· Public charity
Gift of Life Foundation
The foundation is dedicated to promoting and supporting michigan's donation and transplant community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $189,641 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $366,685 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $177,044 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $139k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIFT OF LIFE MICHIGAN | $138,500 |
| JACKSON COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER | $11,654 |
| EVERSIGHT MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| TRANSPLANT GAMES OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION | $8,139 |
| DONATE LIFE COALITION OF MICHIGAN | $6,000 |
| LENAWEE COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER | $5,348 |
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against -25% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- OPORGAN PROCUREMENT AGENCY OF MICHIGAN4× · 2020–2023 · $300k · revenue +69%
- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE4× · 2017–2020 · $46k · revenue +45%
- NKNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- COCOUNTY OF JACKSON MICHIGAN DEPT ON AGINGone grant, 2023 · $12k
- TLTRANSPLANT LIFE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -25%
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.
Saving lives by honoring the gift of organ and tissue donation with dignity and compassion.
As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…
The mission of lifegift is to provide community benefit by ethically, effectively and efficiently recovering appropriately transplantable organs and tissue to give the gift of life. lifegift also provides public and professional education…
To honor donors and save lives through organ and tissue donation. (expanded mission on schedule o)
To save and enhance the lives of as many people as possible through organ and tissue donation.
The foundation is dedicated to promoting and supporting michigan's donation and transplant community.
As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
We provide innovative human biologic solutions that maximize the gift of donation.
As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…
AAKP is dedicated to improving the lives and long-term outcome of kidney patients. Cont on Sch O.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Organ Procurement Agency of Michigan and the most unlike its peers is National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 ORGAN PROCUREMENT AGENCY OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN COALITION ON DONATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Eversight ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSPLANT LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Gift of Life 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.