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Joe D Pentecost 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 FY2017–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| ENDEAVOR HOUSE MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| MID-MICHIGAN TENNIS ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| WOLDUMAR NATURE ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| HIGHFIELDS INC | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANSING | $15,000 |
| IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER | $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 (FY17–25, $420k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 13 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k 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
- MRMID-MICHIGAN RECOVERY SERVICES INC4× · 2021–2025 · $627k · revenue +69%
- LPLansing Promise9× · 2017–2025 · $515k · revenue +373%
- I5IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $338k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- HCHOLY CROSS WOMEN'S BEHAVIORAL HEALTHone grant, 2018 · $250k
- LCLANSING COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $65k
- WWKARone grant, 2024 · $22k
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.
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…
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
To act as a vehicle to provide access to organized systems of health care and improve the health status of individuals in the community.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
To ensure that policymakers prioritize the needs of the most challenged children from cradle to career.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
To work with parents, child care providers, businesses and the community to improve access to quality child care and early education so that every child enjoys safe, nurturing and inspiring care.
Ozone house provides holistic support and housing services that enhance the well-being and safety of young people through empowerment, advocacy, and connection.
Education of young people in the Montessori method
Children's services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ele's Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reading Is Fundamental 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 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 92 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 Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State ↗
- Who funds MID-MICHIGAN RECOVERY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Lansing Promise ↗
- Who funds THE AITCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAI-IAM INC ↗
- Who funds IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The House of Promise ↗
- Who funds Child and Family Charities ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANSING ↗
- Who funds GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE DAVIES PROJECT FOR MID MICHIGAN CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHFIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds Capital Area United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds Joe's Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties ↗
- Who funds CASA THE VOICE FOR CLINTON COUNTYS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ENDEAVOR HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
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: Capital Region Community Foundation · Lansing Economic Area Partnership · Lansing Rotary Foundation · Re Olds Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · Jackson Charitable Foundation Inc · Desk Drawer Fund · United Way of South Central Michigan · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · 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 organization 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.
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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