· Private foundation
Frank N Andersen Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| GREAT LAKES BAY HEALTH CENTERS | $25,000 |
| SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| ANDERSEN ENRICHMENT CENTER | $25,000 |
| SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DELTA COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| TEMPLE ARTS | $15,000 |
| SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HIDDEN HARVEST | $15,000 |
| RESCUE MINISTRIES OF MIDMICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| MAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS | $10,000 |
| SAGINAW COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE | $10,000 |
| MIDMICH ADULT TEEN CHALLENGE | $10,000 |
| SAGINAW HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +9% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 10 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
- TTEMPLEARTS5× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +385%
- HHHIDDEN HARVEST6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +58%
- MCMAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS4× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF BAY CITY STATE PARKSone grant, 2021 · $30k
- FOFRIENDS OF HOYT PARKgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +175% · 33% of their budget
- FWFIRST WARD COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $15k
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 be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
The historical society of saginaw county is committed to serve the community by telling the continuing story of the people of the saginaw region through exploration, preservation and presentation of their historical and cultural heritage.
Support library activities through materials and services
To address and improve food equity by providing access to healthy foods and nutritional resources to individuals and communities.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Promotion of conventions & tourism in saginaw county
The mission of the partnership is driving workforce solutions through community partnership. the partnership plans to accomplish its mission by facilitating activities for career preparation, school-to-work and school improvement.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
To facilitate connecting the Leelanau county community of seniors with services and activities that promote a healthy independent and fulfilled lifestyle while aging.
The mission of harm reduction is to reduce substance abuse and related activities in a respectful manner in collaboration with the user
The Historical Society of Michigan will foster in citizens a deeper understanding of and appreciation for all Michigan history through programs and publications; preserve and promote Michigan history through conferences, publications,…
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saginaw County Community Action Committee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Hoyt Park. 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 44 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 81 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 Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEMPLEARTS ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds East Side Soup Kitchen ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOYT PARK ↗
- Who funds MAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Bay Health Centers ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds READ Association of Saginaw County ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC ↗
- Who funds Saginaw S T E M ↗
- Who funds Saginaw County Youth Protection Council ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW AREA FIREWORKS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW FUTURE 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.
Open a dossier: Saginaw Community Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Morley Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation · Boutell Memorial Fund · Harvey Memorial 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 Frank N Andersen 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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