· Private foundation
Richard Barton Law Memorial Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SVSU FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA OF THE GREAT LAKES BAY REGION | $2,500 |
| BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| EAGLE VILLAGE | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN | $2,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS GLB REGION | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $2,000 |
| BLOOD CANCER FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN | $2,000 |
| LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $1,500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN | $1,500 |
| BAY ARENAC ISD EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
27 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- MBMCLAREN BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +63%
- BBBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +9%
- EVEagle Village Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- CLCHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FD OF MICHone grant, 2017 · $2k
- CMCS MOTT CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $2k
- NMN MICHIGAN MOBILE CHILD ADVOCACYone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Collective bargaining and representation
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.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
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 promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
None
To instill in young people; values, develop leadership skills, and ethical character as expressed in the scout oath and law.
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
To apply the principles of workforce development to grow michigan's economy while improving the lives of michigan workers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 32 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 MCLAREN BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region ↗
- Who funds Eagle Village Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY SERVICES RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF BAY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
- Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ALLIANCE FC ↗
- Who funds YWCA GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
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: Consumers Energy Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Nickless Family Charitable Foundation · Gougeon Employees Foundation · United Way of Bay County · Alden and Vada Dow Fund · Saginaw Community Foundation · Midland Area Community Foundation · Thompson Margaret C Charitable · Allison K Short Foundation · United Way of Saginaw County
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 Barton Law Memorial Trust 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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