· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT GERARD SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BAY FUTURE INC | $10,000 |
| JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FIRST WARD COMMUNITY SERVICE-CENTER | $1,000 |
| THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| SAGINAW FUTURE CAMPAIGN | $1,000 |
| CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +139%
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.
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.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 62 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 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 BAY FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Drsamuel Shaheen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Drsamuel Shaheen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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