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Mahogany Foundation at a glance

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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.

$89k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$146kYouth Development$124kEnvironment$118kRecreation & Sports$100kEducation$75kHousing & Shelter$54kArts & Culture$10kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC$34,250
CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES$20,000
TRAVERSE CITY AREA PULBIC SCHOOLS$20,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
YOUTH LEADERSHIP INCUBATOR INC$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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $34k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $15k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $13k → 10%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$467k · 8 repeat orgs$262k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +105% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$467k
$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+105%
+13%

Still filing today

38%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & 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

  • NY
    NORTE YOUTH CYCLING
    4× · 2019–2022 · $119k · revenue +108%
  • SH
    SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +60%
  • GA
    GENERATIONS AHEAD
    2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • TC
    TRAVERSE COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION
    one grant, 2019 · $75k
  • FL
    FOR LOVE OF WATERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +250%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF LEELANAU STATE PARK
    one grant, 2018 · $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
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
2
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
3
Traverse City Center of Entrepreneurship

To cultivate a thriving and connected startup ecosystem in nw lower michigan.

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4
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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5
Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services
6
Top of Michigan Trails Council

We advocate and facilitate the development of a network of multipurpose recreational trails in Northern Lower Michigan.

Recreation & Sports
7
Lake Superior Community Partnership Inc

To stimulate and sustain a vibrant regional economy by facilitating economic growth and prosperity.

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8
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

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9
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
10
Grand Traverse Bay Watershed Initiative Inc

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.

Environment
11
Northwest Michigan Arts & Culture Network

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.…

Arts & Culture
12
The Center for Michigan

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…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Michigan Community Action; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 19 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTRAVERSE COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION: $75,000 · OtherTRAVERSE COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATIONGRAND TRAVERSE CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $67,500 · OtherGRAND TRAVERSE CONSERVATION DISTRICTCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $52,250 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICESTRAVERSE CITY AREA PULBIC SCHOOLS: $35,000 · OtherTRAVERSE CITY AREA PULBIC SCHOOLSWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $31,000 · OtherWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTERFRIENDS OF LEELANAU STATE PARK: $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF LEELANAU STATE PARK+3 more: $22,750 · Other+3 moreNORTE YOUTH CYCLING: $118,500 · Youth DevelopmentNORTE YOUTH CYCLINGYouth Leadership Incubator Inc HackPlus: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $34,250 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST…GENERATIONS AHEAD: $28,400 · Human ServicesGENERATIO…SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC: $54,000 · Housing & ShelterFOR LOVE OF WATER: $50,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF PENINSULA COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $25,000 · EducationNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $10,000 · Health
Other$388,500Youth Development$123,500Human Services$62,650Housing & Shelter$54,000Environment$50,000Education$40,000Health$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTE YOUTH CYCLING: $118,500 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetSAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC: $54,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetFOR LOVE OF WATER: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $34,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGENERATIONS AHEAD: $28,400 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF PENINSULA COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $25,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC: $7,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTC PAW CAT RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% 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.

Oleson FoundationGrand Traverse Region…Rotary Charities of T…The Art and Mary Schm…Jim and Diana Huckle …Green Brick Foundatio…The Brookby FoundationHarry a and Margaret …Shell USA Company Fou…Baird Foundation IncAmerican Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…
Oleson FoundationMI26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 19 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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