· Public charity
Lakeland Health Foundation Benton Harbor/Stjoseph
Improve health, instill humanity and inspire hope.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $289,566 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,017,332 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $727,766 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $151k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $139k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS | $86,242 |
| BERRIEN RESA | $52,400 |
| ENFOCUS INC | $47,500 |
| ST JOSEPH COMMUNITY PARK FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| KRASL ART CENTER | $20,000 |
| WEECHO | $15,000 |
| BENTON HARBOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $14,950 |
| THE EVA MARTIN PROJECT | $12,474 |
| UNITED THROUGH MOTHERHOOD TEMPLE B'NAI SHALOM | $11,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +8% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- LHLakeland Hospitals at Niles and St Joseph Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $4.6M · revenue +8%
- HAHospice at Home Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $822k · revenue +18%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC2× · 2017–2019 · $51k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- CHCommunity Hospital Foundationone grant, 2019 · $52k · revenue 0% · 61% of their budget
- AUANDREWS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +16%
- NCNILES CITY MICHIGANone grant, 2019 · $40k
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 michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
To enhance health and serve our community to improve health, inspire hope, and save lives.
To help residents live to their fullest potential, recognizing the changing needs of each person.
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.
Promote the health and independence of lake county, il, older adults
Protecting life. sharing the truth. empowering people to make healthy life choices
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
Our mission is to enrich the lives of older adults through gracious retirement living, spiritual growth, cultural and educational opportunities and health care services.
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
To provide compassionate in-home skilled nursing care and supportive resources for those affected by cancer and related illnesses in southwest michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Greater Niles Economic Development Full Employment Corporation. 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 47 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 9% lost their exemption, against 12% 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 34 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 Lakeland Hospitals at Niles and St Joseph Inc ↗
- Who funds Hospice at Home Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Community Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANDREWS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ENFOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER NILES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FULL EMPLOYMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KRASL ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds St Joseph Community Park Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FERNWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds LIFEPLAN ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Logan Community Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RECLAIMING EQUIPPING AND DIRECTING YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds BENTON HARBOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Eva Martin Project ↗
- Who funds PACE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH-LINCOLN SENIOR SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds Well of Grace Ministries 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: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · Corewell Health Group Return · United Way of Southwest Michigan · Michigan Gateway Community Foundation · Whirlpool Foundation · The Pokagon Fund Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Wood Foundation Inc · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Lakeland Health Foundation Benton Harbor/Stjoseph 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.