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Pennies From Heaven Foundation
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–21, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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 +129% since the first grant, against +63% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k 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
- OAOAKTREE ACADEMY INC6× · 2017–2024 · $727k · revenue +129% · 41% of their budget
- HEHands Extended Loving People7× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +20% · 29% of their budget
- HTHOME TEAM HOUSING5× · 2017–2021 · $148k · revenue +33% · 37% of their budget
Funded once
- MCMICHIGAN COMMUNITY CAPITALgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +226% · 34% of their budget
- CPCONNEXION POINT INCone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -73% · 64% of their budget
- MCMASON COUNTY EASTERN SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $26k
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.
Christian camps.
To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.
Member programs/services, economic development
The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.
Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Social welfare and issue advocacy
We advance the missions of michigan nonprofit organizations that serve low income individuals and communities through pro bono and low cost legal and other professional services, organizational development, and trusted guidance.
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…
The purpose of the organization is to provide child welfare and supporting services to children, families, and individuals working and living in michigan.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
The west coast chamber exists to be a catalyst for business growth and development, a convener of leaders and influencers, and a champion for a thriving community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manistee County Community Foundation 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
33 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.
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 UNITED WAY OF MASON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN COMMUNITY CAPITAL ↗
- Who funds OAKTREE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Hands Extended Loving People ↗
- Who funds Land Conservancy of West Michigan ↗
- Who funds HOME TEAM HOUSING ↗
- Who funds TALENTFIRST INC FKA TALENT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds MASON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CONNEXION POINT INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE FOOD CLUB ↗
- Who funds SINGLE MOMM ↗
- Who funds WEST SHORE FAMILY SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MANISTEE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds Eagle Village Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MICHIGAN SHORE TO SHORE ↗
- Who funds CHILDCARE PROVIDERS ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds LUDINGTON AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ECHO HIS LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES OVERCOMING VIOLENT ENCO ↗
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: Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Consumers Energy Foundation · Birtwistle Family Foundation · Great Lakes Castings Corporation Foundation · Fremont Area Community Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Dte Energy Foundation · United Way of Mason County · Protein Foundation · United Way of the Lakeshore · Frey 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 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.
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.
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