· Private foundation
Paradise Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ARC OF MIDLAND | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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 +4% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UHUMRC-PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +36%
- TAThe Arc of Midland4× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +16%
- VAVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- TMTHE MIDDLE WAY SANCTUARYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- BABAY AREA SOCCER ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -11%
- GRGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
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…
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.
Creating healthy communities - together
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 great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eightcap Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Middle Way Sanctuary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 26 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 UMRC-PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Midland ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Midland Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds EIGHTCAP INC ↗
- Who funds TRUENORTH COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE MIDDLE WAY SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM LIFE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds WHITECAPS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GRAND RAPIDS PARKS ↗
- Who funds DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Aquinas College ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
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 · The Meijer Foundation · Frey Foundation · Ufp Industries Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Wolverine World Wide Foundation · THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Gillett Family 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 Paradise 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.