· Private foundation
Mitten Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GR PARK PROJECTS - RICHMOND PARK | $50,000 |
| AUTISM SUPPORT OF KENT COUNTY | $4,720 |
| COMPREHENSIVE THERAPY CENTER | $3,611 |
| CATHERINE'S HEALTH CENTER | $2,936 |
| ARTS IN MOTION | $2,711 |
| EARLY BIRD BOOKS | $2,686 |
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 (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- FAFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN5× · 2017–2023 · $103k · revenue +38%
- ASAUTISM SUPPORT OF KENT COUNTY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +102%
- CTCOMPREHENSIVE THERAPY CENTER3× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- GCGILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDSone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +18%
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +44%
- GFGRFD FIRE PREVENTION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.
The mission of metro food rescue is simple; waste less, feed more. we rescue food that would otherwise be discarded and deliver it to a network of food partners. thereby, helping to feed individuals and families in need.
Rescue, care for, and release abandoned and injured birds.
Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time, to create a future where everyone has access to nourishing food.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
Alleviate and prevent hunger amongst Michigan residents.
Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.
To provide quality nutrition services in a supportive environment to promote the health and independence of older adults.
Hope is a not-for-profit interdenominational christian medical, dental, and social service organization. hope's goal is to provide compassionate and practical help, ministering to the whole person with dignity and respect. this includes…
We exist to provide households with access to sufficient, nutritious food and related resources. we accomplish this through collaboration, efficient operations, education, and innovative solutions to achieve a hunger-free community in…
To provide a food pantry in southeast kent county, michigan serving some of the most impoverished communities in southeast kent county. to provide holistic aid to our neighbors in need, supplying them with the food and personal care items…
Provide no cost care and no cost room and board for the terminally ill.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Early Bird Books. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 30 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 FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds The Well Being Foundation ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SUPPORT OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE THERAPY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds GRFD FIRE PREVENTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD HUGS ↗
- Who funds GRACE'S TABLE ↗
- Who funds WHITECAPS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALL SPECIES KINSHIP ↗
- Who funds CAROL'S FERALS ↗
- Who funds CATHERINES HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Early Bird Books ↗
- Who funds The Delta Project ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY REBUILDERS ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 2540 HEARTSIDE INC ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Mojo Foundation · Steelcase Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Mitten 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.