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· Private foundation
ESTHER & GEORGE JARUGA CHARITABLE
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$419k
Granted FY2022
15
Grants
4
Communities
$194k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of ESTHER & GEORGE JARUGA CHARITABLE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2022 · 15 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $194k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY$194,000
- SOUTH WEST MICHIGAN LAND CON$40,000
- I HEART DOGS$20,000
- THE CURE STARTS NOW$20,000
- OCEF$20,000
- MERCY EDUCATION PROJECT$20,000
- GREENSBURG WOMENS CLUB OF ITALIAN W$20,000
- MERIMANS PLAYHOUSE$20,000
- ST ANNE CARE AND SHARE FUND$20,000
- MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY$20,000
- FARMINGTON YMCA$10,000
- LOVE INC OF NORTH OAKLAND COUNTY$5,000
- THINKING OF NIKKI$4,000
- CRIBS FOR KIDS$4,000
- ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$2,000
02The need
03
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 67% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$960k · 17 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
17
4
Total granted
$960k
$42k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+36%
+55%
Still filing today
41%
25%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationAnimalsHealthReligionArts & CultureOther
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
MERCY EDUCATION PROJECT5× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +59%
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY5× · 2017–2022 · $55k · revenue +36%- TCTHE CURE STARTS NOW5× · 2017–2022 · $49k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- GCGREENSBURG CLUB OF ITALIAN WOMENone grant, 2017 · $20k
- ALASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MID MISSOURIgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +55%
- GFGROTTOS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Michigan State Medical Society
Promote a health care environment that supports physicians in caring for and enhancing the health of michigan citizens through science, quality, and ethics in the practice of medicine.
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2
Opera Grand Rapids
The mission of the Opera Grand Rapids is to produce professional opera of the highest possible quality and to effectively share the art with a broad and diverse audience.
Arts & Culture
3
Milwaukee School of Engineering
Milwaukee school of engineering (the "university") is a nonprofit, nonsectarian university providing a balanced education at the undergraduate and graduate level for men and women in the disciplines of engineering, business, mathematics,…
Education
4
Alumni Association of the University of Michigan
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…
Education
5
Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and
To develop and promote efforts for the elimination of domestic and sexual violence.
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6
Michigan Enviromental Council
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about enviromental issues.
Environment
7
Madonna University
The mission of madonna university, a catholic and franciscan institution of higher learning, is to instill in its students christian humanistic values, intellectual inquiry, a respect for diversity, and a commitment to serving others…
Education
8
Michigan Chamber of Commerce
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
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9
Mount Mercy University
Provide undergraduate and graduate higher education for approximately 1,400 students.
Education
10
Michigan Pharmacists Association
To represent the pharmacy profession for advancing public health and patient care in mi.
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11
Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
Arts & Culture
12
Michigan Peer Review Organization
Improving quality, safety, and efficiency across the healthcare continuum.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Detroit Opera. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$457,000Education$414,000Animals$55,000Health$49,000Religion$25,000Arts & Culture$2,000
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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: 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 organisation ESTHER & GEORGE JARUGA CHARITABLE 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LOVE INC OF NORTH OAKLAND COUNTY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 205190257 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on LOVE INC OF NORTH OAKLAND COUNTY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Esther & George Jaruga Charitable?
Find your warmest path to Esther & George Jaruga Charitable through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines