· Private foundation
Leinweber Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $965k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $3,000,084 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $200,000 |
| BEYOND BASICS | $150,000 |
| MI COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK | $150,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $120,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $120,000 |
| SCIENCE PHILANTHROPY ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| CRANBROOK | $75,000 |
| 826 MICHIGAN | $50,000 |
| OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| FREMONT AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DETROIT AREA PRE-COLLEGE ENGINEERING PROGRAM (DAPCEP) | $20,000 |
| MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% 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.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k 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
- UOUniversity of Michigan5× · 2020–2024 · $14M · revenue +139%
- NWNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION3× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +39%
- BBBEYOND BASICS4× · 2021–2024 · $525k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGANone grant, 2021 · $250k
- RCRESEARCH CORPORATION FOR SCIENCE ADVANCEMENTone grant, 2023 · $200k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $200k
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.
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.…
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.…
To strengthen resiliency in people and their communities through prevention, education, and services that improve the quality of life
Ozone house provides holistic support and housing services that enhance the well-being and safety of young people through empowerment, advocacy, and connection.
Interact of michigan, inc. is dedicated to collaborative delivery of evidence-supported mental health and substance abuse treatments that foster hope and wellness. interact of michigan, inc. has developed services designed to meet the…
The league's mission is to promote racial equity, economic security, health, and well being for all people in michigan through policy change.
Dedicated to the empowerment of all the state's survivors of domestic and sexual violence. our mission is to develop and promote efforts aimed at the elimination of all domestic and sexual violence in michigan.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alternatives for Girls and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 30 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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BASICS ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC ↗
- Who funds 826 MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE PHILANTHROPY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds Fremont Area Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Herrick Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Leinweber 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.
- Covenant House Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
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.