· Private foundation
Answer Health Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OASIS OF HOPE CENTER | $4,000 |
| KIDS FOOD BASKET | $4,000 |
| OUR KITCHEN TABLE | $4,000 |
| EXALTA HEALTH | $4,000 |
| AREA AGENCY ON AGING OF WESTERN MICHIGAN INC | $2,000 |
| MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| WOMEN AT RISK INTERNATIONAL INC | $2,000 |
| WEDGEWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $2,000 |
| BRODYS BE CAFE LLC | $2,000 |
| GUIDING LIGHT | $2,000 |
| BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $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 (FY20–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +12%
- HIHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +25%
- AAAREA AGENCY ON AGING OF WESTERN MICHIGAN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- NKNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $900 · revenue +93%
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 michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
Hope is a not-for-profit interdenominational christian medical, dental, and social service organization. hope's goal is to provide compassionate and practical help, ministering to the whole person with dignity and respect. this includes…
Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.
None
Agewell services mission is to promote healthy aging and maximize independence through nutrition, wellness, and supportive services in the community.
Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.
To operate and manage according to law and applicable regulations, a certified home for the ages for qualified residents of Kalamazoo county and its surrounding counties.
We bring food to neighbors, help vulnerable people find home, and provide empowering employment through our community-supported social enterprise and collaborative partnerships.the 2023 990 was for 10/1-12/31/23 due to an accounting period…
The African Resource Center informs connects and equips African immigrants in West Michigan with people and resources to foster a flourishing community in which recent African immigrants can prosper emotionally economically and socially.
Distribution of food to the needy
Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. the organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Intervention Services and the most unlike its peers is National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OUR KITCHEN TABLE ↗
- Who funds AREA AGENCY ON AGING OF WESTERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AT RISK INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS OF HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BE CAFE ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc ↗
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 · Corewell Health Group Return · The Meijer Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Barnabas Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Answer Health 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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