· Private foundation
James a Childs and Susan M Childs 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of JAMES A CHILDS AND SUSAN M CHILDS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $31,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BENZIE COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOLS | $6,000 |
| THE ROCK OF KINGSLEY YOUTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| IDAHO FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT 91 | $4,500 |
| NEWTON'S ROAD NORTHWEST | $4,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MI | $4,000 |
| LSSU FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| LONG LAKE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| KINGSLEY AREA SCHOOLS | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF IDAHO FALLS & BONNEVILLE COUNTY | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN | $2,000 |
| TRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC | $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 (FY21–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +20% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TRTHE ROCK OF KINGSLEY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +48%
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue ×12
- MHMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- EIEASTERN IDAHO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -3%
- GOGIFT OF LIFE INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +6%
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.
Michigan trails & greenways alliance is the statewide voice for nonmotorized trail users, helping people build, connect and promote trails for a healthier and more prosperous michigan.
We advocate and facilitate the development of a network of multipurpose recreational trails in Northern Lower Michigan.
The mission of the Michigan Trails Fund is to secure and distribute private resources that will be used to assist in the expansion and connectivity of the statewide non-motorized trail system which promotes access for all, healthy…
We, mercy health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. muskegon community health project is a member of mercy health and trinity health.
Advancing science and stewardship of adirondack waters.
Teton Valley Health Care Foundation strives to build mutually beneficial relationships with community members, businesses, and guests that, through their generosity, support a healthy and thriving valley. (Continued on Schedule O). Through…
We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
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…
Improving health, healing people.
To expand equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County and champion solutions through funding, education and advocacy.
The National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho, a major nonprofit health organization, is dedicated to preventing diseases of the kidney, improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and families affected by kidney disease, and…
To preserve and develop the north idaho centennial trail system and promote non-motorized trail connectivity throughout north idaho.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mt Holiday Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Rock of Kingsley Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 40 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 THE ROCK OF KINGSLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Newtons Road Northwest ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds TETON VALLEY TRAILS & PATHWAYS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FATHER FRED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FEED THE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Bike the Tetons Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EASTERN IDAHO ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EASTERN IDAHO COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds PACE North ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds 22 2 NONE ↗
- Who funds THE AMYLOIDOSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MT HOLIDAY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - GRAND TRAVERSE REGION ↗
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 · Oleson Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · The Julius H and Barbara B Beers Family Foundation · The Broad Family Foundation · United Way of Northwest Michigan · Aline Underhill Orten Foundation Inc · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Dte Energy Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Shell USA Company 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 James a Childs and Susan M Childs 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.