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· Private foundation
GRAFF FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$250k
Granted FY2024
9
Grants
1
Communities
$70k
Largest
01What you fund
0168% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Arts & Culture$570kHuman Services$85kYouth Development$61kPhilanthropy$55kEducation$10kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$374k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
outreachgreater flint
2024
greater flint
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 9 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
- FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC$70,000
- SLOAN MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY$50,000
- FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF FLINT$50,000
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT$20,000
- OUTREACH EAST$15,000
- BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT$15,000
- YOUNG LIFE OF GENESEE COUNTY$10,000
- YMCA OF GREATER FLINT$10,000
- IRELAND'S DREAM$10,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$955k · 11 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
10
Total granted
$955k
$65k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+10%
+30%
Still filing today
64%
40%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ALFRED P SLOAN MUSEUM2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +45%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT5× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +93%- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT3× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +255%
Funded once
- FPFLINT PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $30k
- NUNORTHWOOD UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +39%
- AGASCENSION GENESYS HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Child Welfare Society of Flint
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2
Word of Life Christian Church of Flint
Ecclesiastic corporation
Religion
3
The Northern Michigan University
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Education
4
The University of Findlay
The mission of The University of Findlay is to equip our students for meaningful lives and productive careers.
Education
5
Northeast Michigan Center
The organization promotes public awareness, education, & participation in the arts through the operation of a regional fine arts center.
Arts & Culture
6
Flint Institute of Arts
The flint institute of arts' (fia) mission is to advance the understanding and appreciation of art for all through collections, exhibitions and educational programs. the fia is the second largest art museum in the state of michigan and one…
Arts & Culture
7
Great Lakes Center for the Arts
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.
Arts & Culture
8
The Detroit Institute of Arts
The dia creates experiences that help each visitor find personal meaning in art.
Arts & Culture
9
Washtenaw Community College
To give hope and support to washtenaw community college students through scholarships and other philanthropic support.
Education
10
North Central-Flint Hills Area
The north central-flint hills area agency on aging, inc. is a private, non-profit organization that plans, coordinates and sponsors services in 18 counties to enhance the quality and dignity of life for older kansans and their families.…
Human Services
11
Mid-Michigan Children's Museum
To provide a hands-on environment that engages children to use their curiosity and creativity while learning about the wonders of our world.
Arts & Culture
12
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw
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…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Flint and the most unlike its peers is Northwood University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$570,000Other$373,720Human Services$85,000Youth Development$61,000Philanthropy$55,000Education$10,000Food & Nutrition$5,000
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 ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ALFRED P SLOAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH EAST ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE & GENESEE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE ↗
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.
Community Foundation of Greater FlintMI22.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Ruth Mott Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Merkley Charitable Trust · The Hagerman Foundation · The Serra Foundation · United Way of Genesee County · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CROSSOVER OUTREACH.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~20 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 382971961 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CROSSOVER OUTREACH, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 20 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Graff Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Graff Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines