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Rodger and Kate Graef Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest; 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.
04the grantee network

108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesSISTERS IN SHELTER: $25,790 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC: $25,790 · Human ServicesNEW LIFE MISSION: $25,790 · Human ServicesOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHomicide Survivors 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 Heart Association Inc: $25,626 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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 DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC: $15,790 · Youth DevelopmentTHE TEXAS SUPREMACY OF MUSIC AND ARTS CONSERVATORY: $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 · EducationTHE FRIENDSHIP INITIATIVE INC: $15,790 · EducationCHARACTERS OF CHARACTER NFP INC: $15,790 · EducationHOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,790 · EducationFriends of Liahona Inc: $15,790 · EducationEDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION: $15,790 · EducationBEACON CHARTER SCHOOL CORPORATION: $10,000 · EducationMICHIGAN OVARIAN CANCER ALLIANCE: $10,000 · EducationVEGAS STRONGER: $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 · PhilanthropyGRACIOUS GROUNDS INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWELD ELVES: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMILTON COUNTY INC: $35,790 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWORLD SERVICES FOR THE BLIND FOUNDATION: $35,790 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRenounce Denounce Gang Intervention Program Corporation: $35,790 over 1y, 18% of budgetFOOD GATHERERS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRYAN HOUSE: $29,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSISTERS IN SHELTER: $25,790 over 1y, 22% 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 budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,626 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $25,626 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSALINE AREA SOCIAL SERVICE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CREATURE CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetWINGS PROGRAM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE OF EAST BAY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget222 Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSACRAMENTO VALLEY TEEN CHALLENGE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHomicide Survivors Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHOPECAM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $19,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP INITIATIVE INC: $15,790 over 1y, 14% of budgetCHILD'S PATH INC: $15,790 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPASSIONIST EARTH & SPIRIT CENTER IN: $15,790 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER OF SALT LAKE INC: $15,790 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $15,790 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLINTON COUNTY FOUNDATION: $15,790 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,790 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEMERGY: $15,790 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA PLAINS INC: $15,790 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERA BIRMINGHAM INC: $15,790 over 1y, 2.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Harry a and Margaret …United Way for Southe…United Way of Washten…Union Pacific Foundat…Community Foundation …Ann Arbor Area Commun…Ford PhilanthropyReal Estate One Chari…The Buhr FoundationJames a and Faith Kni…Food GatherersThe Carls Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rodger and Kate Graef Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rodger and Kate Graef Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 135 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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