· Private foundation
Create a Beginning 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RACQUETUP | $5,000 |
| UKRANIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY FOUND | $5,000 |
| CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY | $3,000 |
| VFW HOME FOR CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $2,000 |
| KIDS ON POINT | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS IN DEED | $2,000 |
| WDET 1019 FM (DETROIT PUBLIC RADIO | $750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO | $750 |
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 (FY21–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Create a Beginning Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY8× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +38%- KOKIDS ON POINT INC3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +6%
- HWHumane World for Animals Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- UCUkrainian Catholic University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +98%
- TCTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF THE DIOCESE OF LANSINGone grant, 2022 · $3k
- EWEVERY WOMAN'S PLACE INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -2%
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.
Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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 common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Education and Research
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 35 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 Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation ↗
- Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON POINT INC ↗
- Who funds Friends In Deed ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds EVERY WOMAN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds The Konnection ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds THE MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A GIRL LIKE ME INC ↗
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: Comerica Charitable Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Create a Beginning Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Create a Beginning Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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