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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CHRISTENDOM COLLEGE$6,000
HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES$6,000
MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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%HILLSDALE COLLEGE ACADEMY: $10k → 7%AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION (FREEDOMPROJECT ACADEMY - FPA): $10k → 7%RIGHT TO LIFE MICH ED FUND: $6k → 7%MADONNA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 7%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE THE: $5k → 7%ST MARY SCHOOL- LAKE LEELANAU: $5k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS: $5k → 7%OAKDALE ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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 8% of Charles M Bauervic Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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
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

  • 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
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.

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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,…

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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
8
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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madonna University; 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 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. 20 of the 42 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
18/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

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

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 Charles M Bauervic Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles M Bauervic Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%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
    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, 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.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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