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Garber Automotive 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $267k
- $250k+2 grants · $535k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF HOYT PARK | $285,242 |
| GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CENTER | $250,000 |
| YMCA OF SAGINAW | $67,000 |
| RESCUE MINISTRIES OF MID-MICHIGAN | $50,000 |
| COVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SAGINAW CHILDREN'S ZOO | $50,000 |
| SAGINAW URBAN YOUTH HOCKEY PROGRAM | $50,000 |
| SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $41,667 |
| JAPANESE CULTURAL CENTER & TEA HOUSE | $25,000 |
| SAGINAW-SHIAWASSEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $15,000 |
| DOW TREASURE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- GMGREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $750k · revenue -13%
- FOFRIENDS OF HOYT PARK2× · 2023–2024 · $348k · revenue +175%
- SFSVSU FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $200k
Funded once
- SBSAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCYone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -5%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $20k
- CSCANCER SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $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.
To provide high quality health care to individuals and community groups in Saginaw, Bay, and other nearby counties. Services are provided without regard to race, beliefs or ability to pay.
Promotion of conventions & tourism in saginaw county
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.
The Betterment of the lives of stray, owned and abandoned companion animals in Saginaw County, MI. Our county has over 20,000 households living below the federal poverty guidelines that own at least one pet. We are their safety net. We…
Good samaritan is committed to ending poverty and homelessness, in partnership with our community, by leading the way in providing affordable housing solutions and supportive services.
Child and Family Service of Saginaw County is a social work agency dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in our community by fostering personal growth, emotional development, recovery from trauma, self- reliance, and healthy…
Seeking to put God's love into action. Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
To provide affordable housing for low-income families
The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Abuse & Neglect Council Great Lakes Bay Region and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOYT PARK ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW-SHIAWASSEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
- Who funds WELL OF SAGINAW ↗
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: Bierlein Companies Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Tri-Star Charitable Foundation · Morley Foundation · Yeo Family Foundation · Boutell Memorial Fund · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Consumers Energy 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 Garber Automotive 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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