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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.

$95k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$568kPhilanthropy$423kRecreation & Sports$260kCrime & Legal$50kYouth Development$19kEnvironment$16kHealth$13kEducation$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $36,100, the rows itemized in this filing. The $94,600 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $58,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE$25,000
MYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION$6,000
YMCA OF SAGINAW$5,100
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YMCA OF SAGINAW: $5k → 18%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.

12%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$115k · 4 repeat orgs$877k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +238% since the first grant, against +61% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
20

Total granted

$115k
$841k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+238%
+61%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsHealthYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • GM
    GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CENTERS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $77k
  • CN
    CHIPPEWA NATURE CENTER
    2× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +238%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HOYT PARK
    2× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +218%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF MIDLAND
    one grant, 2019 · $668k
  • CO
    COUNTY OF MIDLAND
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • WH
    WINDOVER HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
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
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

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

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2
Midland County Cancer Society Dba Cancer Services

To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.

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3
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
4
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
5
Michigan Sports Alliance

To encourage michigan residents of all ages and abilities to live active and healthy lifestyles

Recreation & Sports
6
Sw Michigan Miracle League

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.

Recreation & Sports
7
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.

Community Improvement
8
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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9
Saginaw Bay Youth Athletic Organization

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.

Recreation & Sports
10
Midland Northeast Little League Charter 1220110

Little league baseball

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11
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
12
Muskegon Sports Council

Muskegon sports council mission is to provide quality, reliable, year-round recreational sports activities and programs to both muskegon county residents and visitors to the area. to uphold the strict environmental guidelines set forth by…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mymichigan Health Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF MIDLAND: $667,750 · OtherCITY OF MIDLANDGREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CENTERS: $76,802 · OtherGREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CENTERSCOUNTY OF MIDLAND: $50,000 · OtherCOUNTY OF MIDLAND+16 more: $114,697 · Other+16 moreMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $402,500 · PhilanthropyMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+2 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyMIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE: $25,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF HOYT PARK: $11,700 · Recreation & SportsBAY COMMUNITY TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsCHIPPEWA NATURE CENTER: $15,500 · EnvironmentGreat Lakes Bay Health Centers: $6,500 · HealthMYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $6,000 · HealthReaching Our Community Kids: $6,577 · Youth DevelopmentSanford Youth League: $5,600 · Youth Development
Other$909,249Philanthropy$422,500Community Improvement$25,000Recreation & Sports$17,700Environment$15,500Health$12,500Youth Development$12,177

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $402,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCHIPPEWA NATURE CENTER: $15,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOYT PARK: $11,700 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSaginaw Community Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FREELAND ROBOTICS BOOSTERS: $7,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetReaching Our Community Kids: $6,577 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGreat Lakes Bay Health Centers: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arc of Midland: $6,400 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMidland Center for the Arts Inc: $6,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAY COMMUNITY TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSanford Youth League: $5,600 over 1y, 13% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region: $5,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Midland Area Communit…Consumers Energy Foun…Bay Area Community Fo…The Herbert H & Grace…Rollin M Gerstacker F…Dow Company FoundationSaginaw Community Fou…Harry a and Margaret …Alden and Vada Dow Fu…The Patricia and Davi…The Charles J Strosac…Michigan College Acce…
Midland Area Community FoundationMI30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 30 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 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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