How much does Siebenthaler Foundation give?

Siebenthaler Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $547,400 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Siebenthaler Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Environment (18%), Religion (17%), Animals (14%).

Who are Siebenthaler Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: St Pauls Episcopal Church ($60k), Traverse Area Recreation & Transportation Trails Inc ($52k), AMVETS Post 114 ($50k).

Does Siebenthaler Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 74% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Siebenthaler Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Siebenthaler Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation, Oleson Foundation, The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation.

Where is Siebenthaler Foundation based?

Siebenthaler Foundation is based in MI.

Siebenthaler Foundation

Siebenthaler Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Siebenthaler Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$547k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$91k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$128kReligion$123kAnimals$96kHuman Services$93kArts & Culture$72kHealth$67kRecreation & Sports$53kEducation$19kOther$0

02FY2023 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k7 grants · $26k
$10k–50k15 grants · $431k
$50k–250k1 grant · $91k

$18,240

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FRIENDS OF GT CONSERVATION DISTRICT	$91,200
K-9'S FOR WARRIORS	$45,600
TART TRAILS	$45,600
MOUNT HOLIDAY INC	$45,600
EPIC OUTREACH	$45,600
AMVETS POST #114	$45,000
CENTENARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH	$36,480
BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$27,360
CANCER CARE	$27,360
GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES	$20,000
UNBOUND	$18,240
SHAKER VILLAGE OF PLEASANT HILL	$18,240
THE CONSERVATION FUND	$18,240
WORLD GOSPEL MISSION	$13,680
ASBURY UNIVERSITY	$13,680

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$280k · 36 repeat orgs$423k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2023, 30 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$280k

$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%

+98%

Still filing today

53%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $422k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

TA
TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $52k · revenue +334%
AP
AMVETS Post 114
7× · 2017–2023 · $50k · revenue +10% · 33% of their budget
GS
GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES
7× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +19%

Funded once

CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $500
HO
Hospice of Michigan Inc
one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +15%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $200 · revenue +98%

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.

Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

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…

Health

The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education

Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society

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.

Animals

Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

Minnesota Land Trust

The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.

Environment

Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture

Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health

Michigan Farmers Market Association

Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.

Food & Nutrition

Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals

Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Grass River Natural Area Inc. 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

33 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. 33 of the 58 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/33

Grantees still filing

26/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$464,170Animals$93,750Human Services$45,240Health$42,480Environment$24,740Arts & Culture$22,490Education$13,680

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.

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.

Grand Traverse Regional Community FoundationMI30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Oleson Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Julius H and Barbara B Beers Family Foundation · William G Janis & Susanne M Janis Family Foundation · The Herrington-Fitch Family Foundation Inc C/O Leslie Lee · Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundation · Hildreth Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Michigan · Hayden 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 Siebenthaler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Siebenthaler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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By state

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