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Jubilee Foundation Dba Herman Miller Cares

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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2021
108
Grants FY2021
17
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Education$494kArts & Culture$209kHuman Services$107kCivil Rights$76kCommunity Improvement$72kPhilanthropy$64kYouth Development$59kHealth$48kOther$0
02FY2021 · 108 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k75 grants · $204k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $457k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $677k
$3,500
Median grant
17
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE$150,000
DONORS CHOOSE$100,000
FAIR AND EQUAL MICHIGAN$60,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOLLANDZEELAND$58,000
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION$55,000
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA$53,500
DETROIT COLLABORATIVE DESIGN CENTER$50,000
MSU FOUNDATION$50,000
GLOBAL NOMADS GROUP$50,000
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
URBAN ARTS COLLECTIVE$42,000
DENVER ART MUSEUM$40,000
ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK$40,000
CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION$40,000
HAND 2 HAND$31,200
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 (FY21–21, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE: $2k → 11%LONG ISLAND CARES: $500 → 7%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $55k → 11%CENTER FOR FAMILY RESOURCES: $10k → 8%PAJAMA PROGRAM: $1k → 17%LIGHTHOUSE IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES: $10k → 8%ALTERNATIVES IN MOTION: $1k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LAKESHORE: $1k → 15%SAMARITAS: $5k → 21%ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION: $2k → 11%ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $10k → 11%WEDGEWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $2k → 11%GRANT ME HOPE: $5k → 10%LITTLE RED HOUSE INC: $2k → 8%ZEELAND FESTIVALS INC: $1k → 8%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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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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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Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
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Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
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Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
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American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
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Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

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

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Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

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Digital Harbor Foundation

Democratizing societal and economic well-being through digital equity for everyone, increased diversity in the tech sector, innovative education, and technology for the public good

Education
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Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dress for Success Worldwide and the most unlike its peers is Grand Rapids Community College. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Development ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Lgbtq+ Community SupportFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Senior Support ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesFaith-Based Social ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Affordable Housing Construc…Youth Development CentersImmigrant Worker SupportAffordable Housing Developm…Community Arts CentersVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Local History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr12%4%5–10yr21%17%10–20yr14%29%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr20%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr21%20%10–20yr14%45%20–35yr16%9%35–55yr20%24%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/83
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,223

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

77 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. 77 of the 107 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)
74/77
Grantees still filing
55/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $150,000 · OtherGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGEFair and Equal Michigan — $60,000 · OtherFair and Equal MichiganCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOLLANDZEELAND — $58,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOLLANDZEELANDSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC — $53,500 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCDETROIT COLLABORATIVE DESIGN CENTER — $50,000 · OtherDETROIT COLLABORATIVE DESIGN CENTERMSU FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherMSU FOUNDATIONMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYURBAN ARTS COLLECTIVE — $42,000 · OtherURBAN ARTS COLLECTIVETHE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK — $40,000 · Other+51 more — $227,575 · Other+51 moreDONORSCHOOSEORG — $100,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEOR…READY FOR SCHOOL — $25,000 · EducationREADY FOR SCHO…WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC — $25,000 · EducationWATERSIDE SCHO…WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationWESTERN MICHIG…+6 more — $16,000 · Education+6 moreGLOBAL NOMADS GROUP INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL NOMADS…DENVER ART MUSEUM — $40,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MU…Chicago Architecture Foundation — $40,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Archi…United States Artists Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureUnited States…SAUGATUCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSAUGATUCK CEN…+4 more — $13,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY…ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER — $10,250 · Human ServicesARTISTS C…LIGHTHOUSE IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES — $10,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUS…The Center for Family Resources — $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Cente…GRANT ME HOPE — $5,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAS — $5,000 · Human Services+9 more — $12,500 · Human Services+9 moreHAND2HAND — $31,200 · Food & NutritionGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $5,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $3,000 · Food & NutritionBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 · HealthAFRICAN-AMERICAN HEALTH INSTITUTE — $10,000 · HealthNEXT FOR AUTISM INC — $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,760 · HealthASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $2,000 · HealthJessie Rees Foundation — $2,000 · HealthPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc — $2,000 · HealthDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE — $25,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF — $6,565 · International
Other$781,075Education$176,000Arts & Culture$163,500Human Services$107,750Food & Nutrition$39,200Health$38,760International$31,565

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFair and Equal Michigan — $60,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL NOMADS GROUP INC — $50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK — $40,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetChicago Architecture Foundation — $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAND2HAND — $31,200 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetODC NETWORK — $25,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREADY FOR SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER — $10,250 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAUGATUCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAFRICAN-AMERICAN HEALTH INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Center for Family Resources — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $6,565 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER OTTAWA COUNTY UNITED WAY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRANT ME HOPE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHOLLAND MUSEUM — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLAKESHORE ETHNIC DIVERSITY ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNEXT FOR AUTISM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Design Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION LAW CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY GRAND RAPIDS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVETERAN OWNED BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE — $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSAMARITAS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLLAND — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,760 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSITE LAB INC — $2,500 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $2,245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LITTLE RED HOUSE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

The Community Foundat…Grand Rapids Communit…Frey FoundationGrand Haven Area Comm…Perrigo Company Chari…Consumers Energy Foun…Heart of West Michiga…Dick and Betsy Devos …Greater Ottawa County…The Shine FoundationCommunity Foundation …WK Kellogg Foundation
The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area IncMI53.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Greater Ottawa County United Way · The Shine Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · WK Kellogg 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 Jubilee Foundation Dba Herman Miller Cares 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.

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no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Jubilee Foundation Dba Herman Miller Cares?

    Find your warmest path to Jubilee Foundation Dba Herman Miller Cares through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 107 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.2M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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