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Fettig Family 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Community Improvement$1.2MEducation$373kPhilanthropy$282kRecreation & Sports$278kHousing & Shelter$208kYouth Development$137kHealth$133kFood & Nutrition$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$6,400
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNERSTONE ALLIANCE$1,135,000
WHIRLPOOL COLLECTIVE IMPACT FUND$42,040
ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$21,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$20,000
KIDDO$15,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN$15,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SW$15,000
BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$12,000
TIPTON COUNTY FOUNDATION$10,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
FIRST TEE BENTON HARBOR$6,400
FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN$4,000
THE ALEX MANDARINO FOUNDATION$3,000
MARIN COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOC$2,700
GIRLS ON THE RUN SW MICHIGAN$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 10%WELL OF GRACE MINISTRIES: $500 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
MI
MA
IN
CA
CO
TN
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 23 repeat orgs$285k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
11

Total granted

$2.1M
$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
0%

Still filing today

74%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

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

  • CA
    CORNERSTONE ALLIANCE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +93%
  • Indiana University Foundation
    5× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +65%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOOSIERS FOR GOOD INC
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue -81%
  • DF
    DIAMANTE FIRST TEE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -23%
  • BG
    BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SW MICHI
    one grant, 2023 · $15k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
2
Michigan Credit Union Foundation

Cooperatively empowering credit unions to increase financial well-being by supporting community enrichment, financial education, and credit union development initiatives

Public Benefit
3
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
4
Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc

Mission statement: to gather, grow, and give endowed charitable financial resources to build stronger, more vibrant communities now and into the future.value statement:we are committed to managing our clients' philanthropic endowments in…

Philanthropy
5
West Bend Community Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
6
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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7
Michigan Education Excellence Foundation

Dedicated to supporting innovative, transformative learning for all students in michigan. the foundation collects, invests, and distributes funds to board designated initiatives, like the detroit promise, as part of our mission to improve…

Education
8
Charlevoix County Community Foundation

Awarding grants and scholarships.

Philanthropy
9
Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation

To improve the quality of life for all people in emmet county by connecting donors with community needs, building a permanent source of charitable funds, addressing a broad range of community issues through grantmaking, and championing…

Philanthropy
10
Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation

The children's foundation is a catalyst for change, partnering with the community to advance solutions and discoveries that improve the mental and physical health of children in michigan

Health
11
Community Financial Credit Union

Community financial credit union is a state chartered, not-for-profit, full-service financial institution owned and governed by its membership. at community financial, we are committed to our members and our communities,for over 70 years.…

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12
Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc

To improve the quality of life for the citizens of St. Joseph County and their succeeding generations.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berrien Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Lef Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%7%<5yr14%7%5–10yr17%21%10–20yr14%21%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr22%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr17%5%10–20yr14%8%20–35yr13%67%35–55yr22%18%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
12%
1,525/12,821

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.

04the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
17/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CORNERSTONE ALLIANCE — $1,165,500 · Community ImprovementCORNERSTONE ALLIANCEWHIRLPOOL COLLECTIVE IMPACT FUND — $208,240 · OtherWHIRLPOOL COLLECTIVE IMPACT FU…HOOSIERS FOR GOOD INC — $200,000 · OtherHOOSIERS FOR GOOD INCST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $88,000 · OtherST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUND…KIDDO — $45,000 · OtherKIDDOTIPTON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC — $36,000 · OtherST JOSEPH MEN'S SOCCER BOOSTERS — $33,500 · OtherFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN — $25,400 · Other+19 more — $90,591 · Other+19 moreVanderbilt University — $100,000 · EducationVanderbilt …Beechwood Educational Foundation Inc — $89,621 · EducationBeechwood E…Indiana University Foundation — $65,000 · EducationIndiana Uni…POW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · EducationPOW EDUCATI…BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $156,000 · PhilanthropyBERRIEN CO…UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $87,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…+2 more — $1,800 · PhilanthropyMAYO CLINIC — $100,000 · HealthTHE ALEX MANDARINO FOUNDATION — $33,150 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE — $4,500 · Youth Development+1 more — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE FIRST TEE OF BENTON HARBOR INC — $28,000 · Recreation & SportsDIAMANTE FIRST TEE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS — $15,000 · Recreation & Sports
Community Improvement$1,165,500Other$726,731Education$269,621Philanthropy$245,300Health$133,150Youth Development$82,000Recreation & Sports$68,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCORNERSTONE ALLIANCE — $1,165,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHOOSIERS FOR GOOD INC — $200,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $156,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetVanderbilt University — $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeechwood Educational Foundation Inc — $89,621 over 4y, 27% of budgetST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $88,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $87,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTIPTON COUNTY FOUNDATION INC — $36,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ALEX MANDARINO FOUNDATION — $33,150 over 5y, 22% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF BENTON HARBOR INC — $28,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN — $25,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDIAMANTE FIRST TEE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF BERRIEN COUNTY TRAILS — $15,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPOW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetCURIOUS KIDS MUSEUM — $13,975 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMOSAIC CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSIC WORKSHOP — $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetST JOSEPH JUNIOR FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS OF HOPE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFriends of Berrien County Animal Services — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLAKESHORE EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION — $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEF FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWell of Grace Ministries Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Soup Kitchen Inc — $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Berrien Community Fou…The Marzke Family Fou…The Covia FoundationDegroot Family Founda…Hanson Family Foundat…Whirlpool FoundationBill Nygren Foundation1st Source Bank Found…American Electric Pow…Harbor Shores Public …Culture Need & Herita…The McLoughlin Family…
Berrien Community Foundation IncMI42.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · The Marzke Family Foundation · The Covia Foundation · Degroot Family Foundation · Hanson Family Foundation · Whirlpool Foundation · Bill Nygren Foundation · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · American Electric Power Foundation · Harbor Shores Public Asset Fund Inc · Culture Need & Heritage Foundation · The McLoughlin 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 Fettig Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fettig Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fettig Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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