· Private foundation
J S & S Michaan 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 50 grants below total $1,395,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,048,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $653,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $430k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $925k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Agains Malaria Foundation | $100,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $100,000 |
| Doctors w/o Borders | $100,000 |
| Oxfam | $75,000 |
| ANERA | $75,000 |
| UNHCR | $75,000 |
| The End Fund | $50,000 |
| Waterkeeper Alliance | $50,000 |
| Innocence Project | $50,000 |
| Surf Rider Foundation | $50,000 |
| National Network of Abortion Funds.org | $50,000 |
| Feeding Palm Beach County | $50,000 |
| New Incentives | $50,000 |
| Heart to Heart International - Aide for Ukraine | $50,000 |
| LA Food bank | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +29% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2022, 38 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
OXFAM-AMERICA INC2× · 2020–2021 · $125k · revenue +3%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +39%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- NINEW INCENTIVESone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -28%
- TMThe Michelle McGann Fund Incone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -24%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…
Accelerate equitable access to eyeglasses for one billion people. eyelliance advances four mutually reinforcing global and national strategies, gov delivery, sustainable financing, institutional advocacy, and catalytic partnerships.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amnesty International of the Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ocean Voyages Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 113 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 OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC ↗
- Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds SIGHTSAVERS INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NEW INCENTIVES ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds The Michelle McGann Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds The End Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Newman's Own Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 J S & S Michaan 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.