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· Private foundation

Rodger and Kate Graef Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Health$931kHuman Services$626kPublic Benefit$216kEducation$201kReligion$158kArts & Culture$147kYouth Development$105kCrime & Legal$102kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,626
Median grant
2
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$5,626
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$5,626
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $548k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RYAN HOUSE: $20k → 11%STEPS TO RECOVERY HOMES: $5k → 14%HOMICIDE SURVIVORS INC: $20k → 15%SET ME FREE PROJECT: $10k → 12%5CITIES HOMELESS COALITION: $5k → 12%DALE K GRAHAM VETERANS FOUNDATION: $6k → 13%GRANDMAS PLACE INC: $10k → 11%MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS: $50k → 14%FRIENDS OF ABILITIES FIRST: $5k → 15%CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMILTON CO: $36k → 12%SISTERS IN SHELTER: $26k → 12%FEMERGY: $16k → 15%THE OASIS HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $20k → 12%NEVADA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%FOR THE GIRLS INC: $3k → 8%NEW LIFE MISSION: $26k → 15%RYAN HOUSE: $9k → 11%CAROL'S KITCHEN: $2k → 11%CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $26k → 13%GRANDMA'S PLACE: $3k → 11%PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER OF SALT LAKE C: $16k → 8%HEINZERLING COMMUNITY: $116k → 15%SILVER LINING LEGACY: $10k → 14%DALE K GRAHAM VETERANS FOUNDATION: $56k → 13%HEINZERLING FOUNDATION: $18k → 15%JUNIOR BLIND OF AMERICA: $5k → 14%HEINZERLING FOUNDATION: $9k → 15%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%DREAM NORTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$980k · 20 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
113

Total granted

$980k
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+19%

Still filing today

80%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • HC
    HEINZERLING COMMUNITY
    3× · 2017–2022 · $143k · revenue +73%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN
    2× · 2018–2022 · $90k · revenue +221%
  • BF
    BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $89k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • BW
    BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +6%
  • CH
    CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • CL
    CHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION OF MICHIGANgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +90%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
2
Childsafe Colorado Inc

Mission: our mission is to break the cycle and heal the childhood trauma resulting from abuse and neglect with specialized treatment, education and community outreach. we believe in a comprehensive, community-based approach to the problem…

Crime & Legal
3
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
4
The Wichita Children's Home

To assure the safety and well-being of children and to create heathly families by providing: assessment and intervention services; a temporary home for children at risk of abuse, neglect, or homelessness; education, prevention and advocacy…

Human Services
5
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
6
New Alternatives Inc

New alternatives, inc. is committed to providing abused and negelected youth with hope and opportunities through a comprehensive array of social, residential and mental health services that we provide in san diego and orange county.

7
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…

Human Services
8
Teamability Inc

Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.

Education
9
Denver Children's Home

Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.

Health
10
Wellmore Inc

To promote lifetime wellness through essential and innovative treatment and support where individuals are empowered to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.

Health
11
The District of Columbia Children's Advocacy Center

Safe shores provides survivor-centered intervention, hope and healing for children and families affected by abuse, trauma and violence in the district of columbia, and works to prevent and end child abuse and neglect through promising…

Crime & Legal
12
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Triple H Youth Ranch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMilitary Veterans SupportCancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Domestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesAddiction Recovery ServicesCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Christian Missionary Organi…Women & Girls Leadership De…Community FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Arts CentersSenior Support ServicesSchool District FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsElementary Literacy TutoringAffordable Housing Developm…Health Access Advocacy and …Christian Youth Camps
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%31%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/116
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,449

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.

