· Private foundation
Jack E and Eleanor Cannon Hill Foundation
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
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $352k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Michigan - Sagher & Stacey Research | $551,763 |
| University of Michigan - Health Dept of Inter Med | $433,778 |
| Bucket List of Dreams | $301,233 |
| Love from Louie Inc | $250,000 |
| Neuroendocrine Cancer Awareness Network | $150,159 |
| Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center | $102,439 |
| St George Foundation | $99,810 |
| University of Michigan - Sagher & Stacey Research | $30,000 |
| University of Michigan - Health Dept of Inter Med | $25,000 |
| Brass Band of Battle Creek | $20,000 |
| Blood Cancer United | $20,000 |
| Alzheimers Assn | $15,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Jack E and Eleanor Cannon Hill Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 74% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $499k 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
- LFLOVE FROM LOUIE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $374k · revenue +14% · 40% of their budget
Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center5× · 2021–2025 · $142k · revenue +41%- GLGREAT LAKES BURN CAMP INC2× · 2020–2021 · $24k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- BIBETHANY INCone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -71%
- PSPERFECTLY SCARRED INCone grant, 2023 · $25k
- RRRESPONDER RESCUE INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -44%
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.
Creating healthy communities - together
Camp bluebird of west michigan provides weekend retreats for adult cancer patients and survivors. our retreats give participants the opportunity to meet others who have shared their experience while offering dynamic spearkers, relaxation…
Improving the health of the people in our communities by providing quality, compassionate long-term acute care to everyone, every time.
The mission of lending hands is to lend various kinds of home medical and other related equipment, for free and on a temporary basis, to anyone living in our service area without regard to age, race, sex, creed, income or disability.
Our mission is to prevent, treat, and cure diabetes. our vision is a world free of diabetes and its complications.
To provide high quality health care to individuals and community groups in Saginaw, Bay, and other nearby counties. Services are provided without regard to race, beliefs or ability to pay.
SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…
The Transplant House of West Michigan is organized to provide individuals and their families that are going through the organ transplant process an affordable temporary home away from home in West Michigan to ease the transitions of their…
Tertiary care academic medical center
To provide compassionate in-home skilled nursing care and supportive resources for those affected by cancer and related illnesses in southwest michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Disability Connections Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 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 LOVE FROM LOUIE INC ↗
- Who funds Neuroendocrine Cancer Awareness Network ↗
- Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
- Who funds Our Neighbors Keeper ↗
- Who funds BETHANY INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES BURN CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Brass Band of Battle Creek ↗
- Who funds RESPONDER RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR CAFE AND FARMS ↗
- Who funds Center for Family Health ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Jack E and Eleanor Cannon Hill 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.
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