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George Fund at a glance

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George Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$28k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$50kHousing & Shelter$45kHuman Services$41kHealth$34kPhilanthropy$30kEducation$18kInternational$14kYouth Development$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$14,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$923k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$14,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$14,000
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 (FY20–22, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WINGS OF MERCY: $5k → 8%MITTENS FOR DETROIT: $500 → 8%WINGS OF MERCY: $5k → 8%MITTENS FOR DETROIT: $500 → 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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$160k · 8 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$160k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+16%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CR
    CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +35%
  • CC
    CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +59%
  • GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $11k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • SJ
    ST JOHN PROVIDENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue -36%
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
Mercy Health Partners

We, mercy health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health partners is a member of mercy health and trinity health.

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2
Organ Procurement Agency of Michigan

We honor life through donation.

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3
Trinity Health - Michigan

We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.

Health
4
Misericordia Home

The mission of misericordia home is to support children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who choose our community by providing the highest quality residential, training, and employment services. we provide the…

Human Services
5
The Cardiac Institute

Our mission is to help people to live longer, healthier lives with dignity, and to use all of our resources to give them everything they expect and deserve in comprehensive cardiovascular care for their families and themselves.

Health
6
Mymichigan Medical Center Saginaw Founda

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
7
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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8
Mercy Harvard Hospital Inc

The mission of mercy harvard hospital, inc. (mhh) is "exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better." the foundation of this mission is based on a vision of quality: excellence in patient care; service:…

Health
9
Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries
Health
10
Trinity Health Grand Haven Hospital

We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…

Health
11
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Omaha Inc

In response to god's call to love our neighbor, catholic charities of the archdiocese of omaha enables the works of mercy to be received and lived.

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12
Advantage Healthsaint Mary's Medical Group

We, advantage health/saint mary's medical group and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.advantage health/saint mary's medical group…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grace Centers of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 21 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE: $50,000 · OtherCONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCECASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $45,000 · OtherCASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INCLAFF PATHWAY FUND AND COMMUNITY: $20,000 · OtherLAFF PATHWAY FUND AND COMMUNITYSALVATION ARMY: $15,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYTHE SALVATION ARMY: $14,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $11,200 · OtherGRACE CENTERS OF HOPESATURDAY SCHOLAR INC: $10,000 · OtherST JOHN PROVIDENCE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Other+4 more: $15,000 · Other+4 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $14,000 · ReligionMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 · HealthMARINERS INN: $5,000 · HealthWINGS OF MERCY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMITTENS FOR DETROIT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesHENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyOTSEGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyADRIAN COLLEGE: $5,000 · Education
Other$199,700Religion$14,000Health$12,000Human Services$11,000Philanthropy$10,000Education$5,000

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 budgetCONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $11,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS OF MERCY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADRIAN COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINERS INN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOTSEGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDLINGS BRAILLE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMITTENS FOR DETROIT INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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 …DTE Energy FoundationAa Van Elslander Foun…Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Aa Van Elslander Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 George Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Fund. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to George Fund?

    Find your warmest path to George Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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