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Purtan Family Foundation at a glance

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Purtan Family 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.

$80k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$303kHealth$210kPhilanthropy$210kReligion$40kYouth Development$18kInternational$8kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$408k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SALVATION ARMY$30,000
CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF MI$30,000
NORTHRIDGE CHURCH$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$5,000
MI PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAPITAL DISTRICT YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $3k → 7%NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $5k → 8%NORTHRIDGE CHURCH: $10k → 21%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5k → 21%CAPITAL DISTRICT YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $3k → 7%NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $5k → 8%NORTHRIDGE CHURCH: $6k → 21%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3k → 21%CAPITAL DISTRICT YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $3k → 7%NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $5k → 8%NORTHRIDGE CHURCH: $6k → 21%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $400 → 21%CAPITAL DISTRICT YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $3k → 7%NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $5k → 8%NORTHRIDGE CHURCH: $6k → 21%CAPITAL DISTRICT YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $3k → 7%THE SALVATION ARMY: $37k → 8%NORTHRIDGE CHURCH: $6k → 21%CAPITAL DISTRICT YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $3k → 7%THE SALVATION ARMY: $37k → 8%NORTHRIDGE CHURCH: $6k → 21%THE SALVATION ARMY: $37k → 8%MI PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $5k → 21%THE SALVATION ARMY: $36k → 8%MI PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $3k → 21%THE SALVATION ARMY: $35k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOSP OF MI FOUNDATION: $32k → 21%THE SALVATION ARMY: $31k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOSP OF MI FOUNDATION: $30k → 21%THE SALVATION ARMY: $30k → 8%CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF MI: $30k → 21%THE SALVATION ARMY: $30k → 8%CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF MI: $30k → 21%THE SALVATION ARMY: $30k → 8%CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF MI: $30k → 21%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $200 → 8%CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF MI: $30k → 21%BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INST: $30k → 21%CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF MI: $30k → 21%BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INST: $30k → 21%CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF MI: $30k → 21%BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INST: $30k → 21%CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF MI: $30k → 21%BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INST: $30k → 21%DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 21%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$789k · 9 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$789k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+51%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $62k · revenue +94%
  • TN
    THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +75%
  • CD
    CAPITAL DISTRICT YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • Detroit Historical Societygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +51%
  • PV
    PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · $250 · revenue -34%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $200
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
Paralyzed Veterans of America Mountain States Chapter

The key objective of pva is to take those actions necessary to restore spinal cord injured or diseased veterans' bodies and life potentials as closely as is humanly possible to those americans not suffering spinal cord dysfunction. this is…

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2
Mclaren Port Huron

Mclaren healthcare, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
3
The Cardiac Institute

Our mission is to help people to live longer, healthier lives with dignity, and to use all of our resources to give them everything they expect and deserve in comprehensive cardiovascular care for their families and themselves.

Health
4
The Greater Detroit Health Transition Company

Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…

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5
Trinity Health - Michigan

We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.

Health
6
Mclaren Northern Michigan Foundation

To receive and administer funds to support the mission of mclaren northern michigan and support programs that enhance the well-being of the community.

Health
7
Northern Michigan Hematology and Oncology

Provide professional services for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and infectious disease and related conditions.

Health
8
Mclaren Northern Michigan

Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
9
Paralyzed Veterans of America New England Chapter

The new england chapter, paralyzed veterans of america is a 501(c)(3) non- profit organization and the only congressionally chartered veterans service organization dedicated solely for the benefit and representation of veterans with spinal…

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10
Minnesota Paralyzed Veterans of America

The minnesota paralyzed veterans of america (mnpva) a minnesota nonprofit organization, is an officially recognized paralyzed veterans of america chapter. mnpva assists veterans with spinal cord injuries or spinal cord diseases, such as ms…

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11
Mount Carmel Health Plan Inc

We, mount carmel and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mount carmel health plan is a member of mount carmel and trinity health.

Health
12
Disabled American Veterans Department of Minnesota Inc

To assist in providing for the rehabilitation and continuing welfare of america's disabled veterans, their families, dependents and survivors.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $303,100 · OtherSALVATION ARMYCHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF MI: $210,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF MINORTHRIDGE CHURCH: $40,000 · OtherNORTHRIDGE CHURCH+3 more: $25,200 · OtherBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $120,000 · HealthBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER …CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $62,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHI…THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $20,250 · HealthTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR F…+1 more: $250 · HealthSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $8,400 · ReligionDetroit Historical Society: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$578,300Health$202,500Religion$8,400Arts & Culture$5,000

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 budgetBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $62,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $20,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCAPITAL DISTRICT YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $17,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $8,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $7,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDetroit Historical Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $250 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 BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL DISTRICT YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Purtan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Purtan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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