· Private foundation
Savage 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN | $2,500 |
| ST JOHN STUDENT PARISH | $2,500 |
| ADVENT HOUSE MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| LANSING CITY RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| CAPITAL AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ELE'S PLACE | $1,000 |
| ROSE HILL CENTER | $1,000 |
| HAVEN HOUSE | $1,000 |
| PECKHAM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MGT | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GLGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +37%
- SCSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +92%
- AHADVENT HOUSE MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- CACAPITAL AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2025 · $1k
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.
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.
To provide comprehensive, high quality hospice services to meet medical, nursing, psychosocial, and spiritual needs for individuals facing the last stages of life, as well as emotional care for their families and friends; to conduct…
To eliminate sub-standard housing and homelessness from lapeer county.
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
The lansing art gallery & education center provides public awareness, education and enjoyment of the visual arts by promoting the work of michigan artists.
Lighthouse mi endeavors to build equitable communities and alleviate poverty in partnership with and in service to individuals, families, and organizations.
Public library
To act as a vehicle to provide access to organized systems of health care and improve the health status of individuals in the community.
to advance housing stability and affordable opportunities for low income people especially those in crisis or at risk individuals and families within Lenawee County
To support lighthouse mi in their mission to build equitable communities and alleviate poverty in partnership with and in service to individuals, families, and organizations.
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds ADVENT HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CITY RESCUE MISSION OF LANSING MICH ↗
- Who funds ROSE HILL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BURCHAM HILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANSING SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Capital Region Community Foundation · Ingham County Home Association · Lansing Rotary Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Savage Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Savage Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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