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Drsamuel Shaheen Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT GERARD SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BAY FUTURE INC | $10,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SAGINAW FUTURE CAMPAIGN | $1,000 |
| FIRST WARD COMMUNITY SERVICE-CENTER | $1,000 |
| CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- ARALBION REINVESTMENT CORPORATION4× · 2017–2023 · $84k · revenue +18%
- TTEMPLEARTS3× · 2017–2020 · $32k · revenue +385%
- SBSAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY3× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- SASAGINAW AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2023 · $25k
- CCCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MMone grant, 2017 · $15k
- AOAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +156%
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 be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
To receive, administer, and distribute funds to promote and encourage research, scholarship, creative activities, and other applied research and technology at CMU.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
To educate through collaboration of the construction industry, our membership, employees, and communities; and to develop professional workplace competencies and skills while promoting the construction industry as a career choice.
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…
To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Council of Michigan Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Temple Theatre Foundation. 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 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 62 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 ALBION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALBION REINVESTMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TEMPLEARTS ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SAINT GERARD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds BAY FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds MID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Midland Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW COOPERATIVE HOSPITALS INC DBA/CMU MEDICAL EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS SERVICES INC ↗
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: Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Morley Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Robert W & Eileen E Hesse Memorial Fund · Thieme Family 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 Drsamuel Shaheen 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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