· Public charity
Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc
The michigan baseball foundation will create regional economic development and support youth organizations through creative partnerships and grants by operating the finest minor league baseball facility and events center in the nation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $104,302 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $135,234 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,932 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CENTERS | $64,302 |
| HH DOW HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CHIPPEWA NATURE CENTER | $10,000 |
| FREELAND ROBOTICS BOOSTERS | $7,000 |
| LINWOOD YOUTH ORGANIZATION | $7,000 |
| MERRILL PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 7% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +175% since the first grant, against +85% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- GMGREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CENTERS2× · 2023–2024 · $77k
- CNCHIPPEWA NATURE CENTER2× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +29%
- FOFRIENDS OF HOYT PARK2× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +175%
Funded once
- COCITY OF MIDLANDone grant, 2019 · $668k
- COCOUNTY OF MIDLANDone grant, 2017 · $50k
- WHWINDOVER HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $12k
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.
To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.
Little league baseball
To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
The purpose of saginaw bay youth athletic organization shall be to provide a competitive baseball and softball experience for those of our youth community who are members of traveling baseball and softball teams.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
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 Trust provides modest financial support to support the Hoyt Library.
Our mission is to provide opportunities for kids, regardless of their abilities, to compete and experience the joy and benefits that come from playing sports.
Little league baseball for youth
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saginaw Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Freeland Robotics Boosters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 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.
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 MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOYT PARK ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW TOWNSHIP SOUTH LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE FREELAND ROBOTICS BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds Reaching Our Community Kids ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Bay Health Centers ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Midland ↗
- Who funds Midland Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds BAY COMMUNITY TENNIS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Sanford Youth League ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region ↗
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: Midland Area Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · Dow Company Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Alden and Vada Dow Fund · The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · Michigan College Access Network
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 Michigan Baseball Foundation Inc 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.