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Czmer Family Foundation at a glance

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Czmer Family 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.

$79k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

99% of Czmer Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Czmer Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $79k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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4
’18
6
’19
5
’20
7
’21
5
’22
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’23
11
’24
1
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$295kCommunity Improvement$194kHealth$95kHuman Services$82kEducation$43kHousing & Shelter$36kFood & Nutrition$36kYouth Development$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $46k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SONJE AYITI ORGANIZATION INC$46,000
OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER$5,000
HUMBLE DESIGN INC$5,000
BEYOND BASICS$5,000
IMPACT 100 OF GENESEE COUNTY$3,550
THE SALVATION ARMY OF GENESEE CTY$2,500
Bound Together$2,000
Clara's Hope$2,000
THOMAS SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$1,500
FRANKLIN AVE MISSION$1,250
ST FRANCIS PRAYER CNT$1,250
FENTON CENTER OF HOPE$1,250
ST LUKES NEW LIFE CTR$1,000
THE WAY COFFEE CO$1,000
US FIRE SAFETY SVC INC$300
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FENTON CENTER OF HOPE: $5k → 5%FENTON CENTER OF HOPE: $3k → 5%Clara's Hope: $3k → 5%Clara's Hope: $2k → 5%FENTON CENTER OF HOPE: $1k → 5%IMPACT 100 OF GENESEE COUNTY: $4k → 16%IMPACT 100 OF GENESEE COUNTY: $2k → 16%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 8%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 8%IMPACT 100 OF GENESEE COUNTY: $1k → 16%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 8%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER: $5k → 8%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER: $3k → 8%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER: $3k → 8%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER: $3k → 8%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$485k · 17 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
5

Total granted

$485k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+35%

Still filing today

65%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GC
    GENESEE COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +28%
  • OD
    OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +289%
  • BB
    BEYOND BASICS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $27k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • I1
    IMPACT 100
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4k
  • CY
    Cincinnati Youth Collaborativegraduated
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2k · revenue +35%
  • HF
    HURLEY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +74%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Greater Detroit Community Outreach Center inc

Greater Detroit Community Outreach Center is a community based nonprofit organization designed to help prevent teen parenthood among school age youth. The center has a staff of outreach representatives who go into the homes with children…

Human Services
2
Hope Gain Center of West Michigan

To promote the well-being and economic self sufficiency of individuals living with mental illness by providing job training, placement services, and other resources that enable them to gain employment in remote work settings. Through our…

Employment
3
Christian Community Response Team

Catholic Community Response Team provides direct support and referral services to those in crisis needing emergency assistance to meet their basic needs. We do it in a manner inspired by the Gospel of Jesus. Our focus is to keep families…

Human Services
4
Midland's Open Door

Midland's Open Door (MOD) operates two crisis shelters, one for women and children and one for men. MOD's programs are designed to meet the immediate needs of homeless individuals by providing a safe and loving environment where each…

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5
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
6
Severe Weather Network Livingston County

The Severe Weather Network (SWN) partners with community organizations, agencies, and faith communities to provide emergency, overnight refuge during the winter months for people experiencing homelessness in Livingston County. SWN also…

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7
Covenant House Michigan

Covenant house michigan is a sanctuary for homeless and at-risk young people, ages 18-24 who have nowhere to go. it is our mission to serve these children with respect and love.covenant house michigan builds bridges to hope for young…

Human Services
8
Franciscan Center Inc

The franciscan center, inc., a ministry of the sisterts of st. francis assisi of milwaukee franciscan centers, is a multi-faceted emergency outreach agency serving the poor and homelesss of baltimore regardless of age, race, creed,…

Human Services
9
Lighting the Way Transition House

Counseling service

Crime & Legal
10
Reach Resource Services

Services to runaway youth

Human Services
11
Outreach East

At Outreach East, our mission is simple yet powerful: to ensure no neighbor in our community has to go without life's essentials. We are a non-denominational, community-based nonprofit serving families in Davison, Burton, Goodrich,…

Human Services
12
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Shiawassee and Genesee Counties; the most unlike its peers is Saint Francis Prayer Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SONJE AYITI ORGANIZATION INC: $239,450 · OtherSONJE AYITI ORGANIZATION INCCAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHENOn the Rise: $25,000 · OtherCAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHENOn the RiseCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE AND GENESEE COUNTIES: $17,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE AND GENESEE C…THE SALVATION ARMY OF GENESEE CTY: $15,500 · Other+10 more: $27,400 · Other+10 moreRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND: $295,000 · PhilanthropyRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUNDOPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC: $31,000 · Human ServicesFENTON CENTER OF HOPE: $9,525 · Human ServicesIMPACT100 GENESEE COUNTY: $7,000 · Human ServicesClara's Hope: $4,500 · Human ServicesGENESEE COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $43,000 · HealthMadis House Inc: $5,000 · HealthBEYOND BASICS: $26,500 · EducationBOUND TOGETHER: $16,000 · EducationCincinnati Youth Collaborative: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationHumble Design Inc: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterELE'S PLACE INC: $4,000 · Youth Development
Other$324,850Philanthropy$295,000Human Services$52,025Health$48,000Education$45,500Housing & Shelter$25,000Youth Development$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND: $295,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENESEE COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC: $43,000 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetOPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC: $31,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBEYOND BASICS: $26,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHumble Design Inc: $25,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE AND GENESEE COUNTIES: $17,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBOUND TOGETHER: $16,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetFENTON CENTER OF HOPE: $9,525 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetIMPACT100 GENESEE COUNTY: $7,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetMadis House Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetClara's Hope: $4,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetELE'S PLACE INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHURLEY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS PRAYER CENTER INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINTERCHURCH ORGANIZATION INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWAY COFFEE CO: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSt Luke N E W Life Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
  • Who funds GENESEE COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND BASICS ↗
  • Who funds Humble Design Inc ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE AND GENESEE COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds BOUND TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds FENTON CENTER OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT100 GENESEE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Madis House Inc ↗
  • Who funds Clara's Hope ↗
  • Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds HURLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCIS PRAYER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERCHURCH ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WAY COFFEE CO ↗
  • Who funds St Luke N E W Life Center 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.

Community Foundation …Charles Stewart Mott …Meyer Family Foundati…The Williamson Founda…Consumers Energy Foun…The Greater Cincinnat…Network for GoodCharities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…
Community Foundation of Greater FlintMI17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Meyer Family Foundation · The Williamson Foundation Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Czmer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Czmer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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