· Private foundation
Suzanne Sloat & Ray Okonski Fdn
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of SUZANNE SLOAT & RAY OKONSKI FDN’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| POLISH CENTURY HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN POLISH CULTURAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| POLISH CENTURY HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN POLISH CULTURAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| LENNON CENTER | $1,500 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF DETROIT | $1,500 |
| CHURCH OF THE DIVINE CHILD | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR POLISH CULTURE | $1,000 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCEY | $1,000 |
| WAGBO FARM & EDUCATION CENTER | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| POLISH AMERICAN CONGRESS | $1,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FOCUS | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 44% of Suzanne Sloat & Ray Okonski Fdn’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 50% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 9 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- PCPOLISH CENTURY HERITAGE FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $18k
- UOUniversity of Michigan2× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +88%
- NPNATIONAL POLISH AMERICAN SPORTS HAL2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- WPWGTE PUBLIC MEDIAone grant, 2024 · $5k
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2024 · $5k
- SJST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCHone grant, 2023 · $1k
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 polish american chamber of commerce is dedicated to fostering its members' business interests, educating and building relations.
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.
To promote understanding and appreciation of the polish heritage and culture as embodied in traditions, history, language, current affairs, and the arts.
The association of catholic colleges and universities, founded in 1899, serves as the collective voice of u.s catholic higher education. through programs and services, the association strengthens and promptes the catholic identity and…
Protect life michigan (plm) is organized to:promote a culture of life on college campuses in michigan. the organization's mission is to end abortion by (1) recruiting and training students for pro-life leadership, (2) educating youth on…
The Historical Society of Michigan will foster in citizens a deeper understanding of and appreciation for all Michigan history through programs and publications; preserve and promote Michigan history through conferences, publications,…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Marian university is a catholic applied liberal arts community that welcomes diverse spiritual traditions sponsored by the congregation of sisters of st agnes. marian university engages students in the education of the whole person. we…
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.
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
The primary mission of the presidents council is to advocate higher education as a public good and to promote its collective value in serving the public interest and the state of michigan. the primary goal is to provide services to members…
To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Humane Society of Saginaw County Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 30 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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL POLISH AMERICAN SPORTS HAL ↗
- Who funds American Polish Cultural Society ↗
- Who funds Polish American Congress Inc-MI Div ↗
- Who funds THE LENNON CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Council for Polish Culture ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Madonna University ↗
- Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CATH LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS & CIVIL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds MODEL-T AUTOMOTIVE HERITAGE COMPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SAGINAW COUNTY INCORPORATED ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Suzanne Sloat & Ray Okonski Fdn 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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