· Private foundation
Daniel J Kobasic Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $114k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $579k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OSF Healthare Foundation | $308,663 |
| Delta Schoolcraft ISD | $305,000 |
| Holy Name Catholic School | $264,000 |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network | $250,000 |
| MAPS Education Foundation | $134,447 |
| The William Bonifas Fine Arts Center | $119,100 |
| Bay Cliff Health Camp | $115,000 |
| Save Ukraine | $110,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Delta County Chamber of Commerce | $50,000 |
| InvestUP | $20,000 |
| Michigan Technological University | $16,081 |
| Lawrence University | $15,000 |
| Rapid River Schools Foundation | $15,000 |
| University of Notre Dame | $15,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
31 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $521k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $605k · revenue +15%- BCBAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP2× · 2023–2024 · $395k · revenue +2%
- UOUniversity of Michigan5× · 2020–2024 · $319k · revenue +139% · 59% of their budget
Funded once
- SMSteve Mariucci Famnily Beacon Houseone grant, 2022 · $50k
- STSt Thomas the Apostleone grant, 2020 · $5k
- GLGreat Lakes Shipwreck Museumone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Collective bargaining and representation
Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Up land conservancy protects land in michigan's upper peninsula by owning it as nature preserves and working forest reserves, and through conservation easements(perpetual, voluntary agreements that guard the conservation values of the…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
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…
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 mission of madonna university, a catholic and franciscan institution of higher learning, is to instill in its students christain humanistic values, intellectual inquiry, a respect for university and a committment to serving others…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 43 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 PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds SAVE UKRAINE INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM BONIFAS FINE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds INVEST UP ↗
- Who funds Gary Abrahamson Jr Memory Care Center ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds SHARING NOTES ↗
- Who funds UP STEAM & GAS ENGINE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ESCANABA PUBLIC LIBR ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services of the Upper Peninsula 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: Edward J Sackerson Charitable Foundation · The Donald and Audrey Anderson Foundation · Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation · 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 Daniel J Kobasic Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Daniel J Kobasic Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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