· Private foundation
Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of HERMAN & IRENE GERTZ FOUNDATION FIRST MERCHANTS BANK PWA TRUSTEE’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESQUE ISLE CNY SHERIFF | $13,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MONROE | $11,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| MONROE CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,750 |
| RIVER RAISIN CENTER FOR ARTS | $5,750 |
| FULL LIFE ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $5,500 |
| ANN & ROBERT LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| LEE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| MILLERSBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| BRIGHTON ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $3,000 |
| FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| VALLEY ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $2,000 |
| MONROE FAMILY YMCA | $2,000 |
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, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- MCMONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY7× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +76%
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MONROE MICHIGAN9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +140%
- LCLIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN6× · 2018–2023 · $8k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- WMWEST MICHIGAN ADAPTIVE DIVINGone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CTCASE TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPTone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
To provide medical research and education and to serve in ways that stimulates an epidemic of health among those interested in improving their well-being.
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.
The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
We are dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for the northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a leader in: -pediatric health care delivery…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Mcleod physician associates ii operates as a part of the mcleod health system. the mission of mcleod health is to improve the overall health and well being of people living within south carolina and eastern north carolina by providing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Tuberous Sclerosis Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 50 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 RIVER RAISIN CENTRE FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MONROE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHALLENGE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds HEARTS CRI MICHIGAN INC RHONDA R TRASK ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE POWER COMPANY KIDS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
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.
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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 Herman & Irene Gertz Foundation First Merchants Bank Pwa Trustee 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.
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