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Graff Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SLOAN MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY | $75,000 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $55,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT | $55,000 |
| OUTREACH EAST | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| IRELAND'S DREAM | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| FAMILY AND CHILDREN TOGETHER (FACT) | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE | $10,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF MID MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| BERSTON NEXT 100 CAMPAIGN | $10,000 |
| GENESEE COUNTY PARKS AND REC | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT5× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +65%- OEOUTREACH EAST3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +8%
- YLYOUNG LIFE2× · 2019–2021 · $10k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF FLINTone grant, 2024 · $50k
- FPFlint Public Libraryone grant, 2021 · $30k
- YLYOUNG LIFE OF GENESEE COUNTYone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
To inspire a love for learning in science, technology, engineering, math, and art, and awaken imagination through hands-on play.
Alleviate and prevent hunger amongst Michigan residents.
To promote the common economic interests of all the commercial enterprises in the Genesee County, Michigan community. The Organization strives to enhance the business climate in the area and advocates for public policy that supports…
Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.
Improve the health of genesee county residents. improve the quality and cost effectiveness of the health care system in our community.
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.
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
We gather and distribute food to relieve hunger and increase food security in west michigan and the upper peninsula. contributions and net assets consist primarily of donated food for distribution.
The Genesee Area Focus Fund's purpose is to receive and administer funds dedicated to improving the economy and quality of life of the people of Genesee County, Michigan. The Focus Fund provides support to publicly supported organizations…
The flint center for educational excellence is building an educational ecosystem that works for all flint kids by providing programs. research, and advocacy that ensure flint kids, their families, schools, and communities thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Flint and the most unlike its peers is Genesee County Educational Foundation. 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 31 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 Flint Cultural Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Sloan Museum and the Longway Planetarium ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Music ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH EAST ↗
- Who funds IRELANDS DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Greater Flint ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE AND GENESEE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF MID MICHIG ↗
- Who funds Northwood University ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds GENESEE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
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: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Whiting Foundation · Nartel Family Foundation · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · The Serra Foundation · Ruth Mott Foundation · Merkley Charitable Trust · The Williamson Foundation Inc · Burroughs Memorial Trust · Tummala Charitable 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 Graff Family 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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