· Public charity
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Outstate Mi Inc
Mission: to create, find and support programs that directly improve the health and well being of children
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OUTSTATE MI INC’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF WM | $459,453 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF MID MICH | $263,158 |
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 (FY19–20, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 10 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 FY2021, 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
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES WESTERN MICHIGAN4× · 2018–2021 · $976k · revenue +111% · 29% of their budget
- RMRonald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan4× · 2018–2021 · $560k · revenue +104% · 40% of their budget
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC3× · 2018–2020 · $135k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- CHCOVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $36k · revenue -6%
- WMWEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +69%
- FBFood Bank of Eastern Michiganone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -9%
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.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.
To strengthen, nuture and empower children and families for a brighter future by providing programs that preserve the dignity and enhance the well-being of families throughout michigan's upper peninsula, in a caring, compassionate and…
We strive to ensure the safety and well-being of children, youth, adults, and families in times of crisis, challenge, and life transition.
To promote a violence free atmosphere from domestic and sexual violence in which survivors can recognize their options to have the opportunity to continue living violence free and regain their sense of self-worth; to educate and raise…
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
Kids space is a child focused center that provides and coordinates professional on-site medical treatment, forensic interviews, and mental health services for child abuse victims, their non-offending caregivers, and victims of sexual…
Michigan casa, inc. is dedicated to changing the lives of abused and neglected children by advocating for their best interests through establishing, supporting, and expanding quality casa programs throughout the state of michigan to ensure…
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.
Choices of manistee county, inc. provides emergency shelter, crisis intervention, counseling, advocacy, and education to survivors of domestic violence in manistee county, empowering survivors to achieve safety and self-determination.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Portland Community Fund. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 28 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 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES WESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE LAKESHORE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MUSKEGON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds THE FLINT DIAPER BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS HQ ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds HAND2HAND ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BRANCH COUNTY COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S ASSESSMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds DA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF CHEBOYGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds BASE CAMP URBAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Whaley Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN WEST MICHIGAN ↗
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: Consumers Energy Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Cdv5 Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Frankenmuth Insurance Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Fremont Area Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Muskegon County · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc
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 Ronald McDonald House Charities of Outstate Mi Inc 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.