· Private foundation
Ed & June Prein 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARY FREE BED FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| ST MARY'S FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| THE ADVANCEMENT CENTER | $25,000 |
| COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER | $20,000 |
| JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $10,000 |
| FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS | $10,000 |
| PAWS WITH A CAUSE | $10,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| HELEN DEVOS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION FOR CHILD & FAMILY LIFE | $10,000 |
| CAMP AO-WA-KIYA | $10,000 |
| HOLY CROSS MISSION CENTER | $10,000 |
| FOREST HILLS SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| I'M SAFE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% 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 +9% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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
- WTWASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $109k · revenue +57%
- TJTHE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +235%
- TFTHE FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +150%
Funded once
- ASAUTISM SUPPORT OF KENT COUNTY INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -4%
- MBMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +36%
- KCKENT COUNTY YOUTH AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -68%
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.
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 a holistic, multidisciplinary education to learners of all abilities
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.
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
The fort wayne museum of art will collect, preserve and present american and related art to engage and educate broad and diverse audiences throughout the region and add value to their lives.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
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.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
Serving to improve west central minnesota through funding, programs, and technical assistance. vision of a vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable world starts here in west central minnesota.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indian River Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
22 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. 22 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 WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SUPPORT OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Center of West Michigan ↗
- Who funds MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP AO-WA-KIYA ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds KENT COUNTY YOUTH AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · The Korff Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Ed & June Prein 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
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.