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Brian A Fraser Foundation at a glance

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Brian A Fraser 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.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
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, FY2024 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$18kEducation$16kHealth$12kReligion$9kHuman Services$3kYouth Development$2kRecreation & Sports$1kArts & Culture$700Other$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$1,100
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Josephs Helpers$12,500
Full Circle Foundation$10,000
St Paul Catholic Church$8,700
Grosse Pointe South Mothers Club$4,042
St Paul in the Lake Catholic School$3,000
GP South Athletics LAX$1,100
Mikey 23 Foundation$1,000
Grosse Pointe War Memorial Assoc$500
Kevins Song$500
Common Ground$500
Ellis House 313$200
Individual grant recipient$100
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Samaritas: $3k → 21%Full Circle Foundation: $10k → 21%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of Brian A Fraser Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 81%.

Brian A Fraser Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36k · 4 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$36k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
0%

Still filing today

25%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalArts & 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

  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH HELPERS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $18k · revenue +68%
  • SP
    ST PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH
    2× · 2024–2025 · $9k
  • GP
    Grosse Pointe South Mothers Club
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8k

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PAUL PARISH GROSSE POINTE FARMS
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • S
    SAMARITAS
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • MI
    MARINERS INN
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -3%
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
St Joseph Mercy Chelsea Inc

We, st. joseph mercy chelsea and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph mercy chelsea is a member of trinity health - michigan and…

Health
2
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
3
St John's Rehabilitation Hospital and Nursing Center Inc

St. john's rehabilitation hospital provides nursing and rehabilitation services to individuals of all faiths, regardless of any individuals' ability to pay for services, including routine and ancillary care, in support of the archiocese of…

Health
4
Samaritan Hospital

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. samaritan hospital is a member of st. peter's health partners and…

Health
5
Trinity Health Grand Haven Hospital

We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…

Health
6
Mymichigan Medical Center Gladwin

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
7
St Vincent Depaul Rehabilitation Service of Texas Inc

Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.

Employment
8
Trinity Health - Michigan

We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.

Health
9
Mercy Health Partners

We, mercy health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health partners is a member of mercy health and trinity health.

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10
Good Samaritan Ministries

Good samaritan is committed to ending poverty and homelessness, in partnership with our community, by leading the way in providing affordable housing solutions and supportive services.

Human Services
11
Trinity Continuing Care Services

We, trinity senior living communities and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity continuing care services (d/b/a trinity health senior…

Health
12
Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center Inc

We, saint joseph regional medical center (sjrmc) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.sjrmc is a member of trinity health.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Common Ground; the most unlike its peers is St Joseph Helpers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH: $8,825 · OtherST PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCHGrosse Pointe South Mothers Club: $8,084 · OtherGrosse Pointe South Mothers ClubST PAUL PARISH GROSSE POINTE FARMS: $3,000 · OtherST PAUL PARISH GROSSE POINTE FARMSSt Paul in the Lake Catholic School: $3,000 · OtherSt Paul in the Lake Catholic SchoolMIKEY 23 FOUNDATION: $1,500 · OtherGP South Athletics LAX: $1,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,100 · OtherGP South Swim Scholarship: $1,000 · Other+3 more: $800 · OtherST JOSEPH HELPERS: $17,625 · Housing & ShelterST JOSEPH HELPERSFULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION…SAMARITAS: $2,500 · Human ServicesSAMARITASMARINERS INN: $1,510 · HealthCOMMON GROUND: $500 · HealthKEVINS SONG A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY EDUCATION ON DEPRESSION & SUICIDE: $500 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $250 · HealthGROSSE POINTE WAR MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $500 · Arts & CultureEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $100 · Crime & Legal
Other$28,409Housing & Shelter$17,625Human Services$12,500Health$2,760Arts & Culture$500Crime & Legal$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JOSEPH HELPERS: $17,625 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSAMARITAS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINERS INN: $1,510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON GROUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEVINS SONG A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY EDUCATION ON DEPRESSION & SUICIDE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND 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.

Community Foundation …Ethel and James Flinn…Children's Hospital o…Raymond James Charita…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good · 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 Brian A Fraser Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brian A Fraser 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 20 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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