· Private foundation
Santo Maria Frank & John Zanetti Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of SANTO MARIA FRANK & JOHN ZANETTI 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| KELLOGG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| BCACS FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| ALL SPECIES KINSHIP | $55,000 |
| SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| BINDER PARK ZOO | $40,000 |
| BATTLE CREEK ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES | $20,000 |
| ALANO CLUB | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| SHERMAN LAKE YMCA CAMP | $10,000 |
| HAVEN OF REST MISSION | $7,000 |
| HAVEN OF REST MISSION | $7,000 |
| HAVEN OF REST MISSION | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $148k) 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 +71% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
KELLOGG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $505k · revenue +168%
Binder Park Zoological Society Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $355k · revenue +74%
SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $183k · revenue +71%
Funded once
Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Centergraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +35%- HCHERITAGE CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
To apply the principles of workforce development to grow michigan's economy while improving the lives of michigan workers.
KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…
Community financial credit union is a state chartered, not-for-profit, full-service financial institution owned and governed by its membership. at community financial, we are committed to our members and our communities,for over 70 years.…
We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
None
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Battle Creek Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Vineyard Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 29 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 KELLOGG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Binder Park Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALL SPECIES KINSHIP ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE ↗
- Who funds STARR COMMONWEALTH ↗
- Who funds KINGMAN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds VINEYARD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
- Who funds CIR INC ↗
- Who funds ALANO CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds University of 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: Battle Creek Community Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Miller Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Feldpausch Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Burnham Family Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Guido a Binda and Elizabeth H Binda Foundation · Preston S and Barbara J Parish 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 Santo Maria Frank & John Zanetti 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.