· Private foundation
Events for Good
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JDRF | $11,521 |
| UPWARD BOUND | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| MICHIGAN MOUNTAIN BIKING ASSN | $4,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $2,065 |
| BCRFORG | $2,000 |
| LEAGUE OF MICHIGAN BICYCLISTS | $1,226 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB HOLLAND | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $520 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE | $500 |
| SKYDIVE BRONCOS | $417 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FELT | $400 |
| MAKE A WISH | $210 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $100 |
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 (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of your 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.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
MDRC5× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +36%- UBUPWARD BOUND3× · 2022–2024 · $29k
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2021–2024 · $23k
Funded once
- FCFEARLESS CHURCHESone grant, 2023 · $500
- GOGIRLS ON THE RUN OTTAWA COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $300
- BCBENTHEIM CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $250
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.
A voice of the building industry in Michigan. The primary purpose is to positively influence the legislative, regulatory and legal issues that affect the industry.
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.
Preserving, protecting, and promoting mountain bike access and diverse riding opportunities on metropolitain detroit's public lands through education, communication, and unified action.
To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.
The league's mission is to promote racial equity, economic security, health, and well being for all people in michigan through policy change.
The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…
Michigan Rising Action is focused on holding special interest networks accountable and advancing conservative principles. We're fighting for limited government, lowering taxes, fighting government over-regulation that stifles freedom, free…
Michigan conservative action policies (mcap) is an organization dedicated to educating michiganders on important policy issues. the organization conducts policy research and public polling in michigan to better understand current opinions…
To advocate for the cannabis manufacturers in michigan
Social welfare and issue advocacy
Our mission is to amplify connect and support the people organizations and communities demanding urgent bold and equitable solutions for a just transition to a resilient future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trevor Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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 23 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 MDRC ↗
- Who funds THE ALEX MANDARINO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Michigan Mountain Biking Association ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF MICHIGAN BICYCLISTS INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FELT ESTATE ↗
- Who funds GRANDVILLE ACADEMIC TEAM BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
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 Events for Good 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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