· Private foundation
Esther & George Jaruga Charitable Foundation
Its FY2022 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2022.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY | $194,000 |
| SOUTH WEST MICHIGAN LAND CON | $40,000 |
| MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| I HEART DOGS | $20,000 |
| THE CURE STARTS NOW | $20,000 |
| OCEF | $20,000 |
| GREENSBURG WOMENS CLUB OF ITALIAN W | $20,000 |
| MERCY EDUCATION PROJECT | $20,000 |
| MERIMANS PLAYHOUSE | $20,000 |
| ST ANNE CARE AND SHARE FUND | $20,000 |
| FARMINGTON YMCA | $10,000 |
| LOVE INC OF NORTH OAKLAND COUNTY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| CRIBS FOR KIDS | $4,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of your 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.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY5× · 2017–2022 · $354k · revenue +20%
MERCY EDUCATION PROJECT5× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +10%
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY5× · 2017–2022 · $55k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- GCGREENSBURG CLUB OF ITALIAN WOMENone grant, 2017 · $20k
- GFGROTTOS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- ALASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MID-MISSOURIgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +56%
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.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Creating healthy communities - together
We, mercy health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health partners is a member of mercy health and trinity health.
Creating healthy communities - together
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.…
We honor life through donation.
We, mercy college of health sciences and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy college of health sciences is a member of trinity health.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
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.…
Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…
Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Love Inc of North Oakland County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 21 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 DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CURE STARTS NOW INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF NORTH OAKLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CRIBS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MID-MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
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.
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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 Esther & George Jaruga 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.