· Private foundation
Orville & Helaine Lutz Memorial Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of ORVILLE & HELAINE LUTZ MEMORIAL TR’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAGINAW MUSEUM (TEMPLE ARTS) | $52,000 |
| SAGINAW SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| PRIDE IN SAGINAW INC | $8,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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 +39% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN3× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +1%- HHHIDDEN HARVEST3× · 2018–2021 · $27k · revenue +114%
- URUNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC4× · 2017–2022 · $24k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIOone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -5%
- OWOperation Warm Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +110%
- BABETHEL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $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.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Conserving land and water resources to promote sustainable communities and a higher quality of life in the saginaw bay watershed.
Promotion of conventions & tourism in saginaw county
The historical society of saginaw county is committed to serve the community by telling the continuing story of the people of the saginaw region through exploration, preservation and presentation of their historical and cultural heritage.
Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.
The YMCA of Saginaw is an association of all people united in a common effort to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice through programs that enrich the spirit mind and body for all.
Support library activities through materials and services
United way of southwest michigan works in berrien, cass, and van buren counties to sustain a united community where everyone contributes, belongs, and thrives.
United way provides leadership and resources to improve the quality of life in our community by generating revenue, creating awareness and engaging volunteers.
Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…
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To provide charitable transitional housing for homeless adults and children
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saginaw Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lions Visually Impaired Youth Camp. 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 45 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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.
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 32 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 GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAS ↗
- Who funds Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BAY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds BAY FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds Saginaw S T E M ↗
- Who funds PRIDE IN SAGINAW INC ↗
- Who funds BAY SAIL INC ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW INC ↗
- Who funds SELF LOVE BEAUTY ↗
- Who funds FISH TALES ↗
- Who funds LIONS VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH CAMP ↗
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: Consumers Energy Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Morley Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Margaret Jane Stoker Charitable Trust · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Midland Area Community 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 Orville & Helaine Lutz Memorial Tr 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.