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Dole 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.
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 $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY | $11,000 |
| GRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA | $10,000 |
| THREE LAKES ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| TORCH LAKE PROTECTION ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| PADDLE ANTRIM | $5,000 |
| TORCH CONSERVATION CENTER | $4,000 |
| THE WATERSHED CENTER | $2,000 |
| NORTH AMERICAN FISH & WILDLIFE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- GTGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY6× · 2020–2025 · $84k · revenue +230%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN3× · 2020–2022 · $82k · revenue +49%
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC3× · 2020–2022 · $36k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- OAOpen & Affirming Coalitionone grant, 2020 · $2k
- TOTHE OPEN AND AFFIRMING COALITION OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +40%
- LCLand Conservancy of West Michiganone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -38%
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.
The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…
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.
Portage Lake environment preservation
Heart of the Lakes provides technical assistance, leadership training, and strategic communication tools that help organizations thrive - from grassroots land conservancies to larger regional conservation groups. Programs such as peer…
To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.
Acquire and otherwise manage conservation of lands within the watershed of Higgins Lake
Glacial Lakes Conservancy, as a land trust, is a nonprofit organization that, as part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions.
It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…
To coordinate actions for protecting and restoring the health of owasco lake and its watershed to ensure that owasco lake will serve as a source of public drinking water, a recreational asset, an economic driver, and an important natural…
To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Washington State Community Connectors. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 26 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 GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THREE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA INC ↗
- Who funds TORCH LAKE PROTECTION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TORCH CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds PADDLE ANTRIM ↗
- Who funds POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN AND AFFIRMING COALITION OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST ↗
- Who funds The Pride Foundation ↗
- Who funds Land Conservancy of West Michigan ↗
- Who funds Washington State Community Connectors ↗
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: The Herrington-Fitch Family Foundation Inc C/O Leslie Lee · The Bruce and Nancy Brown Family Charitable Foundation · Edp Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Dole 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.
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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