· Private foundation
Edward J Sackerson Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k44 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $72k
- $250k+1 grant · $292k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY NAME CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $292,356 |
| ST JOSEPH & ST PATRICK CHURCH | $21,262 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,500 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY ESCANABA | $15,500 |
| ESCANABA AREA FIGURE SKATING CLUB | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $10,000 |
| DELTA COUNTY CANCER ALLIANCE | $8,000 |
| PATHWAYS COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH | $8,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $7,000 |
| WILLIAM BONIFAS FINE ARTS CENTER | $7,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE UP | $7,000 |
| PREGNANCY SERVICES OF DELTA COUNTY | $6,000 |
| DELTA ANIMAL SHELTER | $6,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF DELTA COUNTY | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
80 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- DCDELTA COUNTY CANCER ALLIANCE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +11%
- DADELTA ANIMAL SHELTER7× · 2018–2024 · $31k · revenue +83%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY2× · 2023–2024 · $27k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- EBESKY BAND BOOSTERSone grant, 2022 · $7k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- KOKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL #640 ESCANABAone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Community development
Encourage outdoor activities, physical activities for children, community service, and overall health of community individuals.
Maintains snowmobile trails in houghton and ontonagon counties in the upper peninsula of michigan.
To promote and support the optimal development and well being of youth and adults who have a primary physical or visual impairment through the provision of inclusive recreational, fitness, and competitive sports activiites.
It is the detroit skating club's mission to cultivate programs and provide facilities for the ice sports community that enable participants to achieve their goals in a safe environment.
To provide recreational ski trail to area residents and to visitors to gogebic county, michigan. to provide cross country ski lessons and to hold other fitness conscious events during the year.
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place
Member programs/services, economic development
The dark sky coast association is a non-profit organization supporting the development, protection and sustainability of michigans dark sky coast in northern emmet county.
We are a historic, private yacht club dedicated to providing a variety of outstanding dining, social, recreational and boating programs for our members, families and guests.
State of michigan snonmobile trails and atv trails groomed and maintained. hunter safety courses conducted. fish plants made in public streams
Youth sports
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Menominee-Delta-Schoolcraft Community Action Agency Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eskymo Fan Club. 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 37 years old; the field is 28. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% 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 123 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE UPPER PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds DELTA COUNTY CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds LAKESTATE INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM BONIFAS FINE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY SERVICES OF DELTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds MENOMINEE-DELTA-SCHOOLCRAFT COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY SAFE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ESCANABA PUBLIC LIBR ↗
- Who funds ESCANABA AREA FIGURE SKATING CLUB ↗
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 of the Upper Peninsula · The Donald and Audrey Anderson Foundation · Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation · John and Melissa Besse Foundation · Daniel J Kobasic Foundation · United Way of Delta County · Superior Health Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Edward J Sackerson Charitable 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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