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Foren Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $259k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARINE MAMMAL CENTER | $65,000 |
| HOPE ON THE BEACH | $45,000 |
| ELEPHANT SANCTUARY OF TENNESSEE | $28,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN | $25,000 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| MACOMB MACOMB COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HONORING THE SACRIFICE | $24,000 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| GENESEE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $11,800 |
| EWHA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM | $10,000 |
| PATHWAYS INC | $10,000 |
| WIGS FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
| YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $8,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
44 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- TMTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER7× · 2018–2024 · $450k · revenue +138%
- MCMACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $167k · revenue +93%
- THTHE HONORING THE SACRIFICE FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $136k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- CCCLASSICAL CHRISTIAN EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2021 · $26k
- UOUniversity of Michigangraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +195%
- ASAUTISM SUPPORT GROUP OF GENESSEE COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $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 maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
To provide financial assistance to individuals and institutions for educational and scientific purposes in order to advance science to benefit the health and welfare of animals.
Since 1951, the animal welfare institute has been dedicated to alleviating animal suffering caused by people. we seek to improve the welfare of animals everywhere: in agriculture, in commerce, in our homes and communities, in research, and…
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The Association is an independent worldwide organization that nurtures lifelong relationships with and among current and future Michigan alumni. As a committed partner of the University the Association offers programs of relevance and…
The mission of the michigan animal rescue league is to provide the highest quality of life to dogs and cats through rescue, medical care, socialization and behavioral support, short- and long-term sanctuary, adoption, and community…
Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…
Friends of the detroit animal care and control is committed to ensuring equal access to companion animals for those of all socioeconomic levels and raising the care for animals living in detroit.
To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Citywide Mentoring. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 65 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 THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HONORING THE SACRIFICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GENESEE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Garretts Place Life Skills Center for Autism ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds Tail Waggers 1990 ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE RE-INSITUTIONALIZAT ↗
- Who funds THE LINK OF CULLMAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR EWHA WOMANS UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Brooklyn Poets Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds EWHA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Theta Tau Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Smokey Acres ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Sleeping Bear Dunes ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
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: The Hough Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Foren 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.
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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