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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.

$286k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $273k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
The Other Way Ministries$10,000
Once Upon a Room$10,000
Harmel Academy$5,000
ICCF Community Home$5,000
Revive and Thrive Project$2,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Treetops Collective: $20k → 11%Revive and Thrive Project: $3k → 11%Wedgwood Christian Services: $40k → 11%The Other Way Ministries: $10k → 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.
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 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
New Community Development Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
2
Michigan Family Resources

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

Education
3
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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4
A Christian Food Pantry Inc

Serve food to families and individuals in need.

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5
Community Rebuilders

Rebuilding hope through housing opportunities for families and individuals with support services during transitions.

Housing & Shelter
6
Neighborhood Nonprofit Housing Corp

Create quality affordable housing opportunities, enhance communities and provide households with skills to become self-sufficient.

Housing & Shelter
7
Christian Church Homes

Cch builds and manages quality affordable housing in caring communities.

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8
North West Housing Partnership

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…

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9
Almost Home

Almost Home empowers young moms to become self-sufficient and create a better future for themselves and their children.

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10
His Harvest Stand

To lift people out of poverty by responding to human need with the love of christ.

Food & Nutrition
11
Family Promise in Anoka County

Family Promise in Anoka County (FPAC) empowers families experiencing housing insecurity to build a foundation of lasting independence.

Human Services
12
UrbanPromise Charlotte

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.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Other Way Ministries; 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.
03the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hope for Single Moms (Grand Rapids): $48,000 · OtherHope for Single Moms (Grand Rapi…Young Life - Greater Grand Rapids: $25,000 · OtherYoung Life - Greater Grand Rapid…Once Upon a Room: $10,000 · OtherOnce Upon a RoomWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $40,000 · Human ServicesWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICESTreetops Collective: $20,000 · Human ServicesTreetops CollectiveTHE OTHER WAY MINISTRIES: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE OTHER WAY MINISTRIESRevive & Thrive Project: $2,500 · Human ServicesNEW CITY NEIGHBORS: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW CITY NEIGHBOR…FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE …ICCF COMMUNITY HOMES: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterICCF COMMUNITY …BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER: $20,000 · EducationBLANDFORD…HARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES: $5,000 · EducationHARMEL AC…HAND2HAND: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$83,000Human Services$72,500Youth Development$45,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Education$25,000Food & Nutrition$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS: $35,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHAND2HAND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLANDFORD NATURE CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE OTHER WAY MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHARMEL ACADEMY OF THE TRADES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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…Heart of West Michiga…The Shine FoundationCdv5 FoundationDouglas & Maria Devos…The Mercantile Bank F…Frey FoundationFeeding America West …Consumers Energy Foun…The David and Carol V…Steelcase FoundationUfp Industries Founda…
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Little Current Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Little Current Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 13 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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