· Private foundation
Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of GREATER LANSING DESTINATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPITAL CITY FAMILY BMX | $21,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE RIVER | $15,000 |
| IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER | $15,000 |
| LANSING ENTERTAINMENT & PUBLIC FACILITIES AUTHORITY | $15,000 |
| POTTER PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| WHARTON CENTER | $10,000 |
| MID MICHIGAN TENNIS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| CITY OF EAST LANSING | $5,250 |
| LANSING ART GALLERY | $4,000 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER LANSING | $2,000 |
| DOWNTOWN LANSING INC | $1,400 |
| PROGRESSIVE EMPOWERMENT EDUCATION RESOURCE INC | $1,000 |
| MICHIGAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMORARY ART | $1,000 |
| THE CAPITOL COLLECTIVE | $1,000 |
| LANSING REGIONAL SISTER CITY COMMISSION | $500 |
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 (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
35 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 10 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- I5IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +56%
- MTMICHIGAN TRAPSHOOTING ASSOCIATION2× · 2022–2023 · $35k · revenue +14%
- PPPOTTER PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY3× · 2018–2024 · $12k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $106k
- MSMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $12k
- GLGREATER LANSING AREA SPORTS HALL OF FAMEone grant, 2019 · $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 support the economic development and improvement of the downtown area of lansing, michigan, for the benefit of the entire community, including residents, visitors, government, business, and nonprofit organizations, through such means as…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success 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.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
The lapeer area chamber of commerce is committed to continiously promoting & fostering the business climate to enhance the quality of life in our community.
To promote, foster, and maintain the interest of the people in music through concerts and educational programs.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
Motion picture exhibition
Promoting and exhibiting work of southeastern michigan artists.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce and the most unlike its peers is Capital City Family Bmx. 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 20 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 71 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 IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LANSING ART GALLERY & EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN TRAPSHOOTING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER PARK PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL CITY FAMILY BMX ↗
- Who funds POTTER PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL CITY FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LANSING ECONOMIC AREA PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN FARMERS MARKET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LANSING AREA HOLIDAY COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds STRIKEOUT BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER LANSING ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN CARES FOR TOURISM ↗
- Who funds THE CAPITOL COLLECTIVE ↗
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: Arts Council of Greater Lansing · Desk Drawer Fund · Capital Region Community Foundation · Lansing Economic Area Partnership · Re Olds Foundation · Credit Unions Chartered in the State of 222 Lake Trust Credit Union · Cinnaire Corporation · Delta Dental Plan of Michigan Inc · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · Joe D Pentecost Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott 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 Greater Lansing Destination Development 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.