· Private foundation
Jury Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 32 grants below total $230,178 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $280,178 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k26 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $137k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Saginaw Art Museum | $34,000 |
| Pit and Balcony Theatre | $34,000 |
| Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra | $34,000 |
| Saginaw Choral Society | $15,000 |
| Mid Michigan Children's Museum | $10,000 |
| Thomas Township Parks Association | $10,000 |
| Temple Arts | $7,500 |
| The Nature Conservancy of Michigan | $6,000 |
| Centre College | $5,000 |
| Grand Rapids Civic Theatre | $5,000 |
| Saginaw-Shiawassee Habitat for Humanity | $5,000 |
| University of Michigan | $5,000 |
| Kalamazoo College | $5,000 |
| Salvation Army | $5,000 |
| Opera Grand Rapids | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +53% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- TTEMPLEARTS3× · 2020–2022 · $107k · revenue +385%
- SCSAGINAW CHORAL SOCIETY INC3× · 2020–2022 · $36k · revenue +31%
- KCKALAMAZOO COLLEGE3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- SVSAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUone grant, 2021 · $40k
- HTHoyt Trustone grant, 2020 · $39k · revenue -21%
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2021 · $33k
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 be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
Support library activities through materials and services
To preserve the knowledge, skills and technology involved with the maintenance and operation of steam locomotives and to educate the public about the enormous impact that these machines had in the economic development of owosso and the…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The historical society of saginaw county is committed to serve the community by telling the continuing story of the people of the saginaw region through exploration, preservation and presentation of their historical and cultural heritage.
The mission of the northwest michigan arts & culture network ("the network") is to harness the collective power of the creative sector to cultivate vibrant communities by strengthening the regional ecosystem that supports arts and culture.…
The mission of the Kalamazoo Civic Theatre, with community partners and volunteers, is to create and deliver engaging, inspiring theatrical productions and educational experiences that spark delight, build community, encourage…
To joyfully bring diverse people together to build community, enhance understanding, advance public storytelling and the arts, and protect our historic buildings.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fremont Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Township Parks Association. 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 55 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 10% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 56 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 TEMPLEARTS ↗
- Who funds Hoyt Trust ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Opera Grand Rapids ↗
- Who funds Fremont Area Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THOMAS TOWNSHIP PARKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIONS VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds MAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Friends of Theodore Roethke Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW-SHIAWASSEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Saginaw County Youth Protection Council ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL PLAZA INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
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: Saginaw Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation · Boutell Memorial Fund · Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Morley 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 Jury 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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