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Re Olds Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $168k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| WOLDUMAR NATURE CENTER | $25,000 |
| CHARLOTTE SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS | $15,000 |
| HIGHFIELDS | $15,000 |
| CHILD & FAMILY CHARITIES | $12,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS-LANSING | $12,000 |
| WILDSIDE REHABILITATION & EDUCATION | $12,000 |
| RE OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM | $12,000 |
| EVERETT HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $10,000 |
| GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| MITTEN MISFITS FARM SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| EXPERIENTIAL INK | $9,000 |
| WAI-IAM INC | $9,000 |
| CANTER MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 94% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
80 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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
- ICINGHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY7× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +64%
- GLGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +37%
- CAChild and Family Charities2× · 2022–2024 · $62k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- LPLANSING PROMISE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k
- ABANNIE'S BIG NATURE LESSON2× · 2022–2023 · $45k
- LPLANSING PROMISE FOR LANSING SAVEone grant, 2023 · $28k
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.
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…
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.
Public library
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
Lansing Promise helps students in gaining access to higher education through readiness and scholarships.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special
Works to end environmental injustice by empowering communities at the grassroots level.the corporation is organzied exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including for such purposes, the makeing of…
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
To advocate for, educate, and assist our target populations. our services address the needs of many different people, but we continue to target our services to older adults and persons with disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advent House Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rescue of Southern Sudan Village People. 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 138 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 INGHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Child and Family Charities ↗
- Who funds Allen Neighborhood Center ↗
- Who funds HIGHFIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Wildside Rehabilitation And Education Center ↗
- Who funds WAI-IAM INC ↗
- Who funds LANSING ART GALLERY & EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SMALL TALK CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVET COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT LANSING ↗
- Who funds MITTEN MISFITS FARM SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Reach Studio Art Center ↗
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: Capital Region Community Foundation · Joe D Pentecost Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Lansing Economic Area Partnership · Lansing Rotary Foundation · Jackson Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · Desk Drawer Fund · United Way of South Central Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · Greater Lansing Destination Development 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 Re Olds 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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