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Higher Hopes Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k69 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAST PRISONER PROJECT | $17,219 |
| ANGELS OF HOPE | $6,000 |
| PAWS FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| GREAT LAKES BAY PRIDE (BAY) | $4,000 |
| TURNING POINT | $4,000 |
| LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
| AUTOIMMUNE ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
| BLOOD CANCER FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN | $4,000 |
| HEADWATERS LAND CONSERVANCY | $3,887 |
| AFFIRMATIONS COMMUNITY CENTER | $3,000 |
| HARBOR COUNTRY MISSION | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF NEW BUFFALO TWP FIRE DEPARTMENT | $2,500 |
| ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION | $2,000 |
| VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA | $2,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS TRANS FOUNDATION | $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 (FY24–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 57 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, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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
- CLCHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +1%
- TPTURNING POINT INC2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue 0%
- EWEVERY WOMAN'S PLACE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- HNHOPE NETWORKone grant, 2024 · $11k
- GLGREAT LAKES BAY PRIDEone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- 9F92 FOR 22graduatedone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +88%
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.
Helping northern michigan veterans meet urgent needs. support local veteran organizations in their work with local veterans.
The women's center, inc. supports victims/survivors of domestic and sexual violence in alger and marquette counties through programs that protect, educate, advocate, counsel and empower (peace).
Provides at risk, and homeless veterans with temporary housing and supportive services, e.g., medical, vocational, psychological, and educational training to regain or improve their status in society.
The Severe Weather Network (SWN) partners with community organizations, agencies, and faith communities to provide emergency, overnight refuge during the winter months for people experiencing homelessness in Livingston County. SWN also…
To provide housing and case management services for the homeless and mentally ill within the community.
Hospice care - wings of hope hospice and palliative care, inc. provides compassionate care in the later stages of life and support through the grief experience for individuals and families.
To support and assist VFW Members and local Veterans.
The mission is to provide food to needy and/or homeless veterans of macomb county michigan
To promote a violence free atmosphere from domestic and sexual violence in which survivors can recognize their options to have the opportunity to continue living violence free and regain their sense of self-worth; to educate and raise…
The mission of gw homeless services of northern michigan, inc is to provide safe, supportive shelter to individuals experiencing homelessness.the 2023 990 was for 10/1-12/31/23 due to an accounting period change.
The Organization seeks to provide a rehabilitative program in a Grand Rapids, Michigan based residential environment for women with substance abuse problems.
Social welfare and issue advocacy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Affirmations Community Center and the most unlike its peers is Wheels for Warriors. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
45 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. 45 of the 93 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 LAST PRISONER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF HOPE A FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES BAY PRIDE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN AUTOIMMUNE RELATED DISEASES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds 92 FOR 22 ↗
- Who funds EVERY WOMAN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HEADWATERS LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS PRIDE CENTER ↗
- Who funds AFFIRMATIONS COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JAEGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds West Michigan Veterans Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds HARBOR COUNTRY MISSION ↗
- Who funds Vietnam Veterans of America #154 ↗
- Who funds THE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SYLVIA'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS TRANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Women's Resource Center ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds WOMENS INFORMATION SERVICES 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: Consumers Energy Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Battle Creek Community 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Higher Hopes Foundation Inc 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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