· Private foundation
River City 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k5 grants · $550k
- $250k+2 grants · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500,004 |
| MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER | $200,002 |
| HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN INC | $100,009 |
| JOHN BALL ZOO | $100,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY | $100,000 |
| NORTH KENT CONNECT | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $673k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MFMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $971k · revenue +644%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $811k · revenue +10%
- JBJOHN BALL ZOO5× · 2020–2025 · $808k · revenue +150%
Funded once
- MFMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $153k · revenue +52%
- TLTHE LUKE CLINICgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +164%
- HWHURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +89%
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 nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Creating healthy communities - together
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Creating healthy communities - together
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Equest Center for Therapeutic Riding Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 42 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 GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN BALL ZOO ↗
- Who funds BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Chicago Community Trust ↗
- Who funds MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds GERMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL CHICAGO NFP ↗
- Who funds HOME REPAIR SERVICES OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE LUKE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Equest Center for Therapeutic Riding Inc ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds DEGAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FUTURES ↗
- Who funds WASHTENAW HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds BLUE LAKE FINE ARTS CAMP ↗
- Who funds DA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S ↗
- Who funds GREENHILLS SCHOOL ↗
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 · The Meijer Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · The Korff Foundation · Ufp Industries 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 River City 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to River City Foundation?
Find your warmest path to River City Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.