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Feldpausch Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$165k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$214kHuman Services$115kFood & Nutrition$107kPhilanthropy$97kEducation$96kYouth Development$89kArts & Culture$66kHousing & Shelter$46kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BINDER PARK ZOO$20,000
BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
CHARITABLE UNION$10,000
UNITED WAY OF BATTLE CREEK & KALAMAZOO REGION$10,000
SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK$10,000
SERENITY VILLAGE OF BARRY COUNTY$10,000
GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN$7,500
OTSEGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS$6,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$5,000
HAND2HAND$5,000
ST ROSE SCHOOL$5,000
SAFE PLACE$5,000
PENNFIELD SCHOOLS$5,000
ST PATRICK SCHOOL$5,000
BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GREEN GABLE HAVEN: $13k → 9%CHARITABLE UNION: $10k → 14%GREEN GABLE HAVEN: $7k → 9%GREEN GABLE HAVEN: $5k → 9%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA: $10k → 12%CHARITABLE UNION: $3k → 14%GREEN GABLE HAVEN: $5k → 9%GREEN GABLE HAVEN: $2k → 9%CHARITABLE UNION: $2k → 14%CHARITABLE UNION: $2k → 14%CHARITABLE UNION: $2k → 14%CHARITABLE UNION: $2k → 14%CENTRICA CARE NAVIGATORS: $2k → 12%CENTRICA CARE NAVIGATORS: $2k → 12%CENTRICA CARE NAVIGATORS: $2k → 12%CENTRICA CARE NAVIGATORS: $2k → 12%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $10k → 14%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $10k → 14%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $5k → 14%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$611k · 27 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
15

Total granted

$611k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+41%

Still filing today

63%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN
    5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +92%
  • H
    HAND2HAND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +75%
  • GG
    GREEN GABLES HAVEN
    5× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • BC
    BARRY COUNTY UNITED WAYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +61%
  • Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Centergraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +41%
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
Berrien County Cancer Services Inc

To provide compassionate in-home skilled nursing care and supportive resources for those affected by cancer and related illnesses in southwest michigan.

Health
2
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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3
United Way of Southwest Michigan

United way of southwest michigan works in berrien, cass, and van buren counties to sustain a united community where everyone contributes, belongs, and thrives.

Philanthropy
4
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Southwest Michigan

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us the most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.

Youth Development
5
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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6
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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7
Sheboygan County Food Bank Inc

Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
8
Bronson Battle Creek Hospital

Together, we advance the health of our communities.

Health
9
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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10
Business Leaders for 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.…

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11
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
12
Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce

To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barry Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Starr Commonwealth. 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

30 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. 30 of the 51 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
18/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BATTLE CREEK HOMELESS SHELTER INC: $45,500 · OtherBATTLE CREEK HOMELESS SHELTER INCALBION HEALTH CARE: $45,000 · OtherALBION HEALTH CAREKIDS N STUFF MUSEUM: $32,000 · OtherKIDS N STUFF MUSEUMBATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - THE ELEMENTARY ENRICHMENT COMM PROJECT: $30,500 · OtherBATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - THE ELEMEN…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $30,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK: $24,000 · OtherSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANKOTSEGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $22,000 · OtherOTSEGO PUBLIC SCHOOLSST ROSE SCHOOL: $19,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $15,000 · OtherBinder Park Zoological Society Inc: $20,000 · OtherBinder Park Zoological Society Inc+19 more: $77,550 · Other+19 moreBronson Health Foundation: $134,750 · HealthBronson Health Found…SERENITY VILLAGE OF BARRY COUNTY: $20,000 · HealthSERENITY VILLAGE OF …+1 more: $2,400 · HealthGREEN GABLES HAVEN: $32,000 · Human ServicesGREEN GABLES HA…SAFE PLACE: $27,000 · Human ServicesSAFE PLACESTARR COMMONWEALTH: $25,000 · Human ServicesSTARR COMMONWEA…CHARITABLE UNION: $20,500 · Human ServicesCHARITABLE UNIO…Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center: $10,000 · Human ServicesSherman Lake YM…Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan: $6,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…BARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $31,500 · PhilanthropyBARRY COMMUN…BARRY COUNTY UNITED WAY: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBARRY COUNTY…BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHAND2HAND: $35,000 · Food & NutritionHAND2HANDKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $31,500 · Food & NutritionKIDS' FOOD…KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $8,500 · Food & NutritionKALAMAZOO …SPROUT URBAN FARMS INC: $7,500 · Food & NutritionSPROUT URB…GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN: $21,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC: $11,500 · Youth DevelopmentBrass Band of Battle Creek: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC CENTER OF SOUTH CENTRAL MI: $3,000 · Arts & CultureART CENTER OF BATTLE CREEK: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$360,550Health$157,150Human Services$120,500Philanthropy$96,500Food & Nutrition$82,500Youth Development$33,000Arts & Culture$29,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBronson Health Foundation: $134,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBATTLE CREEK HOMELESS SHELTER INC: $45,500 over 4y, 17% of budgetHAND2HAND: $35,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGREEN GABLES HAVEN: $32,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetBARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $31,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $31,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE PLACE: $27,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSTARR COMMONWEALTH: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBrass Band of Battle Creek: $25,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN: $21,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITABLE UNION: $20,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBinder Park Zoological Society Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSERENITY VILLAGE OF BARRY COUNTY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBARRY COUNTY UNITED WAY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPROUT URBAN FARMS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHospice Care of Southwest Michigan: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJENISON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC CENTER OF SOUTH CENTRAL MI: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGRACE HEALTH INC: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART CENTER OF BATTLE CREEK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF CALHOUN COUNTY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Bronson Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds BATTLE CREEK HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HAND2HAND ↗
  • Who funds GREEN GABLES HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds BARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE PLACE ↗
  • Who funds STARR COMMONWEALTH ↗
  • Who funds Brass Band of Battle Creek ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds CHARITABLE UNION ↗
  • Who funds Binder Park Zoological Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds SERENITY VILLAGE OF BARRY COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds BARRY COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds SPROUT URBAN FARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan ↗
  • Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JENISON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗

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.

WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek Communit…United Way of South C…Miller FoundationConsumers Energy Foun…John E Fetzer Institu…Tyler-Little Family F…Kalamazoo Community F…Preston S and Barbara…Dorothy U Dalton Foun…Harold and Grace Upjo…Suzanne Upjohn Delano…
WK Kellogg FoundationMI51.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: WK Kellogg Foundation · Battle Creek Community Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Miller Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish 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 Feldpausch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Feldpausch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Feldpausch Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Feldpausch 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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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