How much did PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION grant in FY2021?

PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION reported 9 grants totaling $731,430 in its FY2021 IRS filing.

Where is PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION based?

PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION is based in MI.

PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION

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· Public charity

PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION

Supporting organization of the community foundation for muskegon county committed to furthering the philantropic activities of that organization

$731k

Granted FY2021

Grants

Communities

$224k

Largest

01What you fund

0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.

Philanthropy$1.7MHuman Services$1.2MCommunity Improvement$1.1MEnvironment$250kArts & Culture$108kHealth$25kYouth Development$10kOther$683k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

capital campaignsneighboroper suppeducationalsingle momstalentludington

2019

capitalneighboreducationalsingle momsfinancialcreateeconomic

2020

facemetallowsingle momsliveseducationalchildren

2021

masonlowtalentbuilding

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2021 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$50k–250k5 grants · $659k

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$22M

Total assets

Largest grants

OAKTREE ACADEMY$224,000
UNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY$179,109
HANDS EXTENDED LOVING PEOPLE (HELP)$106,022
MASON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$100,000
TALENT 2025 INC$50,000
WEST SHORE FAMILY SUPPORT$25,299
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MASON COUNTY$15,000
CHILDCARE PROVIDERS ASSOC OF MICHIGAN (CPAOM)$10,000
LUDINGTON AREA ARTS COUNCIL$8,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.7M · 11 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +130% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.7M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+130%

+49%

Still filing today

91%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

UW
UNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +37% · 81% of their budget
OA
OAKTREE ACADEMY
6× · 2017–2024 · $727k · revenue +130% · 41% of their budget
YL
YAC LAKE JUMP FUND
6× · 2017–2024 · $311k · revenue +18%

Funded once

MC
MICHIGAN COMMUNITY CAPITALgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +298% · 34% of their budget
CP
CONNEXION POINT INC
one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -73% · 64% of their budget
MC
MASON COUNTY EASTERN SCHOOLS
one grant, 2020 · $26k

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

04Your field

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.

Midland County Child Protection Council

To prevent child abuse and neglect and improve the quality of life for children and families.

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Michigan Child Care Centers Inc

Providing day care for children ranging from two weeks to tweleve years of age

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Mid Michigan Community Action

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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The Michigan Center for Civic Education

To promote and support the development of engaged, responsible citizens. The Michigan Center for Civic Education (MCCE) strengthens constitutional democracy through authentic civic education and professional learning. MCCE advances the…

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Michigan Lakes and Streams

Preservation and protection of michigan inland lakes and streams

Environment

Michigan Casa Inc

Michigan casa, inc. is dedicated to changing the lives of abused and neglected children by advocating for their best interests through establishing, supporting, and expanding quality casa programs throughout the state of michigan to ensure…

Civil Rights

Association for Children's Mental Health

To help all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges.

Health

The Childrens Advocacy Centers of

Our mission is to unify and strengthen michigan's response to child victims of abuse through sustainable growth, collaboration, and empowerment of children's advocacy centers (cacs). our vision is that all of michigan's children will have…

Crime & Legal

Michigan Nonprofit Association

The mission of mna is to serve nonprofits to advance their missions

Unclassified

Macomb County Chamber of Commerce

The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.

Unclassified

Mid-Michigan Children's Museum

To provide a hands-on environment that engages children to use their curiosity and creativity while learning about the wonders of our world.

Arts & Culture

Love Your Neighbor of West Michigan

Following Jesus Christ, who transforms lives, Love Your Neighbor equips our community to love, serve and connect with dignity.

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manistee County Community and the most unlike its peers is Pere Marquette Memorial Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/41

the rest of the field

414/4,783

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.

05the grantee network

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/32

Grantees still filing

23/32

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$1,699,035Human Services$1,173,497Community Improvement$1,139,000Other$683,229Environment$250,000Arts & Culture$108,000Health$25,299Youth Development$10,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation for Muskegon CountyMI76.5× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Consumers Energy Foundation · Great Lakes Castings Corporation · United Way of the Lakeshore · Fremont Area Community Foundation · Birtwistle Family Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · United Way of Mason County · Protein Foundation · Manistee County Community

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 organisation PENNIES FROM HEAVEN 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 382943115 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on UNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 81% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Pennies From Heaven Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pennies From Heaven Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Pennies From Heaven Foundation?

More from the funding graph

PENNIES FROM HEAVEN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Pennies From Heaven Foundation?

More from the funding graph