How much did JOHN A & MARLENE L BOLL FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of JOHN A & MARLENE L BOLL 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

2019

expansionenhance grossechildredenhansing deaffood

2020

childredenhansing deaffood

2021

childredintroducingfood

2022

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2023

—

2024

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

03FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k36 grants · $93k
$10k–50k11 grants · $160k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$517k

Total assets

Largest grants

PROJECT DANCE FOUNDATION$25,000
THE HELM CENTER AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER$20,000
BAPTIST HEALTH$20,000
GROSSE POINTE MEMORIAL CHURCH$15,000
OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,000
JT MESTDAGH FOUNDATION$15,000
OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER$10,000
GROSS POINTE SHORES IMPROVEMENT$10,000
GROSSE POINTE SOUTH HOCKEY$10,000
GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION$10,000
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY$10,000
GROSSE POINTE THEATRE$7,000
THE WAR MEMORIAL$5,000
PROTESTANT CONGREGATION OF OCEAN REEF$5,000
GROSSE POINTE YOUTH NAUTICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000

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 (FY19–24, $519k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — the area typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.3M · 59 repeat orgs$848k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$800k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

-4%

Still filing today

44%

28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

OR
OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +1131%
OR
OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $114k · revenue +15%
JM
JT MESTDAGH FOUNDATION
5× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +37%

Funded once

YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT
one grant, 2021 · $514k · revenue -42%
SC
SPRINGHILL CAMPS INC
one grant, 2021 · $101k · revenue -38%
TH
THE HELM CENTER AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTERSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS
one grant, 2019 · $30k

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.

Opera Grand Rapids

The mission of the Opera Grand Rapids is to produce professional opera of the highest possible quality and to effectively share the art with a broad and diverse audience.

Arts & Culture

Grand Rapids Public Museum

The grpm exists to enrich the life of our community through experiences of the wider world through a uniquely grand rapids lens. offering exhibits, events & educational programming designed to inspire, motivate, and celebrate our human…

Arts & Culture

Michigan Lakes and Streams

Preservation and protection of michigan inland lakes and streams

Environment

Grosse Pointe Housing Foundation

Philanthropy

The Michigan Glass Project

Public Benefit

Michigan Theater Foundation Inc

To joyfully bring diverse people together to build community, enhance understanding, advance public storytelling and the arts, and protect our historic buildings.

Arts & Culture

Dte Beacon Park Foundation

Recreation & Sports

Michigan Wildlife Habitat Foundatio

To restore and conserve fish, wildlife, and habitat throughout the state and teach members and the public to do the same.

Environment

The Northern Michigan University

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education

Little Traverse Conservancy Inc

To protect the natural diversity and beauty of northern Michigan by preserving significant land and scenic areas, and fostering appreciation and understanding of the environment.

Environment

Dte Energy Foundation

Philanthropy

Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical So

To promote and augment an understanding and appreciation of maritime history with particular emphasis on the great lakes maritime history.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grosse Pointe Yacht Club Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wheaton College. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/40

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,525

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

36 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)

36/36

Grantees still filing

25/36

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,036,707Human Services$519,426Philanthropy$193,600Arts & Culture$186,000Education$78,500Health$58,000Recreation & Sports$48,000

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.

Community Foundation for SoutheastMI35.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc · Dte Energy Foundation · Maibach Family Foundation · Ascension Southeast Michigan Community Health · The Holmes Family Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Allan & Warren Shelden Fund · William & Martha Ford Fund · Children's Hospital of Michigan · Ford Motor Company Fund · The Kresge 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 organisation JOHN A & MARLENE L BOLL 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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: PROJECT DANCE FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 412098775 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 PROJECT DANCE FOUNDATION, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 50% 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 John a & Marlene L Boll Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John a & Marlene L Boll 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.

JOHN A & MARLENE L BOLL 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

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to John a & Marlene L Boll Foundation?

More from the funding graph

JOHN A & MARLENE L BOLL 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

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to John a & Marlene L Boll Foundation?

More from the funding graph