· Private foundation
Evergreene Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Krasl Art Center | $5,000 |
| Otsego Area Historical Society | $5,000 |
| Three Rivers Public Library Friends | $4,000 |
| Marcellus Library | $4,000 |
| Friends of the Mendon Library | $4,000 |
| Friends of Otsego Public Library | $4,000 |
| Benton Harbor Public Library | $4,000 |
| Water Street Glassworks | $4,000 |
| Sturgis Area Community Foundation-Scidmore Park | $4,000 |
| Southwest MI Land Conservancy | $4,000 |
| Mendon Community School Foundation | $4,000 |
| Kairos Dwelling | $3,000 |
| Domestic Sexual Abuse Services St Joseph County | $3,000 |
| Keystone Place Inc | $3,000 |
| Otsego Public Schools Foundation | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
51 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- WSWATER STREET GLASSWORKS9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +93%
EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +82%- SMSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- OPOTSEGO PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $2k
- BHBeacon Health Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +353%
- OPOSTEGO PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
Community art center organized to promote, stimulate and encourage involvement, appreciation, enjoyment and understanding of the arts in mid-michigan
Promote and foster the arts by providing a community venue and programming for the visual arts, performing arts and art education.
To provide a cultural center and museum for the city of port huron and environs, and to encourage and solicit the giving of objects of art, scientific, or historic interest for display and exhibitions.
To develop and promote arts in the greater toledo community
To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs
Bring recognition to the cultural arts and promote economic and cultural development in the downtown rockport area.
The mission of the art garage is to encourage an appreciation for the participation in the visual, performing and literary arts.
Providing access to the arts, design and creative collaboration for all ages and abilities throughout the belfast and montvillecommunities in waldo county, maine.
To provide financial support for the grand rapids art museum.
Preserving the history of our area brings an understanding to the past and present, and provides a guide for the future. we not only maintain exhibits, artifacts and a research library, we provide a forum for engaging the community and…
To nurture, exhibit and promote the visual arts
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Krasl Art Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Twin City Players. 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 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 61 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 WATER STREET GLASSWORKS ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds KRASL ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVENCY INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Otsego Public Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds MENDON COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KAIROS DWELLING ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS ACADEMIC MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds Benton Harbor Arts Association ↗
- Who funds ARS ARTS & CULTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITY PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS PROMISE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE CENTER COUNCIL FOR THE ART ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds APPLE FARM COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS FOOD SITE INC ↗
- Who funds MARCELLUS COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
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: John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Berrien Community Foundation Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · The Schalon Foundation · St Joseph County United Way · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Evergreene 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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