04the grantee network

108 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 135 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/108
Grantees still filing
72/108
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC — $145,500 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INCCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA — $100,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTAVIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC — $50,000 · OtherBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC — $88,545 · OtherBARNABAS FOUNDATION INCWOMEN AT RISK INTERNATIONAL INC — $60,790 · OtherMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER — $60,000 · Other+56 more — $663,598 · Other+56 moreHEINZERLING COMMUNITY — $142,780 · Human ServicesHEINZERLING COMMUNITYDALE K GRAHAM VETERANS FOUNDATION INC — $61,790 · Human ServicesDALE K GRAHAM VETERAN…MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS — $50,000 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN ABILITY PART…THE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY INC — $35,790 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCA…RYAN HOUSE — $29,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC — $25,790 · Human ServicesNEW LIFE MISSION — $25,790 · Human ServicesSISTERS IN SHELTER — $25,790 · Human ServicesHomicide Survivors Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $20,000 · Human Services+15 more — $115,625 · Human Services+15 moreBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · HealthBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY…CHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN — $100,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $55,790 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S …WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND FOUNDATION — $35,790 · HealthWORLD SERVICES FOR …FIT TO RECOVER INC — $25,790 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $25,626 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $25,626 · HealthSACRAMENTO VALLEY TEEN CHALLENGE INC — $20,000 · HealthNEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC — $20,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $19,500 · Health+8 more — $73,676 · Health+8 moreFISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN — $90,000 · Public BenefitWARRIORS AND CAREGIVERS UNITED — $70,500 · Public BenefitVETERANS RADIO AMERICA INC — $58,000 · Public BenefitBEYOND THE GAME — $65,790 · Youth DevelopmentTRAIN UP A CHILD INC — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE TEXAS SUPREMACY OF MUSIC AND ARTS CONSERVATORY — $15,790 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC — $15,790 · Youth DevelopmentBACK 2 SCHOOL AMERICA — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $5,000 · Youth Development222 Foundation — $20,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION — $15,790 · EducationTHE FRIENDSHIP INITIATIVE INC — $15,790 · EducationFriends of Liahona Inc — $15,790 · EducationCHARACTERS OF CHARACTER NFP INC — $15,790 · EducationHOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,790 · EducationVEGAS STRONGER — $10,000 · EducationBEACON CHARTER SCHOOL CORPORATION — $10,000 · EducationMICHIGAN OVARIAN CANCER ALLIANCE — $10,000 · EducationNEWBERRY COLLEGE — $10,000 · Education+3 more — $12,500 · EducationTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND — $50,000 · PhilanthropyNMDP FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyCLINTON COUNTY FOUNDATION — $15,790 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $15,790 · PhilanthropyWELD ELVES — $10,000 · PhilanthropyGRACIOUS GROUNDS INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHSIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,168,433Human Services$552,355Health$501,798Public Benefit$218,500Youth Development$162,370Education$151,450Philanthropy$129,080

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHEINZERLING COMMUNITY — $142,780 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN — $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN — $90,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC — $88,545 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWARRIORS AND CAREGIVERS UNITED — $70,500 over 3y, 69% of budgetBEYOND THE GAME — $65,790 over 2y, 17% of budgetDALE K GRAHAM VETERANS FOUNDATION INC — $61,790 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetWOMEN AT RISK INTERNATIONAL INC — $60,790 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER — $60,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetVETERANS RADIO AMERICA INC — $58,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $55,790 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRAIN UP A CHILD INC — $40,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetRenounce Denounce Gang Intervention Program Corporation — $35,790 over 1y, 18% of budgetWORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND FOUNDATION — $35,790 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY INC — $35,790 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFOOD GATHERERS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRYAN HOUSE — $29,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFIT TO RECOVER INC — $25,790 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC — $25,790 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEW LIFE MISSION — $25,790 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSISTERS IN SHELTER — $25,790 over 1y, 22% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $25,626 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $25,626 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSALINE AREA SOCIAL SERVICE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHomicide Survivors Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE OF EAST BAY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO VALLEY TEEN CHALLENGE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHOPECAM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CREATURE CONSERVANCY — $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget222 Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $19,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC — $15,790 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEMERGY — $15,790 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetPREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER OF SALT LAKE INC — $15,790 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION — $15,790 over 1y, 48% of budgetTHE TEXAS SUPREMACY OF MUSIC AND ARTS CONSERVATORY — $15,790 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetCLINTON COUNTY FOUNDATION — $15,790 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP INITIATIVE INC — $15,790 over 1y, 14% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC — $15,790 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Liahona Inc — $15,790 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetSALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY — $15,790 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Harry a and Margaret D Towsley FoundationMI19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · United Way of Washtenaw County · Union Pacific Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Real Estate One Charitable Foundation · The Buhr Foundation · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · Food Gatherers · The Carls 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 Rodger and Kate Graef Family 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.

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no gov · 60%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc34% of income from government
  • Grandmas Place Inc12% of income from government
  • Community Crisis Services Inc4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 135 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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