· Private foundation
Louis and Helen Padnos 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GRAND RAPIDS | $80,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOLLAND-ZEELAND | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WEST MICHIGAN | $20,000 |
| ARBOR CIRCLE | $10,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE | $6,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY | $3,750 |
| HOLLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| LANSING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,250 |
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 (FY19–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN3× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +39%- CACOMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE3× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +103%
- TATHE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION5× · 2019–2025 · $38k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- CFCantor-David Fair Fundone grant, 2022 · $50k
- HCHolland Community Foundationone grant, 2020 · $50k
- TETEMPLE EMANU-ELone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
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.…
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
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.…
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.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca West Central Michigan and the most unlike its peers is New Israel Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 52 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds JOHN BALL ZOO ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Holland Community Aquatic Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds READY FOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S ↗
- Who funds YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLLAND ↗
- Who funds 70 X 7 LIFE RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LANSING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Howard Miller Foundation · Frey Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · Greater Ottawa County United Way · Larry and Karen Mulder 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 Louis and Helen Padnos 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.
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