· Private foundation
Robert and Sharon Grooters 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $7,000 |
| BAY HARBOR CHURCH | $5,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WEST MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| GREAT LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| BAY HARBOR CLASSIC CAR & BOAT FESTIVAL | $1,570 |
| HELPING HANDS INC | $1,000 |
| Bay Harbor Church | $200 |
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 (FY23–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
10 repeat relationships — 5 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
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- MHMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WEST MICHIGAN5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +9%
- HHHELPING HANDS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +99%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2021–2023 · $1k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- MSMAULE STEM CELL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2024 · $39k · 64% of their budget
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF THE HORSELESS CARRIAGEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +225%
- CTCROOKED TREE ARTS CENTERone grant, 2024 · $3k
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 GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
To expand equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County and champion solutions through funding, education and advocacy.
The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.
Providing patient support, community connections, education and advocacy.
To provide, promote and develop health education and healthy lifestyle awareness to members of the Mankato Clinic service area.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
Pursuing healthier lives for the people of the Sauk Valley.
Investigate ways to make remote communications and monitoring of patients cost effective and practical. this includes evaluation of both traditional and novel uses of various audio, video and data acquisition systems for communication and…
To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Supporting the region serviced by the area hospital The foundation raises funds to purchase the most highly advanced equipment along with funding educational and operational programs that enhance the delivery of health care in Northeastern…
The Glenn H. Curtiss Museum is an educational and cultural institution that collects, preserves, and interprets transportation modes and regional history, and celebrates the innovations and accomplishments of Glenn Hammond Curtiss.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Foundation of West Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Genevieve and Donald S Gilmore Fdn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 30 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 MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MAULE STEM CELL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds BAY HARBOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVIEVE AND DONALD S GILMORE FDN ↗
- Who funds KIERSTENS RIDE ↗
- Who funds Conductive Learning Center of North America ↗
- Who funds THE JT MESTDAGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Brazoria County ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST 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.
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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 and Sharon Grooters 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.