· Private foundation
Cousineau Family Charity
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST HUGO CHURCH AND SCHOOL | $8,220 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST HUGO | $5,600 |
| CNEWA | $2,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT | $1,500 |
| CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF PONTIAC | $529 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MARY MOTHER OF THE EUCHARIST | $460 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS | $400 |
| THOMAS MOORE SOCIETY | $400 |
| HOLY TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $250 |
| MARYKNOLL FATHERS AND BROTHERS | $250 |
| HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL | $250 |
| LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY | $250 |
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 (FY20–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +18% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 13 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- FJFATHER JOE POOR FAMILIES PROGRAM3× · 2021–2023 · $16k · revenue +29%
- HTHEAL TRAFFICKING INC2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +23%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $790 · revenue +32%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- MFMADISON FAMILY PLANNINGone grant, 2022 · $1k
FOOD FOR THE POOR INCone grant, 2023 · $525 · revenue -9%
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.
Faith in public life's mission is to advance the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country that allows each of us to live into our full humanity. we do this by building power and cultures of belongings among diverse…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.
Catholic leadership institute provides bishops, priests,religious, deacons and lay persons in the roman catholic church with world-class, pastoral leadership formation and consulting services that strengthen their confidence and competence…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
Ncr connects catholics to church, faith and the common good with independent news, analysis and spiritual reflection.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Aac's purpose is to build up and defend great commission anglican churches in north america through developing faithful leaders, equipping local churches and engaging the church and culture with gospel clarity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Oakland County Pioneer and Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 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) — 2% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 121 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 FATHER JOE POOR FAMILIES PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HEAL TRAFFICKING INC ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds Kettering University ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
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: Rafael Madan & Lilian Casas Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Mary's Foundation · Alexander and Linda Milley Foundation · The Moran Foundation · The Halprin Family Foundation B · John a & Mary Pollock Yanta Memorial Tr · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Sacred Heart Trust Foundation · David Dinnocenti Memorial Foundation · The A&S Giancristofaro Family 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 Cousineau Family Charity 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.