· Private foundation
Cozad Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY MUSIC SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $5,000 |
| MICHIGAN TROUT UNLIMITED | $5,000 |
| ALMA COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| RUTH ELLIS CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,359 |
| STAND WITH TRANS | $2,500 |
| BAY VETERANS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| CAN COUNCIL BAY COUNTY | $2,000 |
| MY MICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HIDDEN HARVEST | $1,500 |
| FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGAN | $1,500 |
| HEADWATERS LAND CONSERVANCY | $1,500 |
| SAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY | $1,500 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.
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
How this is measured
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 +199%
Funded once
- HNHOUSE N2 HOME INCone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +11%
- PSPOSTPARTUM SUPPORT INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +54%
- CDCOMMUNITY DENTAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $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.
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.…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 33 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.
- 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 SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds POSTPARTUM SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Stand With Trans ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMAZING GRACE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cozad Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cozad Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Postpartum Support International: 43% of income from government
How this is measured
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