· Private foundation
Gougeon Employees Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
64% of Gougeon Employees Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Bay Area Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 35 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Gougeon Employees Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 34 organizations, $120k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BRIANS HOUSE COMMUNITY GROUP | $5,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| SAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM | $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 |
| GREAT LAKES BAY HEALTH CENTERS | $2,000 |
| MID MICHIGAN CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
74 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF BAY COUNTY6× · 2020–2025 · $77k · revenue +121%
- RMRescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +25%
- DCDELTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION YOUTHone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
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.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
To make advanced life support service available to approximately 10,500 residents of five michigan townships and one city.
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.
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…
Outpatient rehabilitation
Identifying, promoting, and creating awareness for projects to improve the quality of life for citizens of the great lakes bay area.
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…
To promote bicycling and the rights of bicyclists on the roadways in michigan.
Our goal is to encourage full-citizenship and personal growth for all people, especially those with disabilities who live in the nine county area that comprises the eastern shore of maryland.
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.
How this is measured
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 155 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BAY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan ↗
- Who funds ADOPTION OPTION INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAY VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIAN'S HOUSE COMMUNITY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER JORDAN INC ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY SERVICES RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW BAY COMMUNITY SAILING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF BAY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds East Side Soup Kitchen ↗
- Who funds FISH TALES ↗
- Who funds MID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW VALLEY NAVAL SHIP MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF BAY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY - ST PAUL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NATE AND MARY IDA DOAN SANTA HOUSE ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gougeon Employees Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gougeon Employees Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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