· Private foundation
Kegley Family 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $228k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| LIFEPOINT BIBLE CHURCH | $30,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $20,000 |
| CORNERSTONE CHAPEL | $20,000 |
| GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE | $15,000 |
| JOAN ROSE FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE | $12,500 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE LAND CONSERVANCY | $12,500 |
| FIRST STEP OF WAYNE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| CARE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA WEST MI | $10,000 |
| DETROIT CHILDRENS FUND | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS NW MI | $10,000 |
| GENERATIONS AHEAD | $6,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
32 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 9 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE6× · 2019–2025 · $67k · revenue +63%- JRJOAN ROSE FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $65k · revenue +33%
- TPTURNING POINT USA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $38k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $6k
- PTPENINSULA TOWNSHIP HEMLOCK PATHone grant, 2024 · $5k
- KCKENSTINGTON CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
The children's center's mission is to help children and families shape their own futures.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…
Social welfare and issue advocacy
Covenant house michigan is a sanctuary for homeless and at-risk young people, ages 18-24 who have nowhere to go. it is our mission to serve these children with respect and love.covenant house michigan builds bridges to hope for young…
Improving the health of the people in our communities by providing quality, compassionate care to everyone, every time.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Growing hope through love is organized as a child welfare agency that maintains a child placing agency license through the department of child welfare licensing and contracts with michigan department of health and human services to license…
Friends of the children - detroit has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
New genesis, inc. is committed to positively impacting lives in southwest michigan. new genesis is a youth and family services organization whose mission is to transform lives through programs and services that effectively meet expressed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Traverse Bay Childrens Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is The Rock of Kingsley 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 21 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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 51 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds JOAN ROSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FATHER FRED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS AHEAD ↗
- Who funds DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND ↗
- Who funds SINGLE MOMM ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROCK OF KINGSLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds Our Daughters International ↗
- Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
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: Oleson Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Dte Energy Foundation · Eagles for Children · Consumers Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Hayden Foundation · The Broad Family 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 Kegley Family 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.