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Hauenstein Foundation at a glance

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Hauenstein 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.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$803kArts & Culture$23kHuman Services$22kHealth$21kReligion$14kScience & Tech$10kPublic Benefit$10kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$290k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH CENTRAL LIEUTENANCY$20,000
SAINT MARY'S FOUNDATION$10,000
GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION$10,000
ST BARTHOLOMEW CATHOLIC CHURCH$4,000
SHAEFETOUSA VETERANS AND FRIENDS ASSOCIATION$2,000
FAITH HOSPICE$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAITH HOSPICE: $500 → 11%THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $10k → 12%ST BARTHOLOMEW CATHOLIC CHURCH: $4k → 13%MICHIGAN'S OWN INC: $10k → 18%ST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN: $750k → 8%SHAEFETOUSA VETERANS AND FRIENDS ASSOCIATION: $2k → 17%NORTH CENTRAL LIEUTENANCY: $20k → 14%FAITH HOSPICE: $250 → 11%MICHIGAN'S OWN INC: $10k → 18%ST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN: $50k → 8%ACQUINAS COLLEGE: $3k → 11%ROTARY CLUB OF GRAND RAPIDS: $5k → 11%GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER: $5k → 11%GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%SAINT MARY'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%ST MARY'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$821k · 3 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$821k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $800k · revenue +22%
  • MH
    MICHIGAN HEROES MUSEUM
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue -5%
  • FH
    Faith Hospice
    2× · 2024–2025 · $750 · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • VA
    VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • TR
    THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • SM
    ST MARY'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
2
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
3
Trinity Health Grand Haven Hospital

We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…

Health
4
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
5
University Corporate Research Park I Inc

To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.

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6
Trinity Health - Michigan

We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.

Health
7
Michigan State Medical Society Foundation

To advance the field of health for the public good.

—
8
Villa Mary Immaculate

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. villa mary immaculate is a member of st. peter's health partners…

Health
9
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
10
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
11
Foundation for Catholic Secondary Education of Greater Grand Rapids Inc

The foundation for catholic secondary education exists to financially support education programs of catholic central high school and west catholic high through tuition assistance, faculty enhancement and program/facilities

Education
12
Advantage Healthsaint Mary's Medical Group

We, advantage health/saint mary's medical group and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.advantage health/saint mary's medical group…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Mary's Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Van Andel Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN INC: $800,000 · EducationST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN INC+2 more: $13,000 · EducationNORTH CENTRAL LIEUTENANCY: $20,000 · OtherTHERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $10,000 · OtherST MARY'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherDISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER: $5,000 · OtherROTARY CLUB OF GRAND RAPIDS: $5,000 · OtherST BARTHOLOMEW CATHOLIC CHURCH: $4,000 · OtherSHAEFETOUSA VETERANS AND FRIENDS ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · OtherMICHIGAN HEROES MUSEUM: $20,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSAINT MARY'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthFaith Hospice: $750 · HealthVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Education$813,000Other$56,000Arts & Culture$22,500Health$10,750Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST COLETTA OF WISCONSIN INC: $800,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMICHIGAN HEROES MUSEUM: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARY'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF GRAND RAPIDS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAquinas College: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFaith Hospice: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Grand Rapids Communit…Baird Foundation IncTHE PETER and JOAN SE…Steve & Amy Van Andel…Peter C & Emajean Coo…Frey FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Frey Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hauenstein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hauenstein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hauenstein Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hauenstein 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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