· Private foundation
Hitchens Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS | $95,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CHURCH | $40,000 |
| LELAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $40,000 |
| TRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC | $35,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| PINE REST FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NW MICHIGAN | $20,000 |
| SANTIAGO PANAMA MISSION ADVENTURE | $10,000 |
| ARCHANGEL GABRIEL GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING CHURCH | $5,264 |
| ST FRANCIS CHURCH | $5,264 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH | $5,264 |
| ST WENCESLAUS CHURCH | $5,263 |
| LELAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CEDERVILLE MUSIC BOOSTER CLUB | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% 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.
31 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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
- THTRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +66%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +69%
- CFCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- LTLELAND TOWNSHIP LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
- BLBruces Legacy Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +65%
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 advance pharmacy through education, practice innovation and research focused on patient care, for the improvement and promotion of public health and public education.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
To support funding of healthcare services for residents of mackinac island.
To promote cooperative medical services throughout marquette county and the upper peninsula of michigan that would provide a continuum of care for qualifying, uninsured, and/or under-insured persons.
The organization's purpose is to support mackinac straits health system in order to improve the health status of the communities it serves.
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…
To provide financial assistance to individuals and institutions for educational and scientific purposes in order to advance science to benefit the health and welfare of animals.
The Agency is licensed by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services as a full-service adoption and foster care agency for families located in northern Michigan.
The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.
A provider of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) which is a community-based, long-term care delivery program that provides comprehensive, coordinated, managed care to eligible participants.
Our mission is to provide necessary, compassionate healthcare to people in our community.
To advance the well-being of michigan residents through the promotion of sound public policies and responsible legislation. the purpose of these activities is to promote policies that strengthen the michigan health care system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leelanau Township Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bruces Legacy Inc. 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 45 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 MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds PINE REST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTIAGO PANAMA MISSION ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds MUNSON MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FATHER FRED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU TOWNSHIP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · The John and Matilda Shumsky Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · The Broad Family Foundation · Oleson Foundation · The Carls Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Hitchens Family Foundation 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.