How much did BOUTELL MEMORIAL FUND grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of BOUTELL MEMORIAL FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

soup kitchensaginaw

2021

saginaw

2022

saginaw

2023

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2024

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2025

saginaw

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 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

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
MICHIGAN CROSSROADS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS$10,000
SAGINAW CHORAL SOCIETY$10,000
READ ASSOCIATION OF SAGINAW COUNTY$10,000
SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE OF SAGINAW CNTY$10,000

02The need

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 (FY22–22, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.3M · 6 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+40%

Still filing today

83%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureAnimalsOther

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 +37%
SB
SAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY
2× · 2019–2021 · $65k · revenue +83%
SC
SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
3× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +232%

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.

Saginaw Community Alliance for the

Community Improvement

Saginaw Township South

Through proper guidance and exemplary leadership, the little league program assists children in developing the qualities of citizenship, discipline, teamwork and physical well being. by espousing the virtues of character, courage and…

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Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

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

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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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Saginaw Public Libraries Foundation

Support library activities through materials and services

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Saginaw County Convention &

Promotion of conventions & tourism in saginaw county

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United Way of South Central Michigan

United way of south central michigan strives for caring, connected, equitable communities.

Philanthropy

Saginaw County Business & Education

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

Saginaw County Youth Protection

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

Saginaw County Community Action

The mission of the saginaw county community action committee, inc. is to fully participate in the development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs to serve low-income communities. the organization will serve as a proactive…

Human Services

Greater Saginaw Amateur Hockey

To provide an opportunity for youth and others to play and learn hockey and other ice skating sports, while placing an emphasis on the enhancement of good character, sportsmanship and citizenship.

Recreation & Sports

Say Detroit

Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saginaw Community Foundation 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 44 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

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 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/26

the rest of the field

105/1,399

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.

05the grantee network

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/24

Grantees still filing

15/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,232,508Animals$750,000Education$200,658Health$138,186Arts & Culture$110,000Employment$106,000Philanthropy$85,000

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.

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 FoundationMI44× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saginaw Community Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family · Consumers Energy Foundation · Morley Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Yeo Family Foundation · Frances Goll Mills Fund

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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SAGINAW VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 382801805 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SAGINAW VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Boutell Memorial Fund?

Find your warmest path to Boutell Memorial Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BOUTELL MEMORIAL FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Boutell Memorial Fund?

More from the funding graph

BOUTELL MEMORIAL FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Boutell Memorial Fund?

More from the funding graph