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Douglas and Mary Kapnick Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$227kArts & Culture$117kYouth Development$115kEducation$100kReligion$83kFood & Nutrition$43kPublic Benefit$35kHuman Services$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAM BEAUFORD WOODWORKING INSTITUTE$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE$1,750
LAKE SUPERIOR STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE$250
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ASSOCIATED CHARITIES: $3k → 12%JASMYNN'S VOICE: $1k → 12%JASMYN'S VOICE: $1k → 12%JASMYN'S VOICE: $1k → 12%JASMYN'S VOICE: $1k → 12%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$696k · 19 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
18

Total granted

$696k
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+26%

Still filing today

58%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +100%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF LENAWEE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $107k · revenue +2%
  • HC
    HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • YO
    YMCA OF LENAWEE COUNTY
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • PF
    PROMEDICA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -16%
  • SH
    SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +8%
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
Tecumseh Chamber of Commerce

To promote lenawee area businesses

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2
Lenawee Emergency and Affordable Housing Corp

to advance housing stability and affordable opportunities for low income people especially those in crisis or at risk individuals and families within Lenawee County

Housing & Shelter
3
Leelanau Conservancy

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.

Environment
4
Lenawee Council for the Visual Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Lenawee County Mission

To bring hope to neighbors in need through a comprehensive suite of christ centered programs

Human Services
6
Montessori Childrens House of Lenawee Inc

Education of young people in the Montessori method

Human Services
7
Agricultural Society of Lenawee County

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Lenawee Symphony Orchestra Inc

The aso is dedicated to the advancement of classical music appreciation by providing a variety of presentations including classical, pops, and family concerts.

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9
Leech Lake Area Chamber of Commerce

Attract and inform visitors to and about the leech lake area.

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10
Lapeer Area Chamber of Commerce

The lapeer area chamber of commerce is committed to continiously promoting & fostering the business climate to enhance the quality of life in our community.

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11
Lapeer Development Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
12
Lenawee County Education Foundation

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lenawee Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOSPICE OF LENAWEE: $107,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF LENAWEEHOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $90,000 · OtherHOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INCHIDDEN LAKES GARDENS: $43,100 · OtherHIDDEN LAKES GARDENSUNITED FIRST METHODIST CHRUCH: $40,000 · OtherUNITED FIRST METHODIST CHRUCHIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYMCA OF LENAWEE COUNTY: $25,000 · OtherYMCA OF LENAWEE COUNTYADRIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherSHARE THE WARMTH: $20,000 · Other+20 more: $92,450 · Other+20 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE INC: $115,229 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CL…CROSWELL OPERA HOUSE & FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $85,050 · Arts & CultureCROSWELL OP…SAM BEAUFORD WOODWORKING INST: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSAM BEAUFOR…+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureADRIAN COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationADRIAN CO…SIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationSIENA HEI…MACKINAC CENTER: $25,000 · Public BenefitPROMEDICA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $1,000 · Public BenefitLENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $22,000 · PhilanthropyLENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $18,000 · PhilanthropyLENAWEE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $28,000 · Religion
Other$467,550Youth Development$115,229Arts & Culture$90,550Education$75,000Public Benefit$51,000Philanthropy$40,000Religion$28,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE INC: $115,229 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetHOSPICE OF LENAWEE: $107,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $90,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetCROSWELL OPERA HOUSE & FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $85,050 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetADRIAN COLLEGE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLENAWEE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $28,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROMEDICA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE THE WARMTH: $20,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetDEVILS LAKE YACHT CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLenawee Economic Development Corp: $5,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSAM BEAUFORD WOODWORKING INST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJASMYNNS VOICE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Lenawee County: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF LENAWEE COUNTY: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetVISIT LENAWEE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

Farver FoundationLenawee Community Fou…Premier Bank Foundati…Bell TrustThe S L Hickman Famil…Maurice&Dorothy Stubn…Sage FoundationTlc Community Credit …Promedica Health Syst…The Murray Family Fou…Consumers Energy Foun…Robert B Westfall Fou…
Farver FoundationMI30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Douglas and Mary Kapnick Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Douglas and Mary Kapnick Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Douglas and Mary Kapnick Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Douglas and Mary Kapnick Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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