· Private foundation
Frankenmuth Insurance Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k89 grants · $209k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SAGINAW COUNTY | $30,000 |
| HARVEST HOPE | $15,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SAGINAW COUNTY | $10,000 |
| TRUSTED CHOICE RELIEF FUND (FORTIFIED) | $10,000 |
| VINA DENTAL CENTER | $5,406 |
| NORTHEASTERN MICHIGAN CPCU SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| TENNESSEE OUT-REACH CENTER FOR HOMELESS | $5,000 |
| LOVE FOR A CHILD | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN INC | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS | $5,000 |
| FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| WELLSPRING LUTHERAN SERVICES | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% 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.
60 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 67 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $242k 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
- NMNAMIC MUTUAL INSURANCE FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +123%
- URUNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC4× · 2020–2023 · $14k · revenue +24%
Feeding America3× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- GSGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $50k
- OCOLIVET COLLEGE - ALPHA ALPHA CHAPTERone grant, 2020 · $33k
- SVSAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +40%
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 Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
Provide services in response to individual need
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
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…
Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.
Decatur cooperative ministry helps families facing homelessness settle into safe, stable homes and build healthy lives filled with peace, hope and opportunity.
To grow hope in our region by creating pathways to nutritious food.
Choices of manistee county, inc. provides emergency shelter, crisis intervention, counseling, advocacy, and education to survivors of domestic violence in manistee county, empowering survivors to achieve safety and self-determination.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westerville Area Resource Ministry and the most unlike its peers is Del and Jean Doyle Family Foundation. 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 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
166 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. 166 of the 241 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF SAGINAW COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Georgia State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FILMNORTH ↗
- Who funds NAMIC MUTUAL INSURANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds YPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Child & Family Service of Saginaw ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FEED THE KIDS COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS COUNSELING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVET COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan ↗
- Who funds HOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY 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: Consumers Energy Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Gougeon Employees Foundation · Boutell Memorial Fund
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 Frankenmuth Insurance 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.
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Autism Society of America Inc — 8% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 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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