· Private foundation
Chris and Michelle Peyerk Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN | $15,000 |
| MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| A MOTHER'S WISH MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| DUTTON FARMS | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS | $5,000 |
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| MCLAREN GREATER LANSING FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| TURNING POINT INC | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN MIRACLE NETWORK | $500 |
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 (FY22–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Chris and Michelle Peyerk Foundation’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. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM5× · 2019–2023 · $45k · revenue +172%- FOFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS6× · 2019–2024 · $37k · revenue +10%
- TPTURNING POINT INC4× · 2019–2024 · $28k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- GBGFGR - BLESSING IN A BACKPACK AVONDALEone grant, 2020 · $8k
- SJST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
To develop and promote programs, funding, etc. for children and families.
The mid michigan college foundation is a non-profit michigan corportion organized to receive and administer funds for charitable purposes in support of mid michigan college. the corporation is organized exclusively for the purpose of…
To advance the field of health for the public good.
To lead, strengthen and support michigan's community of philanthropy.
The mission of the michigan health endowment fund is to improve the health of michigan residents, with special emphasis on the health and wellness of children and seniors, while reducing the cost of health care.
Cooperatively empowering credit unions to increase financial well-being by supporting community enrichment, financial education, and credit union development initiatives
To initiate, cultivate, and fund strategic nonpartisan efforts in michigan to promote economic and educational opportunity; enhance the quality of life and social welfare; defend and improve government accountability, ethics, and…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
To promote the advancement of business and community in macomb county, michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mclaren Greater Lansing Foundation and the most unlike its peers is General Sports Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 31 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 MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds THE MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds DUTTON FARM ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Black Caucus Foundation of Michigan ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GENERAL SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN GREATER LANSING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds Rochester Christian University ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation of Michigan 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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Strunk Foundation · Artichoke Garlic Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Chris and Michelle Peyerk 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.