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Margaret Jane Stoker Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Arts & Culture$310kRecreation & Sports$150kHealth$148kHuman Services$105kPhilanthropy$93kHousing & Shelter$40kScience & Tech$30kEducation$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$55,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAGINAW MUSEUM - TEMPLE ARTS$55,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%OPERATION WARM INC: $10k → 10%SELF LOVE BEAUTY: $10k → 9%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF SAGINAW: $25k → 18%UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC: $10k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

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Saginaw Public Libraries Foundation

Support library activities through materials and services

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2
Historical Society of Saginaw County

The historical society of saginaw county is committed to serve the community by telling the continuing story of the people of the saginaw region through exploration, preservation and presentation of their historical and cultural heritage.

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3
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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4
Saginaw Community Food Club & Kitchen

To address and improve food equity by providing access to healthy foods and nutritional resources to individuals and communities.

Food & Nutrition
5
Great Lakes Bay Health Centers

To provide high quality health care to individuals and community groups in Saginaw, Bay, and other nearby counties. Services are provided without regard to race, beliefs or ability to pay.

Health
6
Hoyt Trust

The Trust provides modest financial support to support the Hoyt Library.

Education
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Saginaw County Convention & Visitors Bureau

Promotion of conventions & tourism in saginaw county

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8
The Samaritan Well Inc

To provide charitable transitional housing for homeless adults and children

Human Services
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Young Mens Christian Assoc-Saginaw

The YMCA of Saginaw is an association of all people united in a common effort to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice through programs that enrich the spirit mind and body for all.

Human Services
10
Saginaw County Youth Protection Council

To empower and support children and families in reaching their full potential and becoming self-sufficient, saving lives and creating futures through educational enrichment and shelter services.

Human Services
11
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
12
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saginaw Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Hoyt Park. 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 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr12%10%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr14%25%35–55yr20%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr14%11%35–55yr20%59%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
1/21
the rest of the field
13%
1,525/11,793

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.

04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
7/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEMPLE THEATRE — $75,000 · OtherTEMPLE THEATRESAGINAW MUSEUM - TEMPLE ARTS — $55,000 · OtherSAGINAW MUSEUM - TEMPLE ARTSYMCA OF SAGINAW — $50,000 · OtherYMCA OF SAGINAWUNITED WAY OF SAGINAW — $50,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF SAGINAWCentral Michigan University Research Corporation — $30,000 · OtherCentral Michigan University Research Cor…+9 more — $72,188 · Other+9 moreTEMPLEARTS — $175,000 · Arts & CultureTEMPLEARTSFRIENDS OF HOYT PARK — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF HOYT PA…GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsGREATER MIDLAND CO…FRIENDS OF HOYT PARK & POOL INC — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF HOYT PA…SAGINAW COOPERATIVE HOSPITALS INC DBA/CMU MEDICAL EDUCATION PARTNERS — $138,550 · HealthSAGINAW COOPERAT…Child & Family Service of Saginaw — $25,000 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesUNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSELF LOVE BEAUTY — $9,500 · Human ServicesSaginaw Community Foundation — $42,500 · PhilanthropySan Joaquin Delta Community College Foundation — $4,000 · PhilanthropyEMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW INC — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterCommunities First Inc — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$332,188Arts & Culture$175,000Recreation & Sports$150,000Health$138,550Human Services$54,500Philanthropy$46,500Housing & Shelter$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTEMPLEARTS — $175,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSAGINAW COOPERATIVE HOSPITALS INC DBA/CMU MEDICAL EDUCATION PARTNERS — $138,550 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOYT PARK — $50,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetGREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOYT PARK & POOL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSaginaw Community Foundation — $42,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCentral Michigan University Research Corporation — $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW INC — $30,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetChild & Family Service of Saginaw — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunities First Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSaginaw S T E M — $9,995 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTeen Challenge of Saginaw Inc — $9,504 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSELF LOVE BEAUTY — $9,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetEast Side Soup Kitchen — $9,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSan Joaquin Delta Community College Foundation — $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Saginaw Community Fou…Consumers Energy Foun…Morley FoundationBoutell Memorial FundWm McNally Family Fou…Allen E & Marie A Nic…Wickson-Link Memorial…Orville & Helaine Lut…Alice E Turner Memori…Frank N Andersen Foun…Tri-Star Charitable F…Harvey Memorial Found…
Saginaw Community FoundationMI28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saginaw Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Morley Foundation · Boutell Memorial Fund · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Orville & Helaine Lutz Memorial Tr · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Tri-Star Charitable Foundation · Harvey Memorial 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 Margaret Jane Stoker Charitable Trust 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your 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
    3report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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