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Fabiano Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $282k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $102,000 |
| SACRED HEART FOUNDATION | $80,240 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $50,000 |
| NOTRE DAME | $50,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HATS | $10,000 |
| DOW SPORTS BOOSTER CLUB | $5,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HARBOR HALL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| ST MICHAEL HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| MCNISH FAMILY FOUNDATION | $615 |
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 (FY21–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +110% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- LTLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +95%
- NCNORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $7k · revenue ×11
- HHHARBOR HALL FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $7k · revenue +188%
Funded once
- CMCENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL)one grant, 2017 · $50k
- GLGreat Lakes Center for the Artsgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +85%
- MAMP AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $20k
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.
Receives, invests, and disburse contributions raised to support Michigan Technological University.
To advance the well-being of michigan residents through the promotion of sound public policies and responsible legislation. the purpose of these activities is to promote policies that strengthen the michigan health care system.
To provide financial assistance to individuals and institutions for educational and scientific purposes in order to advance science to benefit the health and welfare of animals.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
To advance the field of health for the public good.
To advance pharmacy through education, practice innovation and research focused on patient care, for the improvement and promotion of public health and public education.
The mission of the lake michigan college foundation is to raise funds in support of lake michigan college and its students. the lake michigan college foundation is the main fund-raising organization of lake michigan college for the…
The mackinac island community foundation promotes the general well-being of island residents and visitors, by working in community partnerships to generate endowed and un-endowed funds and stimulate community-wide initiatives.
Cooperatively empowering credit unions to increase financial well-being by supporting community enrichment, financial education, and credit union development initiatives
To receive and administer funds exclusively for the benefit of and further any and all charitable, scientific, and educational activities in which the Mackinac Center, a Michigan nonprofit corporation (DBA Mackinac Center for Public…
To promote the advancement of business and community in macomb county, michigan.
To support montcalm community college's efforts to anticipate and address community needs through relationship cultivation and resource stewardship.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Temple Theatre Foundation. 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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 67 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 MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL TREATMENT SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Mount Pleasant Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds MYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCNISH FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS FESTIVAL OF THE BOOK ↗
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: Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd · Consumers Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Mps Foundation · The Morey Foundation · William T & Ann D McCormick Educational and Charitable Foundation · Triford Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · The Offield Family 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 Fabiano 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.