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Farver Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$314k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$686kArts & Culture$486kFood & Nutrition$276kEducation$236kPhilanthropy$173kYouth Development$141kHuman Services$123kHousing & Shelter$115kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $121k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $113k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROMEDICA HICKMAN HOSPITAL FND$79,500
LENAWEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$33,600
ADRIAN COLLEGE$22,050
HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER$15,000
Individual grant recipient$12,190
ADRIAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS$10,180
Individual grant recipient$10,000
END CHILDHOOD HUNGER$10,000
SOUTH FLORIDA HUNGER COALITION$9,000
ALIGN CENTER FOR WORKPLACE DEVELOPM$8,000
LENAWEE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$8,000
LENAWEE HUMANE SOCIETY$7,710
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE$7,500
KIDS HAVE RIGHTS$6,000
CROSWELL OPERA HOUSE$5,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $154k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%USBG NATIONAL CHARITY FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%USBG NATIONAL CHARITY FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%KIDS IN DISTRESS: $5k → 13%TEAM OF LIFE INC: $5k → 13%TEAM OF LIFE INC: $5k → 13%TEAM OF LIFE INC: $4k → 13%HARVEST DRIVE: $8k → 13%HARVEST DRIVE: $6k → 13%HARVEST DRIVE: $5k → 13%HARVEST DRIVE: $5k → 13%HARVEST DRIVE: $4k → 13%HARVEST DRIVE: $3k → 13%SOUTH FLORIDA HUNGER COALITION: $20k → 13%SOUTH FLORIDA HUNGER COALITION: $20k → 13%SOUTH FLORIDA HUNGER COALITION: $15k → 13%SOUTH FLORIDA HUNGER COALITION: $10k → 13%SOUTH FLORIDA HUNGER COALITION: $9k → 13%SOUTH FLORIDA HUNGER COALITION: $5k → 13%SOUTH FLORIDA HUNGER COALITION: $5k → 13%SOUTH FLORIDA HUNGER COALITION: $5k → 13%ASSOCIATED CHARITIES: $5k → 12%LENAWEE COUNTY MISSION: $5k → 12%LENAWEE COUNTY MISSION: $3k → 12%FAMILY COUNSELING AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF LENAWEE COUNTY: $3k → 12%ADRIAN ARMORY COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NV
OH
PA
AZ
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 67 repeat orgs$221k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
39

Total granted

$2.3M
$201k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+35%

Still filing today

46%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CO
    CROSWELL OPERA HOUSE & FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $306k · revenue +62%
  • AC
    ADRIAN COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $127k · revenue +16%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • PB
    PROMEDICA BIXBY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $63k
  • BA
    BLISSFIELD AREA LITTLE LEAGUE
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Visit Lenawee

To promote lenawee county as a destination providing contemporary amenities to transient guests in a historical and cultural setting for the economic benefit of the community.

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2
Lenawee Community Foundation

We connect people who care with causes that matter, bringing health, happiness, and hope to our community, now and forever.

Philanthropy
3
Habitat for Humanity of Lapeer - Tuscola

To eliminate sub-standard housing and homelessness from lapeer county.

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4
ShareCare of Leelanau Inc

To facilitate connecting the Leelanau county community of seniors with services and activities that promote a healthy independent and fulfilled lifestyle while aging.

Human Services
5
Montessori Childrens House of Lenawee Inc

Education of young people in the Montessori method

Human Services
6
Lee County Farm BureauInc

Lee County Farm Bureau's mission is to work for the betterment of agriculture in Lee county.

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7
Leelanau Conservancy

To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.

Environment
8
Tecumseh Chamber of Commerce

To promote lenawee area businesses

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9
The United Way of Lee County Inc

The United Way of Lee, Hendry, and Glades is a volunteer driven organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for all people in our community. Continued on Schedule OOur United Way supports and helps coordinate the human service…

Philanthropy
10
Hospice Homes of Genesee and Lapeer Counties

To provide housing and end of life care and support to terminally ill individuals.

Human Services
11
Mi Lewis Social Services

Emergency assistance in the form of food, utilities, rent, etc.

