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Mahogany 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC | $34,250 |
| TRAVERSE CITY AREA PULBIC SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| YOUTH LEADERSHIP INCUBATOR INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +105% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- NYNORTE YOUTH CYCLING4× · 2019–2022 · $119k · revenue +108%
- SHSAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +60%
- GAGENERATIONS AHEAD2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- TCTRAVERSE COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATIONone grant, 2019 · $75k
- FLFOR LOVE OF WATERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +51%
- FOFRIENDS OF LEELANAU STATE PARKone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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.
To cultivate a thriving and connected startup ecosystem in nw lower michigan.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
We advocate and facilitate the development of a network of multipurpose recreational trails in Northern Lower Michigan.
To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.
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.…
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…
The grand traverse bay watershed initiative, inc. advocates for clean water in the grand traverse bay and acts to protect and preserve the bay's watershed.
The mission of the northwest michigan arts & culture network ("the network") is to harness the collective power of the creative sector to cultivate vibrant communities by strengthening the regional ecosystem that supports arts and culture.…
For all state residents, diverse civic stakeholders and philanthropy, the center for michigan (the center) and its nonprofit newsrooms - bridge michigan and bridgedetroit - make michigan better through high-quality, nonpartisan journalism…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Michigan Community Action and the most unlike its peers is Tc Paw Cat Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 NORTE YOUTH CYCLING ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC ↗
- Who funds FOR LOVE OF WATER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS AHEAD ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PENINSULA COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Leadership Incubator Inc HackPlus ↗
- Who funds TC PAW CAT RESCUE ↗
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: Oleson Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundation · Green Brick Foundation Inc · The Brookby Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Mahogany 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.