· Private foundation
George R & Elise M Fink 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $82,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $119,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $37,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society | $15,000 |
| Center for Successful Aging | $15,000 |
| Cooper Riis Healing Community | $10,000 |
| Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society | $10,000 |
| Santa Barbara Rescue Mission | $6,000 |
| Family Therapy Institute | $5,000 |
| Rubicon Theatre Company | $4,000 |
| Noah's Project | $4,000 |
| Family Center | $3,000 |
| Grosse Pointe Library Foundation | $2,500 |
| Full Circle Foundation | $2,000 |
| Junior League of Detroit | $1,500 |
| Capitol Area Food Bank | $1,000 |
| Sugar Bowl Ski Team | $1,000 |
| Belvedere Tiburon Library Foundation | $500 |
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.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- GPGROSSE POINTE ANIMAL ADOPTION SOCIETY2× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +709%
- MMMARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL2× · 2020–2022 · $11k · revenue +34%
MERCY EDUCATION PROJECT2× · 2020–2022 · $11k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- GGPAASone grant, 2020 · $15k
- CHCovenant Houseone grant, 2020 · $10k
- NPNOAH PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · 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.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Friends of michigan animals rescue's mission is to protect animals and residents by promoting a safe and healthy environment for all.
To provide 24-hour residential substance abuse treatment for adult homeless men in a professional, compassionate, and therapeutic environment conducive to reducing drug and alcohol addiction and promoting their return to health,…
The santa barbara public library foundation supports the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library through public-private partnerships.
To provide social service assistance to the elderly and disabled in santa barbara, california.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
To improve the economic health and quality of life in the monterey bay region.
The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
To provide affordable housing to low-income households in the greater san francisco bay area.
Senior Access's mission is to help Marin's older and disabled adults remain independent and part of the community for as long as possible.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Junior League of Detroit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 35 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 CENTER FOR SUCCESSFUL AGING ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE ANIMAL ADOPTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MERCY EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Junior League of Detroit ↗
- Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NOAH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SIERRA AVALANCHE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Belvedere Tiburon Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION ↗
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 · Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.
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