How much did JOE D PENTECOST FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of JOE D PENTECOST FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

casainghamscouts

2020

scouts

2021

scouts

2022

scouts

2023

mid-michiganscouts

2024

leadershipmid

2025

midscouts

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k17 grants · $98k
$10k–50k23 grants · $394k
$50k–250k5 grants · $643k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$28M

Total assets

Largest grants

MID MICHIGAN RECOVERY SERVICES INC$200,000
WAI-IAM INC$178,000
LANSING PROMISE$115,000
MSU BRESLIN AND CHAMPIONS EDGE$100,000
THE DAVIES PROJECT FOR MID MICHIGAN CHILDREN$50,000
AITCH FOUNDATION$45,000
THE HOUSE OF PROMISE$40,000
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC$30,000
CHILD & FAMILY CHARITIES$25,000
MID-MICHIGAN TENNIS ASSOCIATION$20,000
WOLDUMAR NATURE ASSOCIATION$20,000
ENDEAVOR HOUSE MINISTRIES$20,000
TODD MARTIN YOUTH LEADERSHIP$15,000
HIGHFIELDS INC$15,000
MID MICHIGAN TREATMENT COUTS$15,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $410k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.5M · 67 repeat orgs$635k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +64% for the ones you funded once.

67 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.5M

$409k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%

+64%

Still filing today

36%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $226k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

MR
MID-MICHIGAN RECOVERY SERVICES
4× · 2021–2025 · $627k · revenue +76%
LP
LANSING PROMISE
9× · 2017–2025 · $515k · revenue +253%
WI
WAI-IAM INC
2× · 2024–2025 · $356k · revenue +77%

Funded once

HC
HOLY CROSS WOMEN'S BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
one grant, 2018 · $250k
LC
LANSING COMMUNITY COLLEGE
one grant, 2024 · $65k
W
WKAR
one grant, 2024 · $22k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 Family Resources

Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver comprehensive services to low-income children five and under and their families, promoting their wel-being and development

Education

Habitat for Humanity of Michigan

To work with the economically disadvantaged to help them to create better places to live/work.

Housing & Shelter

Ingham Health Plan Corporation

To ensure access to health care for low-income persons.

Health

Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal

Housing Services of Mid Michigan

To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing

Housing & Shelter

Michigan Federation for Children

To develop and promote programs, funding, etc. for children and families

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Caring House Inc

Domestic violence shelter

Human Services

Lincoln Behavioral Services

Lincoln Behavioral Services provides comprehensive outpatient mental health and physical health services to individuals residing in southeastern Michigan.

Health

The Detroit Institute for Children

We empower children to overcome challenges.

Health

Michigan's Children

Ensure policymakers prioritize the needs of the most challenged children from cradle to career.

Human Services

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.

Environment

Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and

To develop and promote efforts for the elimination of domestic and sexual violence.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ele's Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Building Twenty One. 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 22 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2/41

the rest of the field

240/3,239

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.

05the grantee network

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/34

Grantees still filing

25/34

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$6,783,983Human Services$739,500Education$520,000Crime & Legal$356,000Arts & Culture$337,500Youth Development$319,050Health$116,532

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.

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.

Capital Region Community FoundationMI41.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Capital Region Community Foundation · Dart Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast · Lansing Economic Area Partnership · Re Olds Foundation · Jackson Charitable Foundation Inc · Delta Dental Plan of Michigan Inc · United Way of South Central Michigan · McLaren Greater Lansing · Lansing Rotary Foundation · Desk Drawer Fund · Louis Berkowitz Family 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 organisation JOE D PENTECOST 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ELI'S PROJECT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 883201633 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ELI'S PROJECT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 57% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Joe D Pentecost Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joe D Pentecost Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JOE D PENTECOST FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Joe D Pentecost Foundation?

More from the funding graph

JOE D PENTECOST FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Joe D Pentecost Foundation?

More from the funding graph