· Private foundation
Hess Wm G & Myrtle Charitable Tr Xxxxx0005
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k3 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC | $100,000 |
| OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER | $60,000 |
| OAKLAND LITERACY COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| TRINITY HEALTH-MICHIGAN DBA | $30,000 |
| GILDAS CLUB | $18,000 |
| OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES | $15,000 |
| NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES | $15,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| LITERATURE CIRCLE SOCIETY | $9,834 |
| GUEST HOUSE INC | $9,712 |
| WATERFORD YOUTH ASSISTANCE | $7,500 |
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, $335k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +15% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $454k · revenue +12%- OLOAKLAND LITERACY COUNCIL9× · 2017–2025 · $282k · revenue +154%
- ODOPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC5× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +289%
Funded once
- SOSOUTH OAKLAND SHELTERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +392%
- PVPresbyterian Villages of Michiganone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +15%
- GLGREAT LAKES FIELD SERVICE COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
To support lighthouse mi in their mission to build equitable communities and alleviate poverty in partnership with and in service to individuals, families, and organizations.
Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
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…
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Oakwood is called to serve a thriving community where seniors live with dignity, connection, and purpose.
To advocate for, educate, and assist our target populations. our services address the needs of many different people, but we continue to target our services to older adults and persons with disabilities.
Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.
To provide elderly or handicapped families and persons on a nonprofit basis, rental housing and related facilities and services.
Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
To provide elderly or handicapped families and persons on a nonprofit basis, rental housing and related facilities and services.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oakland Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Literature Circle Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 22 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 FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUDSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds SOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Villages of Michigan ↗
- Who funds THE FURNITURE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LITERATURE CIRCLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SONG AND SPIRIT INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · Kronlund Foundation Charitable Trust · The Village Club Foundation · Lula C Wilson Trust Xxxxx3003 · Aa Van Elslander Foundation · The Carls Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Hess Wm G & Myrtle Charitable Tr Xxxxx0005 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.