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South Haven Community Foundation
To enrich the community by cultivating a spirit of giving and investing in education, arts, culture and economic development through partnerships, contributions, grants, and scholarships.
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.
The 20 grants below total $199,940 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $259,918 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $59,978 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH HAVEN SCOTT CLUB | $25,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $20,000 |
| MICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM | $14,000 |
| SOUTH HAVEN REGIONAL BUSINESS HUB | $10,000 |
| WE CARE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| VAN BUREN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN FLYWHEELERS MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| SOUTH HAVEN AREA EMERGENCY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE PULLMAN INC | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN | $9,540 |
| LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY MUSEUM | $9,200 |
| SOUTH HAVEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $9,150 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $9,050 |
| COLLECTIVE MESS | $8,000 |
| BEAUTIFY PULLMAN | $7,500 |
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, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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
- MMMICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM INC4× · 2022–2025 · $78k · revenue +24%
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC2× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue -19%- WCWE CARE INC3× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue -1%
Funded once
- BIBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACKone grant, 2024 · $38k
- SSSENIOR SERVICES OF VAN BUREN COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue 0%
- GVGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $11k
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.
Maintain historical museum
To promote historical study and preserve the lighthouse museum
To preserve the knowledge, skills and technology involved with the maintenance and operation of steam locomotives and to educate the public about the enormous impact that these machines had in the economic development of owosso and the…
To be a center for the interpretation of history, design, and innovation that connects and inspires the community and enthusiasts around the world. this is accomplished through programming, active collecting, and the display of vehicles,…
To provide a hands-on environment that engages children to use their curiosity and creativity while learning about the wonders of our world.
The mission of the museum is to propagate our history through preservation, education, & innovation to inspire wonder in our past and foster cultural understanding today and in the future.
To promote the education and advancement of art in the city of south bend, st. joseph county, and surrounding areas.
Natural and cultural history interpretation and preservation
The organization provides services that promote the growth and professionalism of the museum community and advocates on that community's behalf.
To inspire a love for learning in science, technology, engineering, math, and art, and awaken imagination through hands-on play.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Michigan and the most unlike its peers is We Care Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 37 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 MICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH HAVEN SCOTT CLUB ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES OF VAN BUREN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds MITTEN CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BEAUTIFY PULLMAN ↗
- Who funds SOUTH HAVEN REGIONAL BUSINESS HUB ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE OF PULLMAN ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN FLYWHEELERS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST 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: Albemarle Foundation · Berrien Community Foundation Inc · The Allegan County Community Foundation · Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Pfizer 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 South Haven Community 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.
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