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Jenkins 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $512k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $703k
- $250k+1 grant · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEPRESSION CENTER | $600,000 |
| EMU FOUNDATION | $101,500 |
| PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $100,000 |
| SAFEHOUSE CENTER | $100,000 |
| FOOD GATHERERS | $75,000 |
| SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY | $75,000 |
| AVALON HOUSING | $75,000 |
| VISTA MARIA | $75,000 |
| NEUTRAL ZONE | $51,000 |
| OZONE HOUSE | $50,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN | $42,132 |
| DAWN FARM | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK | $40,000 |
| SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES | $40,000 |
| CORNER HEALTH CENTER | $40,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $740k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +37% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 7 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
- PNPeace Neighborhood Center4× · 2021–2024 · $265k · revenue +16%
- SASHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY6× · 2018–2024 · $248k · revenue +147%
- FGFOOD GATHERERS5× · 2020–2024 · $240k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- DCDEXTER COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $100k
- MPMICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +74%
- UWUNITED WAY OF WASHTENAW COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -92%
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.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
Community & home supports, inc. was founded to help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we strive to fulfill our purpose by developing, leading, and participating in collaborative and innovative efforts that support…
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
The mission of the washtenaw housing alliance is to end homelessness in our community.
Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
The mission of harm reduction is to reduce substance abuse and related activities in a respectful manner in collaboration with the user
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
To apply the principles of workforce development to grow michigan's economy while improving the lives of michigan workers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ozone House Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Educational Foundation of Dexte. 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 41 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 18% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 48 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 Peace Neighborhood Center ↗
- Who funds SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds OZONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN FOSTER CARE CLOSET ↗
- Who funds CORNER HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRLS GROUP ↗
- Who funds Dawn Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Homeless Action Network of Detroit ↗
- Who funds SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Neutral Zone ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF DEXTE ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Alpha House A Place for New Beginnings ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WASHTENAW COUNTY ↗
- Who funds A Brighter Way ↗
- Who funds Friends In Deed ↗
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: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · Thrift Shop Association of Ann Arbor · Dte Energy Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor Foundation Inc · Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Edward F Redies Foundation Inc
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 Jenkins 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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