· Private foundation
Robert W & Eileen E Hesse Memorial Fund
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: 63% of ROBERT W & EILEEN E HESSE MEMORIAL FUND’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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE THEATRE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| FRANKENMUTH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOOD CLUB & KITCH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against -50% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TTEMPLEARTS3× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +385%
- MCMAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS5× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +25%
- MCMID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM3× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- YYMCAone grant, 2024 · $40k
- RMRAUCHHOLZ MEMORIAL LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $10k
- MHMICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCEone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -50%
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 Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
To joyfully bring diverse people together to build community, enhance understanding, advance public storytelling and the arts, and protect our historic buildings.
To entertain, educate and inspire a diverse and expanding regional audiences in the arts, sciences and humanities.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Maintain historical museum
A voice of the building industry in Michigan. The primary purpose is to positively influence the legislative, regulatory and legal issues that affect the industry.
The Historical Society of Michigan will foster in citizens a deeper understanding of and appreciation for all Michigan history through programs and publications; preserve and promote Michigan history through conferences, publications,…
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
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.
To enrich the communities of Southeastern Michigan in fostering excellence and innovation to our community in the performance of orchestral music to educate current and future audiences
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Templearts and the most unlike its peers is Temple Theatre Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 26 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC-SAGINAW ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEMPLEARTS ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS ↗
- Who funds MID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRANKENMUTH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE ↗
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: Saginaw Community Foundation · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Morley Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Yeo Family Foundation · Drsamuel Shaheen Family Foundation · Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Wm McNally Family 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 W & Eileen E Hesse Memorial Fund 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.