· Private foundation
Green Brick Foundation Inc
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 $10k53 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $248k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $107,500 |
| INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $30,000 |
| GROUNDWORK CENTER FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES | $25,300 |
| TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| GLEN ARBOR ART CENTER | $20,000 |
| LEELANAU CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| NMC FOUNDATION | $13,500 |
| CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $12,000 |
| WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER | $12,000 |
| NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC | $10,000 |
| SLEEPING BEAR GATEWAY COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS | $10,000 |
| PENINSULA HOUSING | $10,000 |
| CROSSHATCH CENTER FOR ART & ECOLOGY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
89 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- GCGROUNDWORK CENTER FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +72%
- GAGLEN ARBOR ARTS CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +45%
- MPMICHAEL'S PLACE9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- CSCRANBROOK SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $20k
- LILEXSEEHER INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -70%
Living Artsone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -16%
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.
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.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.
To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
The Historical Society of Michigan will foster in citizens a deeper understanding of and appreciation for all Michigan history through programs and publications; preserve and promote Michigan history through conferences, publications,…
Advocate for michigan's historic resources to contribute to the economic vitality, sense of place and connection to the past.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.
To promote lenawee county as a destination providing contemporary amenities to transient guests in a historical and cultural setting for the economic benefit of the community.
Liaa is a community service organization working to increase the sustainability of communities and expand civic engagement. our mission statement is: helping people to shape better communities through: participation, education, information…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Michigan Community Action and the most unlike its peers is Peninsula Housing. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 110 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 TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK CENTER FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GLEN ARBOR ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF WONDER INC ↗
- Who funds Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology ↗
- Who funds NOAH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Traverse City Dance Project ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION LAW & JUSTICE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Leelanau Historical Society ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA HOUSING ↗
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds FOR LOVE OF WATER ↗
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: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Oleson Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Michigan Humanities Council · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Broad Family Foundation · Begonia Charitable Foundation · The Julius H and Barbara B Beers Family 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 Green Brick Foundation Inc 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.
- Lexseeher Inc — 19% of income from government
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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