· Public charity
St Josephbenton Harbor Rotary Foundation Inc
The foundation is to improve the quality of life in the greater st.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of ST JOSEPHBENTON HARBOR ROTARY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $64,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $69,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $15,000 |
| LORY'S PLACE | $11,000 |
| LEST WE FORGET | $10,000 |
| CAROL'S HOPE | $8,500 |
| SOUTHWEST MI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $8,000 |
| COUNTY OF BERRIEN | $6,200 |
| WATER STREET GLASSWORKS | $5,300 |
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 (FY17–24, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- FAFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN5× · 2017–2023 · $38k · revenue +38%
- SNSENIOR NUTRITION SERVICES REG IV INC4× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +13%
- LCLogan Community Resources Inc2× · 2017–2020 · $16k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- COCITY OF BENTON HARBORone grant, 2022 · $12k
- SJST JOSEPH TODAY ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +53%
- AHAFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE GALLERYone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
The mission of the children's advocacy center of southwest michigan is to support children through a coordinated response to child abuse and neglect that includes prevention, assessment and intervention.
To provide compassionate in-home skilled nursing care and supportive resources for those affected by cancer and related illnesses in southwest michigan.
Member driven organization working to achieve economy prosperity throughout the region. it's mission is to leverage every available resource within out network for the advancement of our members and the betterment of all who live in our…
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
United way of southwest michigan works in berrien, cass, and van buren counties to sustain a united community where everyone contributes, belongs, and thrives.
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
Provide free legal assistance to indigent and low income persons
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Protecting life. sharing the truth. empowering people to make healthy life choices
Surrounding seniors with the care you need to remain in the home you love.
To assist with the health and well being, of persons age 60 years and over, by providing nutritional, homemaking, and personal care services in the arenac county, mi area.
None
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Avenue Family Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Winning Inc of America. 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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 29 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 MOSAIC CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SENIOR NUTRITION SERVICES REG IV INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPM ↗
- Who funds Logan Community Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH TODAY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Lest We Forget Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Berrien Families Plus ↗
- Who funds THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GROWTH AND INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT FINANCIAL WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds Hospice at Home Inc ↗
- Who funds SARETT NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WINNING INC OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BERRIEN COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH-LINCOLN SENIOR SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BERRIEN-CASS-VANBUREN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds CURIOUS KIDS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS MEDIATION SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds WATER STREET GLASSWORKS ↗
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: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · The Pokagon Fund Inc · United Way of Southwest Michigan · Whirlpool Foundation · The Covia Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · The Schalon Foundation · The Thomas and Maria Yeager Family Foundation · The McLoughlin Family Foundation · Corewell Health Group Return · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · American Electric Power 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 St Josephbenton Harbor Rotary 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.
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.