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Glenn Shaw Family Foundation Inc
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIGER VILLAGE | $43,000 |
| HAVEN HOMES OF DETROIT | $25,000 |
| HUB61 | $20,000 |
| SIX FEET OVER | $12,000 |
| PLYMOUTH FOSTER CARE CLOSET | $10,000 |
| WE WALK THE LINE | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S CHRUCH ADVERTISING | $10,000 |
| VETERANS RADIO AMERICA | $10,000 |
| WAYNE FORD CIVIC LEAGUE | $7,500 |
| KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS | $7,500 |
| LIGHT HOUSE HOME MISSION | $7,500 |
| MICHIGAN PIT BULL EDUCATION PROJECT | $5,534 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,195 |
| UP HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% 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.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 14 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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
- HHHAVEN HOMES OF DETROIT2× · 2024–2025 · $80k · revenue -7%
- LLLIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER3× · 2021–2024 · $37k · revenue +199%
- NDNOTRE DAME COUNCIL 3021 K OF C3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue -3% · 43% of their budget
Funded once
- SMST MARYS CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $130k
- SLST LEO'S CHURCH SOUP KITCHENone grant, 2024 · $40k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue +40%
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.
Youth baseball and softball recreational league
To provide a food pantry in southeast kent county, michigan serving some of the most impoverished communities in southeast kent county. to provide holistic aid to our neighbors in need, supplying them with the food and personal care items…
Family network desires to serve the greater wyoming, mi area by providing food, resources and services to people in need.
Running a thrift store for low income famalies in the leelanau county area of michigan.
MI Just Cause is committed to serving chronically disenfranchised men in the City of Lansing. Our target demographic is young men aging out of foster care, those on parole or probation for non-violent offenses, and the habitually homeless.…
Our work assist physically challenged individuals with resources, transportation and caregiver assistance
The Severe Weather Network (SWN) partners with community organizations, agencies, and faith communities to provide emergency, overnight refuge during the winter months for people experiencing homelessness in Livingston County. SWN also…
Veterans helping veterans swmi foundation mission statement veterans helping veterans swmi foundation's mission is to empower and support veterans in southwest michigan by fostering a community of camaraderie, resilience and services. we…
The children's center's mission is to help children and families shape their own futures.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Down Syndrome Support Team Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pr Kids. 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 13 years old; the field is 13. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 86 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 HAVEN HOMES OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds LIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds WHISPERING MEADOWS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME COUNCIL 3021 K OF C ↗
- Who funds ST LEOS SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds FALLEN AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS FUND ↗
- Who funds WAYNE-FORD CIVIC LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds SIX FEET OVER ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME SUPPORT TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS RADIO AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN FOSTER CARE CLOSET ↗
- Who funds MI WORK MATTERS ↗
- Who funds PINK FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STEP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN PIT BULL EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Barton Malow Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Glenn Shaw Family Foundation 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.
- Whispering Meadows Ranch Inc — 1% of income from government
- Flagler County Free Clinic Inc — 0% 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.
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