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Edelweiss 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 $10k12 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,800 |
| UNITED WAY OF FLINT MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF FLINT | $10,000 |
| CRU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| CRIME STOPPER OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY | $7,500 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| ISLAMIC COUNCIL OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND | $5,000 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| ADOPT-A-PET | $3,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE OF GREATER FLINT | $2,500 |
| THE SUPPORT NETWORK | $2,000 |
| BAYVIEW MACKINAC RACE ENDOWMENT | $1,200 |
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 (FY19–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those 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 +46% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 13 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
- UOUniversity of Michigan2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +139%
- FIFlint Institute of Music3× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +120%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D2× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- AHAUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INCone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -14%
- FIFlint Institute of Artsgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +27%
- BBBIRMINGHAM BLOOMFIELD ART COUNCILone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
The flint center for educational excellence is building an educational ecosystem that works for all flint kids by providing programs. research, and advocacy that ensure flint kids, their families, schools, and communities thrive.
Ku prepares students for lives of extraordinary leadership and service by linking transformative experiential learning opportunities to rigorous academic programs.
The Association is an independent worldwide organization that nurtures lifelong relationships with and among current and future Michigan alumni. As a committed partner of the University the Association offers programs of relevance and…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Helping families and neighborhoods succeed by providing a place and support to assure kids ages 0-5 are school ready and families are healthy and stable.
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 the common economic interests of all the commercial enterprises in the Genesee County, Michigan community. The Organization strives to enhance the business climate in the area and advocates for public policy that supports…
To be a contemporary forum for thevisual arts through education, exploration, collaboration and exhibition, and to engage minds, expand perspectives and inspire growth in students of all ages, teachers, artists, and the community.
Fragile X Association of Michigan unites the MI Fragile X community to: Enrich lives through educational & emotional support, promote public and professional awareness, advance research toward improved treatments and a cure for fragile X…
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…
Housed in flint, michigan, we are a non-profit with a mission to relieve the innovator of the entrepreneurial burden. we know entrepreneurship can be difficult, and that's why we're here to help. as a community of student professionals,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Flint Children's Museum and the most unlike its peers is Grosse Pointe Historical Society. 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 44 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 74 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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Bloomfield Art Ctr Inc ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC COUNCIL OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Music ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds CRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds FIXED POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NOVA UKRAINE ↗
- Who funds TAU BETA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-PET INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' PLACE ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FLINT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Anna Paulina Foundation · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Ruth Mott Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Nartel Family Foundation · Charles Stewart Harding Foundation · The Hagerman Foundation · William & Martha Ford Fund · The Serra Foundation · Catholic Foundation of Michigan
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 Edelweiss 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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