· Public charity
Food Gatherers
Our mission is to alleviate hunger and eliminate its root causes in washtenaw county, michigan.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $23,550 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,565,025 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,541,475 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AID IN MILAN | $23,550 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
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 +132% since the first grant, against +113% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- AIAID IN MILAN9× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +252% · 26% of their budget
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +496%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +333%
Funded once
- BGBEAUTIFUL GATE CHURCH3× · 2020–2023 · $16k
- SCSOS COMMUNITY SERVICESgraduated9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +230%
- NHNORTHFIELDS HUMAN SERVICES INC WHITMORE LAKE AREA HUMAN SERVICESgraduated9× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +715%
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.
Catholic human services inc. enhances the lives of those we serve by providing hope-filled social, emotional and spiritual support to all people.
Community & home supports, inc. was founded to help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we strive to fulfill our purpose by developing, leading, and participating in collaborative and innovative efforts that support…
Creating healthy communities - together
Child and Family Service of Saginaw County is a social work agency dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in our community by fostering personal growth, emotional development, recovery from trauma, self- reliance, and healthy…
Our mission is to provide persons with disabilities living options, life choices and control of their future. Guided by the commitment to focus on individual choice, CRC will provide services that are person-centered and assure customer…
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
Advocate for people in recovery & provides holistic options for those recovering from substance use disorder, codependency & trauma.
To improve the health of children and adults, particularly vulnerable populations, through education and connections to health care and support services.
To provide a range of high-quality support services to people in need of residential care, in-home assistance or support. Providing these services in a manner that respects self-direction and dignity of individuals.
Working in the spirit of Gods universal love, our mission is to nurture, stabilize and strengthen the diverse families of the Upper Peninsula Community by providing mental health and addiction counseling services, child welfare services,…
To provide housing and case management services for the homeless and mentally ill within the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washtenaw Pace Inc and the most unlike its peers is Islamic Association of Ypsilanti Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
42 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.
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 AID IN MILAN ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County ↗
- Who funds YPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELDS HUMAN SERVICES INC WHITMORE LAKE AREA HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SALINE AREA SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Aileen Barnett Charitable Tr FBO Salvation Army ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Family Life Centers Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE FAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OZONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AVALON NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Trinity Health - Michigan · Thrift Shop Association of Ann Arbor · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Edward F Redies Foundation Inc · The Buhr Foundation · Duffy Foundation · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · Dte Energy 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 Food Gatherers 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.
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.