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Nartel Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $150k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Alzheimers Association | $60,000 |
| Flint Institute of Arts | $21,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,500 |
| Life Challenge Ministries | $8,000 |
| International Crane Foundation | $7,000 |
| Genesee County Historical Society | $7,000 |
| Humane Society of Genesee County | $7,000 |
| Adopt a Pet Inc | $6,000 |
| Hand of Hope FLM | $5,000 |
| Genesee County Asthma Network | $5,000 |
| New Day Foundation | $5,000 |
| Center For Hope | $5,000 |
| Shelter Animal Donations | $5,000 |
| Sloan Museum of Discovery | $5,000 |
| Food Bank of Eastern Michigan | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $620k · revenue +40%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF GENESEE COUNTY8× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +55%
- FIFlint Institute of Music7× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CHChabad House of Eastern Michiganone grant, 2024 · $10k
- MCMott Community College Foundationone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
To promote the common economic interests of all the commercial enterprises in the Genesee County, Michigan community. The Organization strives to enhance the business climate in the area and advocates for public policy that supports…
The flint center for educational excellence is building an educational ecosystem that works for all flint kids by providing programs. research, and advocacy that ensure flint kids, their families, schools, and communities thrive.
Improve the health of genesee county residents. improve the quality and cost effectiveness of the health care system in our community.
The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.
To help women, men, and children live without fear of violence within their home.
The mission of the Flint Cultural Center Corporation (FCCC) is to foster cultural activity and community vitality through history, science and the arts. FCCC owns, manages and maintains a 35-acre Cultural Center campus; coordinates…
Housed in flint, michigan, we are a non-profit with a mission to relieve the innovator of the entrepreneurial burden. we know entrepreneurship can be difficult, and that's why we're here to help. as a community of student professionals,…
Advocate for people in recovery & provides holistic options for those recovering from substance use disorder, codependency & trauma.
To support and benefit the community foundation of greater flint. the organization will address a wide variety of community needs in greater flint, and its immediate priority is to provide aid to those affected by the flint water crisis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Flint and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 14. 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 15% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 99 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 ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GENESEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Music ↗
- Who funds Whaley Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds FLINT COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds GENESEE COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Communities First Inc ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-PET INC ↗
- Who funds FLINT JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Greater Flint ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds St Luke N E W Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MOTHERLY INTERCESSION ↗
- Who funds Genesee County Historical & Museum Society ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Kettering University ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN FLINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds THE FLINT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds SHELTER OF FLINT 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: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Anna Paulina Foundation · The Serra Foundation · Ruth Mott Foundation · The Hagerman Foundation · The Whiting Foundation · Merkley Charitable Trust · Tummala Charitable Foundation · The Williamson Foundation Inc · Burroughs Memorial Trust
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 Nartel Family 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.
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