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Little Current 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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $273k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hope for Single Moms (Grand Rapids) | $48,000 |
| New City Neighbors | $45,000 |
| Wedgwood Christian Services | $40,000 |
| Family Promise of West Michigan | $35,000 |
| Young Life - Greater Grand Rapids | $25,000 |
| Hand2Hand | $20,000 |
| Blanford Nature Center | $20,000 |
| Treetops Collective | $20,000 |
| Once Upon a Room | $10,000 |
| The Other Way Ministries | $10,000 |
| Harmel Academy | $5,000 |
| ICCF Community Home | $5,000 |
| Revive and Thrive Project | $2,500 |
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 (FY25–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
Provides safe, affordable and quality housing for low and moderate income families in Douglas & Sarpy NE & Pottawattamie County IA, with an emphasis in Omaha/Council Bluffs metropolitan area.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
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…
Serve food to families and individuals in need.
Rebuilding hope through housing opportunities for families and individuals with support services during transitions.
Create quality affordable housing opportunities, enhance communities and provide households with skills to become self-sufficient.
Cch builds and manages quality affordable housing in caring communities.
Through a fiscally responsible and multi-faceted approach, north west housing partnership nwhp promotes public and private partnerships that create and preserve cost-effective quality diverse housing for low to moderate-income residents…
Almost Home empowers young moms to become self-sufficient and create a better future for themselves and their children.
To lift people out of poverty by responding to human need with the love of christ.
Family Promise in Anoka County (FPAC) empowers families experiencing housing insecurity to build a foundation of lasting independence.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Other Way Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Harmel Academy of the Trades. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 NEW CITY NEIGHBORS ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds Treetops Collective ↗
- Who funds BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAND2HAND ↗
- Who funds THE OTHER WAY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ICCF COMMUNITY HOMES ↗
- Who funds HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds Revive & Thrive Project ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Shine Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Frey Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · Steelcase Foundation · Ufp Industries 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 Little Current 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.