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Fettig Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SW$15,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN$15,000
KIDDO$15,000
BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$12,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
TIPTON COUNTY 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

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 (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 its 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
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

MN
MI
MA
IN
CA
CO
TN
GA
TX
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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.…

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berrien Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
17/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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.

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

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 Fettig Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fettig Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
    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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 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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