· Private foundation
Roberts P & Ella B Hudson Foundation
Its FY2024 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: 80% of ROBERTS P & ELLA B HUDSON 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOSPICE OF THE EUP | $10,000 |
| SOO THEATRE PROJECT INC | $9,000 |
| SOO LOCKS CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| DIANE PEPPLER RES CENTER | $2,500 |
| GREAT LAKES SHIPWRECK SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| SAULT SHRINE CLUB | $2,500 |
| SAULT AREA ARTS COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE EUP | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| SAULT AREA SCHOOLS | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| BRIMLEY AREA SCHOOLS | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +75% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 21 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- STSOO THEATRE PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +142%
- BCBAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +65%
- SLSOO LOCKS CHILDRENS MUSEUM4× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue ×68
Funded once
- LSLAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $11k
- CCCHIPPEWA COUNTY FAMILY PROJECT INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -17%
- GLGREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +46%
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 historical society of saginaw county is committed to serve the community by telling the continuing story of the people of the saginaw region through exploration, preservation and presentation of their historical and cultural heritage.
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 engage and inspire, encouraging stewardship of wildlife and water.
To provide high quality health care to individuals and community groups in Saginaw, Bay, and other nearby counties. Services are provided without regard to race, beliefs or ability to pay.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
The chippewa area history center works to preserve local history and make it available to the public.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
To preserve, record and maintain the historical information of the area between michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, known as michilimackinac.
Our mission is to make science, technology, engineering, and math (stem) come alive, and our vision is a community where all people value stem to inform decision making and enrich lives. (continued on schedule o)guiding principles: we help…
To provide exceptional health care services for all people in the Upper Great Lakes region regardless of ability to pay.
Enrich community life via the theatre and creative arts.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mymichigan Medical Center Sault and the most unlike its peers is American Legion Post #3. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 64 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 SOO THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BAY CLIFF HEALTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds SOO LOCKS CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MYMICHIGAN MEDICAL CENTER SAULT ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA COUNTY CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR HEALTH SUPPORT SYSTEMSINC ↗
- Who funds SAULT AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA COUNTY FAMILY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE EASTERN UPPER PENINSULA ↗
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: Eup Community Foundation Alliance I · Superior Health Foundation · 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 Roberts P & Ella B Hudson 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.
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