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Patricia Miller Anton and William Conrad Anton Foundation at a glance

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Patricia Miller Anton and William Conrad Anton 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.

$57k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$255kArts & Culture$217kPhilanthropy$128kEducation$102kFood & Nutrition$55kCommunity Improvement$41kRecreation & Sports$27kHuman Services$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$15k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$26,000
THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA$13,100
ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION$5,000
GREAT LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS$5,000
HARBOR SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
LAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES$1,000
MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION$1,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN$250
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$206
LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY$100
TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGES OF MICHIGAN: $11k → 8%LAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES: $1k → 13%SAME INC: $350 → 9%SAME INC: $200 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
RI
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$679k · 29 repeat orgs$178k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
33

Total granted

$679k
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+7%

Still filing today

66%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    7× · 2017–2023 · $234k · revenue +94%
  • CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
    7× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +29%
  • MR
    MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER
    3× · 2017–2019 · $16k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • IT
    IMPACT THROUGH GOLF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $27k · revenue +7%
  • DC
    DESERT CLASSIC CHARITIES
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -100%
  • KM
    KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -99%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Leelanau Conservancy

To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.

Environment
2
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
3
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
4
Marin Theatre Company

Marin theatre company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an…

Arts & Culture
5
Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy

The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.

Environment
6
Legacy Land Conservancy

Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever

Environment
7
Bowdoin International Music Festival

The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…

Arts & Culture
8
Chicago Maritime Museum

Operation of a nautical history museum.

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9
Music Institute of Chicago

The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.

Arts & Culture
10
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music Inc

Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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12
Madeline Island Chamber Music co Taft Stettinius & Hollister Llp

Music education programs in Minnesota and Wisconsin that include intense residential chamber music programs for talented young string players and talented young woodwind and horn players; a residency program in the Twin Cities, public…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
21/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Eisenhower Medical Center: $234,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical CenterMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $77,000 · HealthMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION+2 more: $2,418 · HealthHARBOR SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $43,732 · OtherHARBOR SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETYILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · OtherILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATIONTHE DESERT SYMPHONY INC: $36,500 · OtherTHE DESERT SYMPHONY INCDESERT CLASSIC CHARITIES: $25,000 · OtherDESERT CLASSIC CHARITIESNATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $21,350 · OtherNATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUC…KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL: $20,000 · OtherKILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVALARCHBISHOP IAKOVOS LEADERSHIP 100 ENDOWMENT FUND INCORPORATED: $20,000 · OtherARCHBISHOP IAKOVOS LEADERSHIP 100 EN…SAINT PATRICK CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $14,000 · Other+30 more: $52,732 · Other+30 moreGreat Lakes Center for the Arts: $56,000 · Arts & CultureGreat Lakes C…MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $15,500 · Arts & CultureMEDIA RESEARC…MENT LTD: $14,000 · Arts & CultureMENT LTDBEAVERTAIL LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM ASSOC: $6,100 · Arts & CultureBEAVERTAIL LI…THE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $4,103 · Arts & CultureCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $65,960 · EducationCULINARY IN…JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $14,000 · EducationJOHNSON & W…Monterey Wine Festival Educational Foundation Inc: $7,000 · EducationMonterey Wi…+2 more: $600 · EducationIMPACT THROUGH GOLF FOUNDATION: $27,000 · PhilanthropyFANS FOR THE CURE: $9,005 · PhilanthropyThe National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation: $32,800 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $1,100 · Food & NutritionPresbyterian Villages of Michigan: $11,000 · Human ServicesLAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES: $1,000 · Human ServicesSAME INC: $550 · Human Services
Health$313,418Other$273,314Arts & Culture$100,703Education$87,560Philanthropy$36,005Food & Nutrition$33,900Human Services$12,550

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $234,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $77,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $65,960 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Lakes Center for the Arts: $56,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DESERT SYMPHONY INC: $36,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetThe National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation: $32,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDESERT CLASSIC CHARITIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresbyterian Villages of Michigan: $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFANS FOR THE CURE: $9,005 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMonterey Wine Festival Educational Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBEAVERTAIL LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM ASSOC: $6,100 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMACKINAC ARTS COUNCIL: $2,103 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE THALIANS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,425 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEAVER ISLAND CULTURAL ARTS: $1,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALM SPRINGS FRIENDS OF PHILHARMONIC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Hellenic Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $918 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE TRAVERSE YACHT CLUB: $600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTop of Michigan Trails Council: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAME INC: $550 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE TRAVERSE SAILORS: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarbor Springs Library: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Great Lakes Center for the Arts ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE DESERT SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT THROUGH GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DESERT CLASSIC CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MENT LTD ↗
  • Who funds Presbyterian Villages of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds FANS FOR THE CURE ↗
  • Who funds Monterey Wine Festival Educational Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BEAVERTAIL LIGHTHOUSE MUSEUM ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds THE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER ↗
  • Who funds MACKINAC ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE THALIANS ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEAVER ISLAND CULTURAL ARTS ↗
  • Who funds LAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds PALM SPRINGS FRIENDS OF PHILHARMONIC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Petoskey-Harbor Sprin…The Summers Foundatio…Triford FoundationThe Offield Family Fo…Charles Stewart Mott …Charlevoix County Com…Frey FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Raymond James Charita…
Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community FoundationMI19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · The Summers Foundation Inc · Triford Foundation · The Offield Family Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Charlevoix County Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Patricia Miller Anton and William Conrad Anton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patricia Miller Anton and William Conrad Anton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Weston Playhouse Theater: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Patricia Miller Anton and William Conrad Anton Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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