· Private foundation
Sigma Gamma 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $43k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF DETROIT | $55,000 |
| BOLDI EXCEPTIONAL YOUTH SERVICES | $55,000 |
| FAR THERAPEUTIC ARTS AND RECREATION | $12,500 |
| THE FOWLER CENTER | $10,000 |
| PENRICKTON CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| THE FAMILY CENTER | $10,000 |
| FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC | $9,000 |
| SIGMA GAMMA ASSOCATION | $8,500 |
| KIDS ON THE GO | $7,324 |
| THERAPY RANCH | $5,000 |
| BANBURY CROSS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER | $3,000 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- DIDETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN3× · 2021–2023 · $201k · revenue +10%
- KOKIDS ON THE GO3× · 2023–2025 · $33k · revenue +32%
- FCFULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue ×15
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $69k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $7k
- DHDAN HUGHES OF OPTIMIDEAS LLCone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Help disabled children
The Field Center provided services to over 20 children with motor disorders through the use of the feldenkrais methods and trained over 10 practitioners to apply this method
Educational
To improve the quality of life of children and adults with special needs through equine activites and therapies resulting in a more independent life in society.
Provides occupational, physical, and speech therapies.
Comprehensive therapeutic services to individuals from birth to twenty one years of age with handicap conditions. the center offers physical, occupational, and speech therapy and visual/hearing services to those in the tri state area.
The friendship circle is a unique organization with a refreshing approach to helping families of children with special needs.
To provide year round, high-quality education, nursing care and therapies in an environment for children of all abilities, with dignity, while giving families the ability to become financially independent and children the opportunity to…
Care and teaching of developmentally disabled children and infants
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Institute for Children and the most unlike its peers is Sigma Gamma Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 19 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 DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON THE GO ↗
- Who funds FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE FOWLER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SIGMA GAMMA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Penrickton Center for Blind Children ↗
- Who funds BANBURY CROSS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
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 · Patrick and Christie Scoggin Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Sigma Gamma 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.