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Gougeon Employees 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k68 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF BAY COUNTY | $13,000 |
| BAY VETERANS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY-FOOD PANT | $7,000 |
| DELTA COLLEGE | $5,150 |
| SAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| BRIANS HOUSE COMMUNITY GROUP | $5,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| BAY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDA | $3,000 |
| HIDDEN HARVEST | $2,500 |
| SVSU FOUNDATION-SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWME | $2,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF BAY COUNTY | $2,100 |
| BAY AREA WOMENS CENTER | $2,000 |
| GREAT LAKES BAY HEALTH CENTERS | $2,000 |
| MID MICHIGAN CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
66 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 22 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, 81% 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF BAY COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +121%
- DCDELTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +143%
- RMRescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SBSAVE BRIANS HOUSE COMMUNITY GROUPone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Dedicated to facilitating economic development strategies that promote and secure opportunities for business retention, growth, and the attraction of new industries that create quality jobs for community residents.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
To make advanced life support service available to approximately 10,500 residents of five michigan townships and one city.
To promote bicycling and the rights of bicyclists on the roadways in michigan.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
Identifying, promoting, and creating awareness for projects to improve the quality of life for citizens of the great lakes bay area.
The south bay artist collective's mission as a 501(c)3 non-profit is to support and grow the local visual arts community through creating a destination for art and creativity, while teaching and inspiring youth. our purpose is to support…
To inspire an environmentally conscious culture in Northern Michigan and beyond by educating people on the long-term value of recycling and making recycling and green choices simple and accessible to individuals and organizations across…
The ywca great lakes bay region is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Women's Center and the most unlike its peers is Special Needs Vision Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
47 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. 47 of the 143 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 UNITED WAY OF BAY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DELTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan ↗
- Who funds BRIAN'S HOUSE COMMUNITY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds BAY VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds RIVER JORDAN INC ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC ↗
- Who funds MID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF BAY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds East Side Soup Kitchen ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY SERVICES RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST MARY - ST PAUL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF BAY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NATE AND MARY IDA DOAN SANTA HOUSE ↗
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: Bay Area Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Morley Foundation · Midland Area Community Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · The Kantzler Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Frankenmuth Insurance 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 Gougeon Employees 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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