· Private foundation
Frederick a Vollbrecht 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC ART | $30,000 |
| VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY | $30,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TROY | $10,000 |
| THE RAINBOW CONNECTION | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN ARTS ACCESS | $10,000 |
| MARY & CHARLES PARKHILL FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–17, $10k) 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 +67% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TROY9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +67%
- TRTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION6× · 2019–2025 · $65k · revenue +19%
ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS2× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +150%
Funded once
VARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN DBA VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITYone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -27%- FCFAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAone grant, 2018 · $15k
- FCFAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +86%
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.
Provides work activity for the mentally and physically disabled.
To serve individuals with disabilities by providing residential and personal support in a manner that promotes individual dignity, community integration and quality of life
Arc michigan empowers local chapters to assure that citizens with disabilites and their families participate fully in and contribute to the life of their community.
The special olympics movement uses sport as a vehicle for acceptance, respect, inclusion, dignity, and joy. we provide year-round sports training and competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Empower people with developmental disabilities in mid-michigan to participate in and be fully included in the community.
To assist people with disabilities to live, work and socialize within a fully accessible community.
The mission of arc of wabash county, inc. is to challenge, empower, and support individuals with disabilities to reach their highest level of independence. arc of wabash is dedicated to: 1) preserve, protect, and promote the dignity of…
To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.
Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
We empower central texans with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families through compassionate case management and innovative programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alternatives for Girls and the most unlike its peers is Michigan Arts Access. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 19 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 Walsh College of Accountancy & Business Administration ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TROY ↗
- Who funds THE RAINBOW CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds VARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN DBA VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds FAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ARTS ACCESS ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS REHABILITATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
- Who funds RIVER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Frederick a Vollbrecht 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.