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Eagles for Children
EAGLES FOR CHILDREN is a nonprofit organization committed to supporting local charities for disadvantaged youth through partnerships with golf clubs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 70 grants below total $759,269 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $922,648 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $163,379 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k40 grants · $315k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $444k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMILY ANN GRIFFIN FOUNDATION | $27,000 |
| NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES | $26,000 |
| CAMP CASEY | $25,621 |
| GIRLS MATTER SURVIVING THE SOCIAL JUNGLE | $22,596 |
| VARIETY | $22,000 |
| GENESIS THE CHURCH | $21,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,500 |
| METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY | $18,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,387 |
| LOST VOICES | $15,000 |
| GIFTS FOR ALL GOD'S CHILDREN | $14,806 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE DETROIT | $14,700 |
| MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC | $12,500 |
| HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE | $12,500 |
| BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST | $12,068 |
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 (FY17–21, $450k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Eagles for Children’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2021, 12 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k 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
- CCCAMP CASEY CORPORATION5× · 2017–2021 · $97k · revenue +82%
- JCJUDSON CENTER INC5× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +20%
- GFGIFTS FOR ALL GODS CHILDREN4× · 2018–2021 · $43k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- LOLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND CO2× · 2017–2018 · $18k
- SRSOUTH REDFORD FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE2× · 2017–2018 · $18k
- GPGRACE & PEACE COMMUNITY CHURCHLEAP INTO LEARNINGone grant, 2020 · $16k
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 ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.
To be a champion for parents of children in the community.
We empower children to overcome challenges.
Provide support, services and aid to current, future and past foster, adoptive and relative parents who are or were in the foster care system.
To ensure that policymakers prioritize the needs of the most challenged children from cradle to career.
The Youth Connection is committed to connecting all youth and their families in metro Detroit to a brighter future by providing quality programs and supportive services.
Michigan casa, inc. is dedicated to changing the lives of abused and neglected children by advocating for their best interests through establishing, supporting, and expanding quality casa programs throughout the state of michigan to ensure…
Friends of the children - detroit has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Growing hope through love is organized as a child welfare agency that maintains a child placing agency license through the department of child welfare licensing and contracts with michigan department of health and human services to license…
To help disadvantaged youth transform their lives by providing learning experiences in a fun and safe christian environment, free of charge.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rainbow Connection and the most unlike its peers is Wish Upon a Teen. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 116 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 CAMP CASEY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JUDSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIFTS FOR ALL GODS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPOINTE INC ↗
- Who funds EMILY ANN GRIFFIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Methodist Children's Home Society ↗
- Who funds TED LINDSAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds THE RAINBOW CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF PLYMOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ↗
- Who funds Kids Coalition Against Hunger ↗
- Who funds LIFE REMODELED ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Math Corps ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAS ↗
- Who funds OFFERING ALTERNATIVE THERAPY WITH SMILES ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH OAKLAND SCAMP FUNDING CORP ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT 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: Canton Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Carls Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Deroy Testamentary Foundation · Helen L Kay Charitable Trust · Detroit Industrial School
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 Eagles for Children 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.