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Bui 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KALAMAZOO LOAVES AND FISHES | $12,000 |
| NORTH STAR REACH | $9,000 |
| STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES | $4,500 |
| FOOD GATHERERS | $4,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HURON VALLEY | $3,000 |
| CRAYONS4KIDS INC | $3,000 |
| POWER BOOK BAGS | $2,700 |
| AACORN FARM INC | $2,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC | $1,500 |
| WORLD MEDICAL RELIEF INC | $1,300 |
| HARPER STRONG FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| ST FRANCIS PRAYER CENTER | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- KLKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +63%
- SFSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +26%
- FGFOOD GATHERERS9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- HSHARPER STRONG FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2025 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Wabash county habitat for humanity, inc. is a non-profit organization working in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to build decent, affordable housing.
To improve our communities by providing and maintaining safe, healthy, affordable homeownership opportunities for low-to-moderate income community members, in partnership with volunteers and organizations throughout the community.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
To eliminate sub-standard housing and homelessness from lapeer county.
Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
Habitat for humanity - grand traverse region is an ecumenical christian housing ministry. the organization works in partnership with people to improve the conditions in which they live by providing affordable housing. habitat challenges…
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.
Our mission is to ensure that every child in our community receives the family-centered care that he or she needs to thrive. there is no human endeavor that is outside the realm of health.
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
Big bend habitat for humanity is dedicated to creating lasting change by helping families in the big bend region achieve the dream of homeownership. as part of the global habitat for humanity network, we work to eliminate barriers to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Starfish Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is CRAYONS4KIDS Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR REACH ↗
- Who funds STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS4KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds POWER BOOK BAGS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WORLD MEDICAL RELIEF INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AACORN FARM INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Jewish Fund · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 Bui 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.
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.
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