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Strunk 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WARREN SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| MAGGIE'S WIGS 4 KIDS OF MICHIGAN | $5,500 |
| LYDIA'S GATE | $5,250 |
| FOLLOW THE TRAIN - MIO214 | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS | $5,000 |
| MACOMB FOSTER CLOSET | $4,000 |
| CAVOD | $3,000 |
| BIG OAK WOLF SANCTUARY INC | $2,500 |
| TURNING POINT INC | $2,500 |
| ROCHESTER CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| FOP 124 BENEVOLENT FUND | $2,500 |
| BIG FAMILY OF MICHIGAN | $2,000 |
| IACS (ITALIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY) | $2,000 |
| THE FRIENDS OF MR D | $2,000 |
| PIME MISSIONARIES | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 22% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 10 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- MFMACOMB FOSTER CLOSET3× · 2022–2025 · $22k · revenue +923%
- FOFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS6× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +56%
- WSWARREN SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- TWTHE WALSH COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -56%
- HHHOCKEY HAS HEARTone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -56%
- AOASSEMBLIES OF GOD US MISSIONSone grant, 2019 · $5k
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 Transplant House of West Michigan is organized to provide individuals and their families that are going through the organ transplant process an affordable temporary home away from home in West Michigan to ease the transitions of their…
Wipe out kids cancer offers comfort and hope to kids with cancer through support programs serving the entire family and funds innovative research leading to new discoveries and treatments in the fight against pediatric cancer. "support and…
Creating healthy communities - together
Provide support, services and aid to current, future and past foster, adoptive and relative parents who are or were in the foster care system.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
To continuously improve the health of the communities we serve in the spirit of hope, compassion, respect and dignity.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Michigan coalition on donation (mcod) is dedicated to promoting organ, tissue, eye, blood, and bone marrow donation with community leaders via public education in all areas of society. our mission is to encourage michigan residents to…
The fore hadley foundation was created to drive awareness and generate funding for families and children affected by congenital diaphragmatic hernia (cdh). cdh is a rare birth defect that effects roughly 1 in every 2,500 live births per…
The dave thomas foundation for adoption is a national nonprofit public charity dedicated exclusively to finding permanent homes for more than 150,000 children waiting in north america's foster care systems. see schedule o for additional…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Family of Michigan Inc and the most unlike its peers is Freestar Financial Foundation. 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 23 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 80 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 MACOMB FOSTER CLOSET ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS ↗
- Who funds LYDIAS GATE ↗
- Who funds WARREN SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF WARREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds MAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALSH COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOLLOW THE TRAIL MI0214 ↗
- Who funds HOCKEY HAS HEART ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF OSCODA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Rochester Christian University ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND YOUTH TRAP BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds BIG OAK WOLF SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds VETS RETURNING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ITALIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BIG FAMILY OF MICHIGAN 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 · Chris and Michelle Peyerk Foundation · Appletree Hill Foundation · Dryden Family Foundation · Four County Community Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Strunk 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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