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Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of HARVEY RANDALL WICKES 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.

02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 35 grants below total $1,654,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,182,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $528,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $480k
  • $250k+2 grants · $917k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$500,000
TEMPLE ARTS$417,000
SCF-SHINE BRIGHT SAGINAW MURAL$200,000
RESCUE MINISTRIES OF MID-MICHIGAN$125,000
SVSU - COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN$79,500
SAGINAW FUTURE, INC.$75,000
LIFE CLINIC COMMUNITY RESOURCES$25,000
MIDLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS$25,000
SAGINAW BAY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$20,000
DELTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$20,000
SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY$20,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTH CENTRAL, MI$15,000
WELLSPRING LUTHERAN SERVICES$15,000
SAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY$10,000
COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS$8,000
02Your 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 30 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
19

Total granted

$4.1M
$949k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
-19%

Still filing today

63%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $313k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther

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

  • T
    TEMPLEARTS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +22%
  • GL
    Great Lakes Bay Health Centers
    2× · 2022–2023 · $140k · revenue +60%
  • DC
    DELTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • SC
    SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOOD CLUB
    one grant, 2023 · $333k
  • CH
    COVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $167k · revenue -19%
  • FW
    First Ward Community Servicegraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $103k · revenue +32%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your 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.

1
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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2
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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3
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
4
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

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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5
Saginaw Public Libraries Foundation

Support library activities through materials and services

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6
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
8
Midland County Cancer Society Dba Cancer Services

To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.

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9
Michigan Christian Home

The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…

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10
Michigan Community Capital

The mission of michigan community capital is to facilitate low-income community investment in michigan. these investments will spur job creation and economic growth in low income communities across the state.

Community Improvement
11
Michigan Family Resources

Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.

Education
12
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saginaw County Community Action Committee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Major Chords for Minors. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersFaith-Based Homeless Servic…Community FoundationsPregnancy Support CentersCommunity Theater CompaniesLocal History MuseumsFood Pantries and AssistanceCommunity Literacy TutoringClassical Music OrchestrasEnvironmental Advocacy and …College Foundation SupportCommunity Hospital Systems
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 49 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr15%16%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr18%45%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr15%11%20–35yr14%13%35–55yr18%72%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
12%
6,511/53,824

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.

03the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
14/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE — $1,500,000 · OtherCENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINESAGINAW COMMUNITY FOOD CLUB — $333,333 · OtherSAGINAW COMMUNITY FOOD CLUBSCF-SHINE BRIGHT SAGINAW MURAL — $200,000 · OtherSCF-SHINE BRIGHT SAGINAW MURALFirst Ward Community Service — $103,000 · OtherYOUTH FIRST — $100,000 · Other+29 more — $641,685 · Other+29 moreTEMPLEARTS — $1,250,000 · Arts & CultureTEMPLEARTSMidland Center for the Arts Inc — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $51,000 · Arts & CultureCOVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $166,667 · HealthGreat Lakes Bay Health Centers — $140,000 · HealthLIFECLINIC COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $50,000 · HealthRescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan — $314,000 · Housing & ShelterEMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW INC — $14,000 · Housing & ShelterSAGINAW FUTURE INC — $200,000 · EducationDELTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $60,000 · EducationSAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationMichigan Colleges Alliance — $15,000 · Education+1 more — $7,900 · EducationMISSION IN THE CITY — $30,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN CHILD & FAMILY SERVICE OF MICHIGAN INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE DIAPER ALLIANCE INC — $10,500 · Human ServicesSaginaw County Youth Protection Council — $8,500 · Human ServicesSAGINAW COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesSAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY — $50,000 · EnvironmentCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS — $23,200 · PhilanthropySaginaw Community Foundation — $8,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,878,018Arts & Culture$1,351,000Health$356,667Housing & Shelter$328,000Education$302,900Human Services$71,000Environment$50,000Philanthropy$31,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTEMPLEARTS — $1,250,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetRescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan — $314,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSAGINAW FUTURE INC — $200,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetCOVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $166,667 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetGreat Lakes Bay Health Centers — $140,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Ward Community Service — $103,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetHOLY CROSS SERVICES INC — $80,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDELTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMidland Center for the Arts Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIFECLINIC COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $50,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY — $50,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMISSION IN THE CITY — $30,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetMID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS — $23,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAGINAW CHORAL SOCIETY INC — $21,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetSAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHESANING AREA EMERGENCY RELIEF — $17,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetMichigan Colleges Alliance — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN CHILD & FAMILY SERVICE OF MICHIGAN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEast Side Soup Kitchen — $14,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW INC — $14,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE DIAPER ALLIANCE INC — $10,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSaginaw County Youth Protection Council — $8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSaginaw Community Foundation — $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetREAD Association of Saginaw County — $7,900 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetSAGINAW COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS — $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budget
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.

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.

Saginaw Community Fou…Allen E & Marie A Nic…Wickson-Link Memorial…Consumers Energy Foun…Frank N Andersen Foun…Wallace & Irene Bronn…Boutell Memorial FundMorley FoundationAlice E Turner Memori…Wm McNally Family Fou…Harvey Memorial Found…Yeo Family Foundation
Saginaw Community FoundationMI42.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saginaw Community Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Boutell Memorial Fund · Morley Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Harvey Memorial Foundation · Yeo 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Harvey Randall Wickes 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.4M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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