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Frank Rewold & Son Foundation at a glance

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Frank Rewold & Son 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.

$4k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$100kAnimals$23kHuman Services$16kReligion$15kPhilanthropy$6kHealth$5kYouth Development$3kPublic Benefit$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$341k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUTTON FARM INC$1,000
EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE$1,000
PAINT A MIRACLE$500
ROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITIES$500
DETROIT ANIMAL WELFARE GROUP$500
THE RAINBOW CONNECTION$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 (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GURADIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $22k → 16%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%DUTTON FARM: $3k → 8%DUTTON FARM INC: $1k → 8%DUTTON FARM INC: $1k → 8%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.
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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$81k · 5 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +149% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
13

Total granted

$81k
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+149%
+2%

Still filing today

80%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPublic BenefitArts & CultureEducationPublic Safety & DisasterHealthOther
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

  • DF
    DUTTON FARM
    3× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +473%
  • WM
    WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +149%
  • PA
    PAINT A MIRACLE
    3× · 2019–2025 · $2k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • ND
    NOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • GA
    GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $22k · revenue +60%
  • LD
    LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLINDgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +29%
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
Macomb Residential Opportunities Inc

To serve individuals with disabilities by providing residential and personal support in a manner that promotes individual dignity, community integration and quality of life

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2
Rochester Rotary Club

We are a member-centered service organization enriching the lives of our city youth, people with disabilities and world neighbors.

Community Improvement
3
Michigan Heroes Museum

To teach & perpetuate the history of military accomplishments of citizens of the state of michigan and to maintain a museum for that purpose.

Arts & Culture
4
Michigan Knights of Columbus Charities
Community Improvement
5
Elder Law of Michigan

To advocate for, educate, and assist our target populations. our services address the needs of many different people, but we continue to target our services to older adults and persons with disabilities.

Human Services
6
Wings of Hope Hospice & Palliative Care Inc

Hospice care - wings of hope hospice and palliative care, inc. provides compassionate care in the later stages of life and support through the grief experience for individuals and families.

Human Services
7
Michigan Doodle Rescue Connect

Rescue dogs

Animals
8
Michigan Christian Home

The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…

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9
Michigan Fallen Heroes Memorial

To honor the lives and service of michigan's police officers and firefighters who died in the line of duty through the creation and development of the michigan fallen heroes memorial.

Arts & Culture
10
West Michigan Christian Foundation

None

Religion
11
Traverse City Rotary Club Wheelchairs for Polio Survivors Fd

To provide assistance, including wheelchairs, for the benefit of polio survivors who require medical,educational, or physical assistance to pursue more meaningful and healthy lives.

Philanthropy
12
Vegmichigan

Promoting the health, environmental and ethical benefits of a vegan diet

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rainbow Connection; the most unlike its peers is Edsel & Eleanor Ford House. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rochester Christian University: $55,000 · OtherRochester Christian UniversityNOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOLOAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $17,000 · OtherOAKLAND UNIVERSITYCLARKSTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherCLARKSTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $6,500 · OtherYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $5,825 · OtherKENSINGTON COMMUNITY CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherOLDER PERSON COMMISSION: $5,000 · Other+6 more: $5,000 · OtherGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL…LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLI…DUTTON FARM: $4,500 · Human ServicesDUTTON FARMWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,743 · EducationGATEHOUSE SOCIETY INC: $2,500 · Public BenefitPAINT A MIRACLE: $1,500 · Arts & CultureHUNDRED CLUB OF GENESEE SHIAWASSEE AND LAPEER COUNTIES: $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMotor City Veterans Hockey Association: $850 · Recreation & Sports
Other$134,325Human Services$36,500Education$2,743Public Benefit$2,500Arts & Culture$1,500Public Safety & Disaster$1,000Recreation & Sports$850

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRochester Christian University: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $22,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUTTON FARM: $4,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,743 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGATEHOUSE SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPAINT A MIRACLE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHUNDRED CLUB OF GENESEE SHIAWASSEE AND LAPEER COUNTIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMichigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER ROTARY CHARITIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Community Foundation …Community Foundation …Raymond James Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Community Foundation of Greater Rochester · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Frank Rewold & Son Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank Rewold & Son Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 22 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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