—
12
United Way of Lapeer County

To unite the community by developing resources to meet the community needs.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbors 4 Neighbors; the most unlike its peers is Adrian Schools Education Foundation. 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

47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 112 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
36/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROMEDICA HICKMAN HOSPITAL FND: $315,000 · OtherPROMEDICA HICKMAN HOSPITAL FNDLENAWEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $162,800 · OtherLENAWEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $121,339 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPROMEDICA HERRICK HOSPITAL FND: $94,500 · OtherPROMEDICA HERRICK HOSPITAL FNDBIXBY MEDICAL CENTER HEALTH FOUNDATION: $71,500 · OtherLENAWEE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $66,479 · OtherEND CHILDHOOD HUNGER INC: $66,000 · OtherHOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $65,100 · OtherPROMEDICA BIXBY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $62,700 · Other+80 more: $686,658 · Other+80 moreCROSWELL OPERA HOUSE & FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $305,775 · Arts & CultureCROSWELL OPERA…+2 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH FLORIDA HUNGER COALITION CO MICHAEL FARVER: $89,000 · Human ServicesHARVEST DRIVE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTEAM OF LIFE INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $13,025 · Human ServicesLENAWEE COUNTY MISSION: $7,500 · Human Services+5 more: $13,750 · Human ServicesADRIAN COLLEGE: $127,400 · Education+2 more: $4,500 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE INC: $105,150 · Youth DevelopmentPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentLenawee Humane Society: $93,335 · AnimalsANIMAL AID INC: $4,000 · Animals+1 more: $2,500 · AnimalsLENAWEE EMERGENCY AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORP: $11,500 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $7,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,712,076Arts & Culture$320,775Human Services$167,275Education$131,900Youth Development$109,650Animals$99,835Housing & Shelter$19,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCROSWELL OPERA HOUSE & FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION: $305,775 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetADRIAN COLLEGE: $127,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE INC: $105,150 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetLenawee Humane Society: $93,335 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA HUNGER COALITION CO MICHAEL FARVER: $89,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetLENAWEE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $66,479 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $65,100 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetHARVEST DRIVE INC: $30,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetADRIAN SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHOSPICE OF LENAWEE: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE THE WARMTH: $17,040 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNEIGHBORS 4 NEIGHBORS: $17,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetLenawee Economic Development Corp: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetREYNA GROUP HOMES FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTEAM OF LIFE INC: $14,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetWOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $13,025 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLENAWEE EMERGENCY AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORP: $11,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLIVING HUNGRY INC: $10,250 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetRIVER RAISIN RAGTIME REVUE: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetDAILY BREAD OF LENAWEE INC: $8,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $7,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLENAWEE COUNTY MISSION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $7,300 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF LENAWEE COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetInside Out Theatre Company Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Lenawee County: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKIDS IN DISTRESS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL AID INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELING & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF LENAWEE COUNTY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOVE FOR CATS ANIMAL RESCUE: $2,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE FOR SIERAH: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUSBG NATIONAL CHARITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPACKAGES FROM HOME: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC LIVINGSTON: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Borgen Project: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADRIAN ARMORY COMMUNITY CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CROSWELL OPERA HOUSE & FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ADRIAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE INC ↗
  • Who funds Lenawee Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA HUNGER COALITION CO MICHAEL FARVER ↗
  • Who funds LENAWEE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HARVEST DRIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds ADRIAN SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF LENAWEE ↗
  • Who funds SHARE THE WARMTH ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORS 4 NEIGHBORS ↗
  • Who funds LENAWEE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Lenawee Economic Development Corp ↗
  • Who funds REYNA GROUP HOMES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TEAM OF LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN IN DISTRESS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds LENAWEE EMERGENCY AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORP ↗
  • Who funds LIVING HUNGRY INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Lenawee Community Fou…Douglas and Mary Kapn…Maurice&Dorothy Stubn…The S L Hickman Famil…Sage FoundationPremier Bank Foundati…Tlc Community Credit …Consumers Energy Foun…Bell TrustCommunity Foundation …Elizabeth Ruthruff Wi…The Murray Family Fou…
Lenawee Community FoundationMI38.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lenawee Community Foundation · Douglas and Mary Kapnick Family Foundation · Maurice&Dorothy Stubnitz Foundation · The S L Hickman Family Foundation · Sage Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · Tlc Community Credit Union · Consumers Energy Foundation · Bell Trust · Community Foundation of Broward Inc · Elizabeth Ruthruff Wilson Foundation · The Murray Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Farver Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Farver Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Kids in Distress Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Farver Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Farver Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 112 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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