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Charles Stewart Harding 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $365k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BLESSING PROJECTS | $400,000 |
| BIBLOS FOUNDATION | $140,000 |
| UPTOWN REINVESTMENT CORPORATION | $75,000 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BERSTON FIELD HOUSE | $50,000 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $50,000 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $25,000 |
| UPTOWN REINVESTMENT CORPORATION | $25,000 |
| FLINT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| GREATER FLINT ARTS COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| FLINT PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| YWCA OF GREATER FLINT | $5,000 |
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, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- BOBill of Rights Institute2× · 2017–2018 · $368k · revenue +248%
- TATRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $326k · revenue +135%
- FIFlint Institute of Music7× · 2017–2025 · $325k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- VFVOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACYone grant, 2024 · $210k · revenue +4%
- TNTHE NAZARENE FUNDone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -83%
- FCFIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTISTone grant, 2018 · $100k
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.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Non Profit Art Organization
To receive and administer funds and to operate exclusively for the benefit of, and to carry out the purposes of Flint Cultural Center Corporation.
To promote the common economic interests of all the commercial enterprises in the Genesee County, Michigan community. The Organization strives to enhance the business climate in the area and advocates for public policy that supports…
The foundation for the flint cultural center is committed to improving the quality of life in genesee county through support of the flint cultural center and its various entities. to act on this commitment, the foundation for the flint…
To further the welfare of the jewish community
Housed in flint, michigan, we are a non-profit with a mission to relieve the innovator of the entrepreneurial burden. we know entrepreneurship can be difficult, and that's why we're here to help. as a community of student professionals,…
The organization's mission is to inspire appreciation and celebrate the cultures and ecology of the vast finger lakes region.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To improve the ecological health of Pierce Park in the City of Flint
Conservation and education. the flint riverquarium promotes conservation through aquatic exhibits and educational, entertaining experiences that engage diverse audiences by interpreting the unique ecosystems of the flint river watershed.
To support and benefit the community foundation of greater flint. the organization will address a wide variety of community needs in greater flint, and its immediate priority is to provide aid to those affected by the flint water crisis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flint Cultural Center Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Biblos 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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 28 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 The Blessing Projects ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds Biblos Foundation ↗
- Who funds Bill of Rights Institute ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Music ↗
- Who funds Flint Cultural Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Science & History ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds CLARION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NAZARENE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE FLINT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST ↗
- Who funds UPTOWN REINVESTMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GREATER FLINT ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TORCH LAKE PROTECTION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Step Up America Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Whaley Children's Center Inc ↗
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: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Anna Paulina Foundation · Ruth Mott Foundation · Nartel Family Foundation · The Whiting Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Tummala Charitable Foundation · The Hagerman Foundation · The Serra Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Child Welfare Society of Flint
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 Stewart Harding 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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