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Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc at a glance

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Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$489k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$657kHuman Services$447kPhilanthropy$425kArts & Culture$387kHealth$280kRecreation & Sports$272kEducation$218kHousing & Shelter$135kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $360k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NMC FOUNDATION$50,000
MAYO CLINIC$30,000
ST CLAIR BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$25,000
FOOD RESCUE (GOODWILL INDUSTRIES)$25,000
GT REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
MT HOLIDAY INC$20,000
INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$15,000
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY$15,000
THOMPSONVILLE AREA REVITALIZATION$15,000
HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN$15,000
TBAYS (YOUTH SOCCER)$12,100
CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES$12,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LEELANAU COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%SINGLE MOMM: $25k → 10%THE FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 7%SHARECARE OF LEELANAU: $5k → 7%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $10k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $9k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $9k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $5k → 10%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $15k → 7%PEACE RANCH: $5k → 10%PEACE RANCH: $3k → 10%PEACE RANCH: $3k → 10%PEACE RANCH: $3k → 10%CENTRAL DAY CARE CENTER: $6k → 7%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 53 repeat orgs$797k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
54

Total granted

$2.8M
$615k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+72%

Still filing today

43%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IS
    INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +163%
  • MH
    MT HOLIDAY INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $148k · revenue +144%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +149%

Funded once

  • GT
    GRAND TRAVERSE LAND CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • GR
    GT REGIONAL LAND CONCERVANCY
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $38k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Top of Michigan Trails Council

We advocate and facilitate the development of a network of multipurpose recreational trails in Northern Lower Michigan.

Recreation & Sports
3
Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy

The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.

Environment
4
Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc

To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.

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5
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
6
Leelanau Conservancy

To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.

Environment
7
Michigan Legacy Art Park

Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.

Arts & Culture
8
Little Traverse Conservancy Conservation Trust

To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.

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9
The Little Forks Conservancy Inc

To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.

Environment
10
Legacy Land Conservancy

Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever

Environment
11
Land Information Access Association

Liaa is a community service organization working to increase the sustainability of communities and expand civic engagement. our mission statement is: helping people to shape better communities through: participation, education, information…

Environment
12
Michigan Recreation & Park Association

A member driven organization committed to providing quality professional park and recreation programs and services with fiscal integrity and progressive leadership to michigans recreation and parks trade.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Old Town Playhouse Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Dynamic Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 125 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
37/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NMC FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherNMC FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $235,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNMC - GL WATER STUDIES: $150,000 · OtherNMC - GL WATER STUDIESIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $90,066 · Other+88 more: $1,679,961 · Other+88 moreINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $156,404 · EnvironmentFOR LOVE OF WATER: $60,000 · EnvironmentSEEDS: $55,000 · EnvironmentSleeping Bear Forever DBA Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear: $10,485 · Environment+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentTRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureThe Great Lakes Childrens Museum: $60,000 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureOLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE INC: $32,500 · Arts & CultureFISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND TRAVERSE LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $12,100 · Arts & CultureMAYO CLINIC: $220,000 · HealthMICHAEL'S PLACE: $10,000 · HealthMT HOLIDAY INC: $148,100 · Recreation & SportsTHOMPSONVILLE AREA REVITALIZATION PROJEC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsVASA SKI CLUB: $11,925 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Human ServicesGENERATIONS AHEAD: $33,409 · Human ServicesSINGLE MOMM: $25,000 · Human ServicesHospice of Michigan Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesPARAKLESIS INC: $12,850 · Human ServicesLeelanau County Cancer Foundation: $10,000 · Human ServicesFriendship Community Center Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL DAY CARE CENTER: $5,915 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $135,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,555,027Environment$286,889Arts & Culture$254,600Health$230,000Recreation & Sports$185,025Human Services$162,174Housing & Shelter$135,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC: $220,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $156,404 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetMT HOLIDAY INC: $148,100 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $135,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetTRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC: $70,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetMID MICHIGAN HONOR FLIGHT INC: $65,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetFOR LOVE OF WATER: $60,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetThe Great Lakes Childrens Museum: $60,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSEEDS: $55,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCIVIL AIR PATROL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Traverse Pavilions Foundation: $47,850 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetFATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetGENERATIONS AHEAD: $33,409 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetOLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE INC: $32,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE INDUSTRIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSINGLE MOMM: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVETERANS IN CRISIS: $21,000 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetCHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHOMPSONVILLE AREA REVITALIZATION PROJEC: $15,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetPARAKLESIS INC: $12,850 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVASA SKI CLUB: $11,925 over 2y, 12% of budgetSleeping Bear Forever DBA Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear: $10,485 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTRAVERSE CITY CENTER OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGrand Traverse Ski Club: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER GREAT LAKES: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMICHAEL'S PLACE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFriendship Community Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCENTRAL DAY CARE CENTER: $5,915 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRAVERSE AREA COMMUNITY SAILING: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE DYNAMIC FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MT HOLIDAY INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC ↗
  • Who funds MID MICHIGAN HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds FOR LOVE OF WATER ↗
  • Who funds The Great Lakes Childrens Museum ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS ↗
  • Who funds CIVIL AIR PATROL INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Grand Traverse Pavilions Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FATHER FRED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC ↗
  • Who funds BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
  • Who funds GENERATIONS AHEAD ↗
  • Who funds OLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST CLAIR BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Grand Traverse Region…Oleson FoundationThe Art and Mary Schm…Rotary Charities of T…Consumers Energy Foun…Jim and Diana Huckle …The Broad Family Foun…Green Brick Foundatio…Kegley Family Foundat…Barton J Ingraham & G…William G Janis & Sus…The Julius H and Barb…
Grand Traverse Regional Community FoundationMI73.6× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Oleson Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Consumers Energy Foundation · Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundation · The Broad Family Foundation · Green Brick Foundation Inc · Kegley Family Foundation · Barton J Ingraham & Gail G Ingraham Foundation · William G Janis & Susanne M Janis Family Foundation · The Julius H and Barbara B Beers Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 125 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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