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Charles M Bauervic Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$77k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$12k
Largest
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 FY20192024.

Education$293kPublic Benefit$68kArts & Culture$28kHealth$21kCivil Rights$20kReligion$7kScience & Tech$6kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$4,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILLSDALE COLLEGE ACADEMY$12,000
AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION (FREEDOMPROJECT ACADEMY - FPA)$10,000
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE THE$7,000
HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES$6,000
MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY$6,000
CHRISTENDOM COLLEGE$6,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR HOMEOPATHY$6,000
SACRED HEART ACADEMY$5,000
RONCALLI HIGH SCHOOL$4,000
CEDAR CLASSICAL ACADEMY$3,500
WYOMING CATHOLIC COLLEGE$3,000
ST MARY SCHOOL- LAKE LEELANAU$3,000
ST MICHAEL HIGH SCHOOL$2,000
REGINA HIGH SCHOOL$1,500
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR PRO-LIFE OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY: $15k → 9%HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES: $6k → 11%HILLSDALE COLLEGE ACADEMY: $13k → 14%AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION (FREEDOMPROJECT ACADEMY - FPA): $10k → 7%RONCALLI HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 16%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE THE: $7k → 7%CHRISTENDOM COLLEGE: $6k → 10%NATIONAL CENTER FOR HOMEOPATHY: $6k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $6k → 26%NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY: $15k → 9%RIGHT TO LIFE MICH ED FUND: $5k → 11%HILLSDALE COLLEGE ACADEMY: $12k → 14%AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION (FREEDOMPROJECT ACADEMY - FPA): $5k → 7%RONCALLI HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 16%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE THE: $7k → 7%CHRISTENDOM COLLEGE: $5k → 10%NATIONAL CENTER FOR HOMEOPATHY: $4k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $6k → 26%ST MARY SCHOOL- LAKE LEELANAU: $5k → 7%NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY: $11k → 9%HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES: $4k → 11%HILLSDALE COLLEGE ACADEMY: $12k → 14%AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION (FREEDOMPROJECT ACADEMY - FPA): $5k → 7%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE THE: $6k → 7%CHRISTENDOM COLLEGE: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $5k → 26%ST MARY SCHOOL- LAKE LEELANAU: $5k → 7%MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $6k → 9%RIGHT TO LIFE MICH ED FUND: $5k → 11%HILLSDALE COLLEGE ACADEMY: $11k → 14%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE THE: $6k → 7%CHRISTENDOM COLLEGE: $5k → 10%ST MARY SCHOOL- LAKE LEELANAU: $4k → 7%MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $5k → 9%HILLSDALE COLLEGE ACADEMY: $10k → 14%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE THE: $5k → 7%MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $5k → 9%MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $5k → 9%NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY: $11k → 7%SACRED HEART ACADEMY: $5k → 11%AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION (FREEDOMPROJECT ACADEMY - FPA): $10k → 7%HILLSDALE COLLEGE ACADEMY: $10k → 7%RIGHT TO LIFE MICH ED FUND: $6k → 7%ST MARY SCHOOL- LAKE LEELANAU: $5k → 7%OAKDALE ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%MADONNA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 7%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE THE: $5k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $5k → 7%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of Charles M Bauervic Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Charles M Bauervic Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.2% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$385k · 26 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
12

Total granted

$385k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+34%

Still filing today

58%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitHealthOther

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

  • NU
    Northwood University
    4× · 2019–2022 · $52k · revenue +1%
  • MC
    MACKINAC CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $27k · revenue +64%
  • AO
    AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • AO
    AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION (FREEDOMPROJECT ACADEMY - FPA)
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • LI
    LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE THE
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS
    one grant, 2019 · $5k

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.

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Daemen University

Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…

Education
2
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
3
Union Institute & University

Union Institute & University educates highly motivated adults who seek academic programs to engage, enlighten, and empower them to pursue professional goals and a lifetime of learning and service. Offering accredited bachelors, masters,…

4
Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education
5
Chesterton Academy of Milw Inc

An education with a rigorous classical curriculum taught through the lens of the Catholic faith.

