· Public charity
Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation
To inspire active lifestyles and healthy food choices through education, environmental change, community events, and policy leadership.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $221k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+13 grants · $6.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids | $898,300 |
| National Kidney Foundation of MI | $685,213 |
| Henry Ford Health System | $678,339 |
| Genesee Intermediate School District | $615,182 |
| Crim Fitness Foundation | $554,381 |
| Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeast MI | $491,442 |
| Saginaw Intermediate School District | $425,460 |
| Tuscola Intermediate School District | $400,621 |
| Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities | $399,342 |
| Calhoun Intermediate School District | $349,550 |
| Michigan State University | $346,004 |
| Washtenaw Intermediate School District | $337,232 |
| Detroit Public Schools Community District | $297,552 |
| Eastern Upper Peninsula ISD | $241,465 |
| Gratiot-Isabella RESD | $237,172 |
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 (FY17–24, $6.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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 +69% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 7 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $773k 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
- NKNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +93%
- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019)8× · 2017–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +84%
- HFHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM8× · 2017–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +69%
Funded once
- MDMICHIGAN DEP OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $200k
- MTMICHIGAN TRAILS & GREENWAYS ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $72k · revenue +893% · 41% of their budget
- BHBeaumont Healthone grant, 2019 · $65k · revenue +87%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Healthy Community and the most unlike its peers is The Chelsea Health and Wellness Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 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. 30 of the 79 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 National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019) ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds THE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST LANSING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds GROWING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN MI INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF PLANNING ↗
- Who funds Bronson South Haven Hospital ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY ↗
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: Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association Inc · Michigan College Access Network · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Carls Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Comerica Charitable 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 Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports 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.