· Private foundation
Fibre Converters Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| ST JOSEPH COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION | $50,000 |
| SUMMIT MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $20,000 |
| BAIR LAKE BIBLE CAMP | $13,347 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH COUNTY UNITED WAY | $6,068 |
| PREGNANCY HELPLINE OF THREE RIVERS | $5,500 |
| FOOD BANK OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN | $3,600 |
| COMSTOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| CARNEGIE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $2,000 |
| CONSTANTINE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $1,000 |
| THREE RIVERS HEALTH AUXILIARY LIGHTS OF LOVE PROG | $1,000 |
| HOPE UNITED | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Fibre Converters Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 41% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 35% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +58% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- ORORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +58%
- SMSUMMIT MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +94%
- BLBAIR LAKE BIBLE CAMP9× · 2017–2025 · $373k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- TTTHS Tiger Band Booster Clubgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +43%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SJSt Joseph County Parks and Recone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
To teach & perpetuate the history of military accomplishments of citizens of the state of michigan and to maintain a museum for that purpose.
Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…
See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…
Preserving, teaching and presenting history through inspiring museum exhibits, programs and archival materials.
Providing solutions for financial success.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
To preserve and promote maritime history
We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
To honor and memorialize those veterans who provided ground support and flew the b-17 in the 390th bombardment group of the 8th air force during wwii, to serve as a window on the air war over europe by the 390th and related bomb groups in…
We, advantage health/saint mary's medical group and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.advantage health/saint mary's medical group…
Mission statement: an inclusive, catholic, and diocesan community of learners, st. ambrose university empowers all ambrosians to act courageously, to seek wisdom through faith and reason, to work for justice, and to lead lives of service.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bair Lake Bible Camp and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 40 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 ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BAIR LAKE BIBLE CAMP ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY HELPLINE OF THREE RIVERS ↗
- Who funds TALONS OUT HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THS Tiger Band Booster Club ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY HELPLINE ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE CENTER COUNCIL FOR THE ART ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS FOOD SITE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE UNITED INC ↗
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.
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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 Fibre Converters Foundation Inc 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.
- Oral Roberts University — 0% of income from government
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.
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