· Private foundation
Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of ROBERT & JEANINE DAGENAIS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOOLCRAFT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN TECHOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| TRILLIUM HOUSE | $5,000 |
| TRILLIUM HOUSE | $5,000 |
| PREGNACY SERVICES OF DELTA COUNTY | $5,000 |
| LAKE ANTOINE PARK PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| M&M CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC | $5,000 |
| LAKE ANTOINE PARK PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| BREITUNG TOWNSHIP SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
| GREAT LAKES SPORTS & RECREATION CLB | $3,000 |
| UP FOSTER GRANDPARENT PROGRAM | $3,000 |
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, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +45% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- THTRILLIUM HOUSE INC4× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +73%
- SMSchoolcraft Memorial Hospital2× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +45%
- NLNORTHERN LIGHTS YMCA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $29k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- WWISCOone grant, 2020 · $18k
- EFESCANABA FAN CLUBone grant, 2018 · $6k
- OSOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
Promote the improvement of dental health in washtenaw county, mi
State of michigan snonmobile trails and atv trails groomed and maintained. hunter safety courses conducted. fish plants made in public streams
Maintain & improve pere marquette michigan area snowmobile trails.
Community development
Operate and maintain public golf course in the detroit lakes area; provide recreation for all ages
To provide recreational ski trail to area residents and to visitors to gogebic county, michigan. to provide cross country ski lessons and to hold other fitness conscious events during the year.
The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.
To maintain and develop a museum in iron county, mi. to collect,house and preserve artifacts in intreprtive exhibits, which will show the economic, occupational, social and cultural development of iron county and its relationship to the…
Improvement of the business conditions of agriculture and trade in the mississippi delta communities and in industrial development in the mississippi delta
To preserve, record and maintain the historical information of the area between michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, known as michilimackinac.
Channels individual, member, and corporate gifts for benefit of community.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Lights Ymca Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dar Boys & Girls Club. 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 30 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 168 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 TRILLIUM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM BONIFAS FINE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY SERVICES OF DELTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BELLIN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds IXL HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF LAPEER CO ↗
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: Superior Health Foundation · Edward J Sackerson Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula · The Donald and Audrey Anderson Foundation · John and Melissa Besse Foundation · Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Marquette County · West End Health Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Dte Energy Foundation · Daniel J Kobasic Foundation · M & M Area Community 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 Robert & Jeanine Dagenais 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% 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.