· Private foundation
Chisbetts 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +202% since the first grant, against +109% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Michigan7× · 2017–2023 · $83k · revenue +202%
- UOU OF M MUSIC SCHOOL5× · 2017–2021 · $75k
- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2023 · $15k
Funded once
- WCWASHTENAW COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +231%
- UOUNIV OF MI SCHOOL OF MUSICone grant, 2018 · $8k
- ASAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $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.
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.
The Association is an independent worldwide organization that nurtures lifelong relationships with and among current and future Michigan alumni. As a committed partner of the University the Association offers programs of relevance and…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
To generate and cultivate a community of enthusiastic and loyal donors who contribute to the development of a premier university of outstanding students.
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover share knowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and develop leadership expressed in service to others.
Eastern michigan university foundation's primary purpose is to solicit private funds on behalf of and for the exclusive benefit of eastern michigan university, and to expand its resource base through the management of assets and the…
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.
Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.
To promote all phases of music education in michigan schools and communities and develop leadership and cooperation among music educators and their organizations.
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community.
Lake Forest College is a National Residential Liberal Arts College, accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
To serve as an advocate for kennesaw state university, and to receive, invest, account for, and allocate private gifts and contributions in support of kennesaw state university.
The dia creates experiences that help each visitor find personal meaning in art.
How this is measured
7 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. 7 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chisbetts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chisbetts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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