· Private foundation
Douglas and Mary Kapnick 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of DOUGLAS AND MARY KAPNICK FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAM BEAUFORD WOODWORKING INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE | $1,750 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE | $250 |
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 (FY19–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +62% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 18 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +100%
- HOHOSPICE OF LENAWEE6× · 2019–2024 · $107k · revenue +2%
- HCHOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- YOYMCA OF LENAWEE COUNTYone grant, 2019 · $25k
- PFPROMEDICA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -16%
- SHSIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +8%
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.
To promote lenawee area businesses
to advance housing stability and affordable opportunities for low income people especially those in crisis or at risk individuals and families within Lenawee County
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 Lenawee Council for the Visual Arts is organized for educational and charitable purposes. Specifically, the L.C.V.A. is organized to provide opportunities for visual artists in Lenawee County Michigan, to foster pride and involvement…
To bring hope to neighbors in need through a comprehensive suite of christ centered programs
Education of young people in the Montessori method
Conduct the lenawee county fair to promote agricultural and horticultural activities in lenawee county. this associations only activity with the exception of off season rentals and storage revenue.
The aso is dedicated to the advancement of classical music appreciation by providing a variety of presentations including classical, pops, and family concerts.
Attract and inform visitors to and about the leech lake area.
The lapeer area chamber of commerce is committed to continiously promoting & fostering the business climate to enhance the quality of life in our community.
To lead and coordinate economic development throughout lapeer county and to provide a link between federal, state and local governments and businesses interested in locating or expanding in lapeer county michigan. the lapeer development…
The foundation's primary objective is to receive and disburse funds, property and gifts of any kind exclusively for the benefit of the lenawee intermediate school district and its educational system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lenawee Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Jasmynns Voice Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 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. 21 of the 40 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF LENAWEE ↗
- Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CROSWELL OPERA HOUSE & FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ADRIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LENAWEE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROMEDICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE THE WARMTH ↗
- Who funds LENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEVILS LAKE YACHT CLUB ↗
- Who funds Lenawee Economic Development Corp ↗
- Who funds SAM BEAUFORD WOODWORKING INST ↗
- Who funds JASMYNNS VOICE INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Lenawee County ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF LENAWEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VISIT LENAWEE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LENAWEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Farver Foundation · Lenawee Community Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Bell Trust · The S L Hickman Family Foundation · Maurice&Dorothy Stubnitz Foundation · Sage Foundation · Tlc Community Credit Union · Promedica Health System Inc · The Murray Family Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Robert B Westfall 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 Douglas and Mary Kapnick 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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