· Private foundation
Richard a Mansfield & Erlene Mansfield
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDLAND SOCCER CLUB | $5,000 |
| SAGINAW CHORAL SOCIETY | $4,897 |
| SAGINAW BAY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $4,897 |
| BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,265 |
| CARUTHERSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,265 |
| SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,265 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,265 |
| SAGINAW PUBLIC LIBRARIES FDN | $3,265 |
| LEAD | $3,162 |
| CARUTHERSVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,632 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BRIDGEPORT | $1,632 |
| CHILDRENS ZOO AT CELEBRATION SQUARE | $1,632 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,632 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 94% of your 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 +31% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- SCSAGINAW CHORAL SOCIETY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +31%
- SPSaginaw Public Libraries Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +71% · 42% of their budget
- BHBRIDGEPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- OSOUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $5k
- PCPARTNERSHIP CENTER OF SAGINAWone grant, 2022 · $5k
- YOYMCA of SAGINAWone grant, 2020 · $4k
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 historical society of saginaw county is committed to serve the community by telling the continuing story of the people of the saginaw region through exploration, preservation and presentation of their historical and cultural heritage.
To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.
The Betterment of the lives of stray, owned and abandoned companion animals in Saginaw County, MI. Our county has over 20,000 households living below the federal poverty guidelines that own at least one pet. We are their safety net. We…
Rescue and adopt domestic animals. Low cost spay and neuter programs. Prevent animal abuse.
The Historical Society of Michigan will foster in citizens a deeper understanding of and appreciation for all Michigan history through programs and publications; preserve and promote Michigan history through conferences, publications,…
Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.
To provide care and refuge for animals in need.
To protect and nurture companion animals and enrich the lives of people who love them.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Creating magical and memorable experiences through the power of symphonic music. Our Orchestra performs five live concerts per season at the Temple Theatre in downtown Saginaw.
Animal shelter - provide a safe haven for animals without homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saginaw Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bridgeport Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 21 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 SAGINAW CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Public Libraries Foundation ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CARUTHERSVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Midland County ↗
- Who funds SVRC Industries 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: Frank N Andersen Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Richard a Mansfield & Erlene Mansfield 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.