Education
6
Harcum College

Harcum college provides its students with an opportunity for outstanding academic, career, and life preparation. we teach, mentor, and prepare students for success in their chosen professions in an experiential environment. harcum's core…

Education
7
Andrews University

Education

Education
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Spartanburg Methodist College

SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…

Education
9
Luther Classical College

Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.

Education
10
Southwestern Christian College

Its purpose is to offer a holistic educational program that will motivate the student to value and achieve academi excellence within the context of commitment to moral and spiritual values.

Education
11
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madonna University and the most unlike its peers is Camp Quality Usa Inc. 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

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
18/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HILLSDALE COLLEGE ACADEMY — $67,500 · OtherHILLSDALE COLLEGE ACADEMYST MARY SCHOOL- LAKE LEELANAU — $26,000 · OtherST MARY SCHOOL- LAKE LEELANAURIGHT TO LIFE MICH ED FUND — $20,000 · OtherRIGHT TO LIFE MICH ED FUNDRONCALLI HIGH SCHOOL — $14,000 · OtherRONCALLI HIGH SCHOOLAMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION (FREEDOMPROJECT ACADEMY - FPA) — $10,000 · OtherREGINA HIGH SCHOOL — $8,500 · OtherSACRED HEART ACADEMY — $8,000 · Other+17 more — $47,500 · Other+17 moreNorthwood University — $52,000 · EducationNorthwood UniversityCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION — $22,000 · EducationCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATIONUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC — $17,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INCWalsh College of Accountancy & Business Administration — $14,000 · EducationWalsh College of Accountancy & Business…HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES — $13,000 · EducationHARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADESSETON HOME STUDY SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationSETON HOME STUDY SCHOOLCEDAR CLASSICAL ACADEMY — $7,000 · EducationMadonna University — $7,000 · EducationSpring Arbor University — $6,000 · EducationST MICHAEL ACADEMY — $5,500 · Education+3 more — $4,500 · EducationLeadership Institute — $31,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Ins…MACKINAC CENTER — $27,000 · Public BenefitMACKINAC CENTE…AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION INC — $26,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureNational Center For Homeopathy — $10,000 · Health
Other$201,500Education$158,000Public Benefit$58,000Arts & Culture$26,500Health$10,000

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 budgetNorthwood University — $52,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER — $27,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION INC — $26,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION — $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC — $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWalsh College of Accountancy & Business Administration — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES — $13,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNational Center For Homeopathy — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSETON HOME STUDY SCHOOL — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR CLASSICAL ACADEMY — $7,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMadonna University — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpring Arbor University — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST MICHAEL ACADEMY — $5,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP QUALITY USA INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF PRO-LIFE OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS — $4,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWyoming Catholic College — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVE MARIA SCHOOL OF LAW — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Great Lakes Childrens Museum — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADRIAN COLLEGE — $500 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.

  • Who funds Northwood University
  • Who funds Leadership Institute
  • Who funds MACKINAC CENTER
  • Who funds AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC
  • Who funds Walsh College of Accountancy & Business Administration
  • Who funds HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES
  • Who funds National Center For Homeopathy
  • Who funds SETON HOME STUDY SCHOOL
  • Who funds CEDAR CLASSICAL ACADEMY
  • Who funds Madonna University
  • Who funds Spring Arbor University
  • Who funds ST MICHAEL ACADEMY
  • Who funds CAMP QUALITY USA INC
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF PRO-LIFE OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS
  • Who funds Wyoming Catholic College
  • Who funds AVE MARIA SCHOOL OF LAW
  • Who funds The Great Lakes Childrens Museum

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.

Charles Koch FoundationVA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charles Koch Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Charles M Bauervic Foundation Inc 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
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Charles M Bauervic Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Charles M Bauervic Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 42 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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