support library activities through materials and services

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3
Historical Society of Saginaw County

The historical society of saginaw county is committed to serve the community by telling the continuing story of the people of the saginaw region through exploration, preservation and presentation of their historical and cultural heritage.

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4
Saginaw County Convention & Visitors Bureau

Promotion of conventions & tourism in saginaw county

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5
Saginaw Community Food Club & Kitchen

To address and improve food equity by providing access to healthy foods and nutritional resources to individuals and communities.

Food & Nutrition
6
Saginaw County Business & Education Partnership Inc

The mission of the partnership is driving workforce solutions through community partnership. the partnership plans to accomplish its mission by facilitating activities for career preparation, school-to-work and school improvement.

Employment
7
Saginaw Society for Crippled Children
Health
8
Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place

Youth Development
9
Saginaw County Youth Protection Council

To empower and support children and families in reaching their full potential and becoming self-sufficient, saving lives and creating futures through educational enrichment and shelter services.

Human Services
10
Greater Sandusky Partnership

To improve the region's quality of life and economic competitiveness in order to position it as the greatest destination on the great lakes to live, work, and invest.

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11
Young Mens Christian Assoc-Saginaw

The YMCA of Saginaw is an association of all people united in a common effort to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice through programs that enrich the spirit mind and body for all.

Human Services
12
Shared Pregnancy Womens Center

To offer education, assistance and resources to women and families in the greater lansing area.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Svrc Industries Inc and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr10%3%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr14%16%20–35yr15%34%35–55yr25%44%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr10%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr14%11%20–35yr15%35%35–55yr25%54%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
9%
158/1,832

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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
18/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY — $1,000,000 · OtherCENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITYYMCA OF SAGINAW — $260,000 · OtherYMCA OF SAGINAWHOYT LIBRARY — $200,000 · OtherHOYT LIBRARYSAGINAW CO YOUTH PROTECTION — $150,000 · OtherSAGINAW CO YOUTH PROTECTIONTEMPLE THEATRE FOUNDATION — $143,500 · OtherTEMPLE THEATRE FOUNDATION+32 more — $742,008 · Other+32 moreSAGINAW VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $750,000 · AnimalsSAGINAW VALLEY ZOOLO…SVRC Industries Inc — $256,000 · EmploymentSAGINAW FUTURE INC — $190,000 · EducationREAD Association of Saginaw County — $35,658 · EducationSAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationGreat Lakes Bay Health Centers — $100,000 · HealthLIFECLINIC COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $48,000 · HealthFIELD NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE — $18,186 · Health+1 more — $3,000 · HealthUNITED WAY OF SAGINAW COUNTY — $75,000 · PhilanthropySaginaw Community Foundation — $60,000 · PhilanthropyTEMPLEARTS — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSAGINAW CHORAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,495,508Animals$750,000Employment$256,000Education$240,658Health$169,186Philanthropy$135,000Arts & Culture$110,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAGINAW VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $750,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSVRC Industries Inc — $256,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSAGINAW FUTURE INC — $190,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTEMPLE THEATRE FOUNDATION — $143,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTEMPLEARTS — $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetGreat Lakes Bay Health Centers — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY — $65,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetSaginaw Community Foundation — $60,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSAGINAW-SHIAWASSEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLIFECLINIC COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $48,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetEMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW INC — $40,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetREAD Association of Saginaw County — $35,658 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan — $29,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIDDEN HARVEST — $27,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DIAPER ALLIANCE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetEast Side Soup Kitchen — $19,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetFIELD NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE — $18,186 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTeen Challenge of Saginaw Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMichigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChild & Family Service of Saginaw — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAGINAW CHORAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSELF LOVE BEAUTY — $9,960 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetLIONS VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH CAMP — $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $3,000 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.

Saginaw Community Fou…Allen E & Marie A Nic…Wickson-Link Memorial…Morley FoundationConsumers Energy Foun…Wm McNally Family Fou…Wallace & Irene Bronn…Harvey Randall Wickes…Alice E Turner Memori…Frank N Andersen Foun…Bierlein Companies Fo…Bay Area Community Fo…
Saginaw Community FoundationMI47.1× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saginaw Community Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Morley Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Bay Area Community 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 Boutell Memorial Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 50 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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