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Leslie Tassell Foundation Dba Tassell-Wisner-Bottrall Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$371k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$685kEducation$564kScience & Tech$390kAnimals$211kPhilanthropy$179kArts & Culture$174kReligion$152kEnvironment$132kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k38 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $113k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO FOUNDATION$100,000
GRCC - TASSELL TECH$60,000
EQUINE ASSISTED DEVELOPMENT$30,000
IMAGING THE WORLD$27,500
CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER$20,000
GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATI$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
KCIS COMMUNITY ACTION FUND$10,000
WAWASHKAMO GOLF CLUB$5,000
METROPOLITAN CHOIR OF PRAISE$5,000
FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS &$5,000
ALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY$5,000
BANGLA MINISTRIES WORLDWIDE$5,000
EMPOWERED FAMILIES$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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 (FY18–24, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $5k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $2k → 10%Paws with a Cause: $2k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $1k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $1k → 10%ALTERNATIVES IN MOTION: $3k → 11%CASCADE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%CASCADE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%CASCADE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%RENEW MOBILITY: $5k → 11%Easterseals Michigan: $500 → 11%ALTERNATIVES IN MOTION: $1k → 11%Easterseals Michigan: $500 → 11%ALTERNATIVE IN MOTION: $1k → 11%BEAUTIFUL YOU BY PROFILE: $3k → 11%BEAUTIFUL YOU BY PROFILE: $2k → 11%BEAUTIFUL YOU BY PROFILE: $1k → 11%YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $8k → 11%YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $3k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
VA
TN
SC
DC
LA
AL
TX
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 108 repeat orgs$533k to everyone else

108 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 75 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108
112

Total granted

$2.5M
$428k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+29%

Still filing today

29%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • AC
    Aquinas College
    4× · 2020–2024 · $76k · revenue +3%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER
    7× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +91%
  • WG
    WAWASHKAMO GOLF CLUB
    7× · 2019–2025 · $58k · revenue +183%

Funded once

  • WM
    WEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $67k · revenue +77%
  • BN
    BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -3%
  • WM
    WEST MICHIGAN COMM TENNIS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society

To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.

Animals
2
West Michigan Christian Foundation

None

Religion
3
Movement West Michigan

Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.

Religion
4
Michigan Christian Home

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…

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5
Michigan Animal Rescue League

The mission of the michigan animal rescue league is to provide the highest quality of life to dogs and cats through rescue, medical care, socialization and behavioral support, short- and long-term sanctuary, adoption, and community…

Animals
6
Kalamazoo County Humane Society

The mission of the kalamazoo humane society is to nuture the wellbeing of animals and people in our communities.

Animals
7
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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8
Lake Michigan Bird Observatory

Bird research and conservation in the western lake michigan region of the united states.

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9
Mothers' Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes Inc

To provide human milk to improve infant health and save lives.

Health
10
Michigan Family Resources

Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.

Education
11
Humane Society of Southwestern Michigan

Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.

Animals
12
Michigan Water Environment Association

Be and create stewards for the water environment of michigan. provide high quality education for michigan's water professionals. educate and inform policy makers and the general public. promote scientifically sound environmental practices…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc; the most unlike its peers is Micheles Rescue. 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

55 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. 55 of the 235 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
38/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRCC FOUNDATION: $480,000 · OtherGRCC FOUNDATIONMAYO FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherMAYO FOUNDATIONMAYO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $220,000 · OtherMAYO HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONFrederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture: $91,500 · Other+177 more: $1,236,283 · Other+177 moreCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER: $75,000 · HealthALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY: $44,500 · HealthWESTERN MICHIGAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC W MICHIGAN ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE: $21,400 · HealthCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN: $15,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthAquinas College: $76,000 · EducationGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EducationBLANDFORD NATURE CENTER: $25,000 · EducationLORI'S VOICE: $9,350 · Education+1 more: $3,000 · EducationEquine Assisted Development: $136,250 · Recreation & SportsCascade Community Foundation: $75,000 · Human ServicesPaws With A Cause: $11,000 · Human ServicesYWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $10,500 · Human ServicesRENEW MOBILITY: $9,500 · Human ServicesBEAUTIFUL YOU BY PROFILE: $6,000 · Human ServicesWEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS: $67,000 · EnvironmentLand Conservancy of West Michigan: $39,000 · EnvironmentImaging the World Corp: $92,500 · International
Other$2,277,783Health$165,900Education$158,350Recreation & Sports$136,250Human Services$112,000Environment$106,000International$92,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetEquine Assisted Development: $136,250 over 8y, 35% of budgetImaging the World Corp: $92,500 over 3y, 27% of budgetAquinas College: $76,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER: $75,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCascade Community Foundation: $75,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS: $67,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWAWASHKAMO GOLF CLUB: $57,500 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY: $44,500 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetLand Conservancy of West Michigan: $39,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMICHILIMACKINAC HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $27,500 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetBLANDFORD NATURE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC W MICHIGAN ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE: $21,400 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY SPAY NEUTER INITIATIVE PA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMACKINAC ARTS COUNCIL: $20,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $16,583 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $15,850 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PANTRY: $14,950 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC: $14,950 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPaws With A Cause: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN BALL ZOO: $10,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOSERVE: $10,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRENEW MOBILITY: $9,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLORI'S VOICE: $9,350 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE: $8,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM: $8,450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $8,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES: $8,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEAUTIFUL YOU BY PROFILE: $6,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHEARTS OF HOPE DOG RESCUE: $6,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetMDRC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY GRAND RAPIDS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOur Hope Association: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY TRAIL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMicheles Rescue: $4,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSILVER MUZZLE COTTAGE: $4,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCrash's Landing: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDUTTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $2,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirls Choral Academy: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPregnancy Resource Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Equine Assisted Development ↗
  • Who funds Imaging the World Corp ↗
  • Who funds Aquinas College ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Cascade Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds WAWASHKAMO GOLF CLUB ↗
  • Who funds GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Land Conservancy of West Michigan ↗
  • Who funds MICHILIMACKINAC HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC W MICHIGAN ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SPAY NEUTER INITIATIVE PA ↗
  • Who funds MACKINAC ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
  • Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds THE PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗

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 Rapids Communit…The Meijer FoundationFrey FoundationDouglas & Maria Devos…Peter C & Emajean Coo…The Sebastian Foundat…Cdv5 FoundationThe Mercantile Bank F…The Korff FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationWolverine World Wide …Edp Foundation
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI46.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Frey Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · The Korff Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Wolverine World Wide Foundation · Edp 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 Leslie Tassell Foundation Dba Tassell-Wisner-Bottrall Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leslie Tassell Foundation Dba Tassell-Wisner-Bottrall Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%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
    3get no government money at all
    12report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Leslie Tassell Foundation Dba Tassell-Wisner-Bottrall Fdn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 235 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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