· Private foundation
Robert Bollinger Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATSKILL AGRARIAN ALLIANCE | $65,000 |
| RUTH ELLIS CENTER | $50,000 |
| AL FORNEY CENTER | $50,000 |
| NSO | $50,000 |
| DETROIT DOG RESCUE | $25,000 |
| CATSKILL CENTER | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% 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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
RUTH ELLIS CENTER3× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +23%- CACATSKILLS AGRARIAN ALLIANCE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +26%
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC3× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- NSNEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGone grant, 2023 · $51k
- NLNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND NYCone grant, 2020 · $50k
- CFCAPUCHIN FRANCISCAN PROVINCE OF ST JOSEPHone grant, 2020 · $40k
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.
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.
The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.
Noah project is a no-kill animal shelter dedicated to the rescue of abused, abandoned and unwanted animals. its mission is to not allow a healthy, adoptable dog or cat that is accepted at the center to be destroyed.
To shelter and find forever homes for homeless dogs and cats.
The marshmallow animal shelter provides programs and services that aid animals and benefit the animal/human partnership.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance to stray/unwanted animals in the metro detroit area. provide adoption services for families looking to adopt and care for an animal.
Rdf provides superior rescue care and foster housing to diverse domestic and exotic animals with a goal of finding them forever homes.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.
The mission of the michigan animal rescue league is to provide the highest quality of life to dogs and cats through rescue, medical care, socialization and behavioral support, short- and long-term sanctuary, adoption, and community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alternatives for Girls and the most unlike its peers is Paws Unlimited Foundation Inc. 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 20 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 NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds RUTH ELLIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATSKILLS AGRARIAN ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Rebel Dogs Detroit Inc ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds PAWS UNLIMITED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS 1 HEART ↗
- Who funds ROSEMARY FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER OF SCHOHARIE VALLEY 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: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Robert Bollinger Foundation Inc 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.
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