· Private foundation
Old Trail Foundation
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 $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $480k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT HEALING WATERS | $480,000 |
| ST JUDE | $50,000 |
| MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| ASPCA | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LAKE LEELANAU | $5,000 |
| BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST | $5,000 |
| ARMED FORCES THANKSGIVING | $2,500 |
| NEW GROWTH PROJECT | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| LITTLE MANISTEE WATERSHED CONSERVATION COUNCIL | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 66% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +37% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- MFMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $141k · revenue +830%
- CRCONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE6× · 2018–2023 · $104k · revenue +1%
- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS3× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- MSMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2017 · $111k
- DSDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WEST MICHIGANone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +9%
- TPTHE POWER OF EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -45%
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.
The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The lake leelanau lake association is dedicated to protecting and enhancing the quality and beauty of lake leelanau and its surrounding watershed for current and future generations.
The Mille Lacs Smallmouth Alliance is a charitable non-profit organization dedicated to rebuilding, preserving and maintaining Mille Lacs Lake as a world class trophy smallmouth bass fishery. Our work will include: educating fishermen,…
Friends of michigan animals rescue's mission is to protect animals and residents by promoting a safe and healthy environment for all.
To inspire and advance manatee conservation by partnering cooperatively in manatee rescue, rehabilitation, release, and monitoring efforts; improve understanding of manatee biology and health through scientific research; and promote…
FLSP was established May 25, 1992 and functions privately, as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, to promote the wise use and conservation of the Ludington State Park, one of the most beautiful state parks ever.
To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.
The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.
The mission of the michigan animal rescue league is to provide the highest quality of life to dogs and cats through rescue, medical care, socialization and behavioral support, short- and long-term sanctuary, adoption, and community…
Be and create stewards for the water environment of michigan. provide high quality education for michigan's water professionals. educate and inform policy makers and the general public. promote scientifically sound environmental practices…
Friends of the detroit animal care and control is committed to ensuring equal access to companion animals for those of all socioeconomic levels and raising the care for animals living in detroit.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aim High. 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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 38 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 MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE POWER OF EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMED FORCES THANKSGIVING ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds FISHTOWN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LAKE LEELANAU ↗
- Who funds NEW GROWTH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ↗
- Who funds Jose Wejebe-Spanish Fly Memorial Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS YOUTH COMMONWEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds Sea Turtle Conservancy ↗
- Who funds BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOC ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGEL BASSET RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SUPPORT OF KENT COUNTY 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: Frey Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Old Trail 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.
- Sea Turtle Conservancy — 1% of income from government
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.