· Private foundation
Rodger and Kate Graef Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,626 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $5,626 |
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 (FY17–22, $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.
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
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HCHEINZERLING COMMUNITY3× · 2017–2022 · $143k · revenue +73%
- FHFISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN2× · 2018–2022 · $90k · revenue +221%
- BFBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2022 · $89k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- BWBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +6%
- CHCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTAone grant, 2022 · $100k
- CLCHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION OF MICHIGANgraduatedone 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.
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.
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.
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…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
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…
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…
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.
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,…
Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.
Denver children's home restores hope and health to traumatized children and families through a comprehensive array of therapeutic, educational, and community-based services.
To promote lifetime wellness through essential and innovative treatment and support where individuals are empowered to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
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…
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…
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.
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 field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 HEINZERLING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS AND CAREGIVERS UNITED ↗
- Who funds BEYOND THE GAME ↗
- Who funds DALE K GRAHAM VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AT RISK INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MT CARMEL VETERANS SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds VETERANS RADIO AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
- Who funds TRAIN UP A CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds Renounce Denounce Gang Intervention Program Corporation ↗
- Who funds WORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds RYAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FIT TO RECOVER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SISTERS IN SHELTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SALINE AREA SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Homicide Survivors Inc ↗
- Who funds OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE OF EAST BAY INC ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO VALLEY TEEN CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPECAM INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CREATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 222 Foundation ↗
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: 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.
- Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
- Grandmas Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Community Crisis Services Inc — 4% of income from government
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.