· Private foundation
Happy Buddha Foundation F/K/A Harvey's 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND TRAVERSE CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY | $500 |
| LEELANAU CONSERVANCY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of Happy Buddha Foundation F/K/A Harvey's Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 79%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +117%
- GTGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY8× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +321%
- MHMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- CHCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
- TATRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +177%
- UOUniversity of Michigangraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +140%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
The lake leelanau lake association is dedicated to protecting and enhancing the quality and beauty of lake leelanau and its surrounding watershed for current and future generations.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Glacial Lakes Conservancy, as a land trust, is a nonprofit organization that, as part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds FOR LOVE OF WATER ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF BLUE INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Oleson Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Happy Buddha Foundation F/K/A Harvey's Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Happy Buddha Foundation F/K/A Harvey's Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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