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Cozad Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY MUSIC SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| ALMA COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $5,000 |
| RUTH ELLIS CENTER | $5,000 |
| MICHIGAN TROUT UNLIMITED | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,359 |
| STAND WITH TRANS | $2,500 |
| CAN COUNCIL BAY COUNTY | $2,000 |
| BAY VETERANS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| MY MICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HIDDEN HARVEST | $1,500 |
| HEADWATERS LAND CONSERVANCY | $1,500 |
| SAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY | $1,500 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY | $1,500 |
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 (FY22–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% 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.
20 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 7 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
RUTH ELLIS CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +51%- TUTROUT UNLIMITED MICHIGAN COUNCIL3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +41%
- HHHIDDEN HARVEST3× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- HNHOUSE N2 HOME INCone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +11%
- CDCOMMUNITY DENTAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $5k
- PSPOSTPARTUM SUPPORT INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +54%
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.
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 permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Be and create stewards for the water environment of michigan. provide high quality education for michigan's water professionals. educate and inform policy makers and the general public. promote scientifically sound environmental practices…
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
Acquisition and conservation of natural areas.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
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.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trout Unlimited Michigan Council and the most unlike its peers is Bay Veterans 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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 15% 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 33 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 ALMA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RUTH ELLIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BAY VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED MICHIGAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HEADWATERS LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds HOUSE N2 HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds POSTPARTUM SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Stand With Trans ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMAZING GRACE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
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: Consumers Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Bay Area Community Foundation · Dow Company Foundation · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Cozad Family 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.
- Postpartum Support International — 43% 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.
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