· Private foundation
Graham R Putnam 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $192k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| FAITH IN ACTION | $20,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST COMMITEE ON RELIEF | $20,000 |
| WEST SIDE CHURCH | $17,000 |
| CHELSEA FIRST UNITED METHODIST | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ALUMNI ASSOC | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $15,000 |
| RESILIENCE | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| HOPE WESTERN PRISON EDUCATION PROGR | $10,000 |
| ENCORE MUSICAL THEATER | $10,000 |
| ALPHA HOUSE | $7,000 |
| GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $6,000 |
| ANN ARBOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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.
26 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- FIFAITH IN ACTION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +4%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +2%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $20k
- LSLANSING SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $11k
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
Humane fort wayne is a trusted partner providing comprehensive, lifesaving resources to pets and their people.
The Betterment of the lives of stray, owned and abandoned companion animals in Saginaw County, MI. Our county has over 20,000 households living below the federal poverty guidelines that own at least one pet. We are their safety net. We…
Helping animals live and overcome (h.a.l.o.) provides a no-kill safe haven where extraordinary measures are taken to save homeless pets and protect them from abuse and neglect. we continually refine our programs to maintain a 98% save…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
The lawrence humane society nurtures the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care and advocacy for homeless and abused animals, as well as resource for the pets and people in our community
The mission of the washtenaw housing alliance is to end homelessness in our community.
Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.
To eliminate sub-standard housing and homelessness from lapeer county.
The mission of women's center & shelter of greater pittsburgh is to strengthen our ability to meet the individual and evolving needs of those affected by domestic violence by investing in the growth of our people, deepening community…
Together with our community, we better the lives of animals through justice, prevention, and life-saving care. lollypop farm, the humane society of greater rochester, envisions a just and compassionate world for all animals.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity serving winona county…
To improve our communities by providing and maintaining safe, healthy, affordable homeownership opportunities for low-to-moderate income community members, in partnership with volunteers and organizations throughout the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resilience Advocates for Ending Violence and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 42 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 FAITH IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION AGAINST COMPANION-ANIMAL EUTHANASIA INC ↗
- Who funds TURNSTONE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WASHTENAW LITERACY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds All-Options ↗
- Who funds HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING HOPE 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: United Way of Washtenaw County · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 organization Graham R Putnam 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.