· Private foundation
Ted and Jane Von Voigtlander Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LACASA | $1,000,000 |
| FUND A LIFE NFP | $100,000 |
| CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE IVY TABLE | $75,000 |
| HARVEST FOODS INC | $22,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY GREAT LAKES DIVISION | $20,000 |
| LOVE INCOF THE GREATER LIVINGSTON AREA | $20,000 |
| CLEARY UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| GO-LIV-CO HORAL FAMILY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RAVEN HILL DISCOVERY CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE LARRY PROUT JR (THE BEAR) COURAGE FUND | $10,000 |
| THE WELL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| LIVINGSTON ARTS COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| THE ZEKELMAN HOLOCAUST CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $735k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 7 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
- CUCLEARY UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +81%
- LLACASA5× · 2019–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +84%
- T1TORCH 1806× · 2018–2023 · $515k · revenue +73% · 55% of their budget
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Michigangraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1.5M · revenue +88%
- HFHENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $450k · revenue +119%
- GHGDI HELPING HANDS PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…
To continuously improve the health of the communities we serve in the spirit of hope, compassion, respect and dignity.
Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time, to create a future where everyone has access to nourishing food.
To provide comprehensive, high quality hospice services to meet medical, nursing, psychosocial, and spiritual needs for individuals facing the last stages of life, as well as emotional care for their families and friends; to conduct…
Our mission is to be a catalyst for a vital business environment and an exceptional community.
Habitat for humanity of huron valley exists to provide affordable housing to low-income individuals in the greater washtenaw county area.
United memorial medical center is the only acute care hospital in genesee county, with 131 licensed acute care beds that provide the necessary healthcare services to a regional population of approximately 138,000 residents and operates the…
Improving the health of the people in our communities by providing quality, compassionate care to everyone, every time.
Improve health, instill humanity and inspire hope.
The Severe Weather Network (SWN) partners with community organizations, agencies, and faith communities to provide emergency, overnight refuge during the winter months for people experiencing homelessness in Livingston County. SWN also…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Livingston County Catholic Charities and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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 24 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 52 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 CLEARY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR REACH ↗
- Who funds LACASA ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds TORCH 180 ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FUND A LIFE NFP ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC LIVINGSTON ↗
- Who funds HOWELL PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE IVY TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds YATOOMA'S FOUNDATION FOR THE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON COUNTY FIRST RESPONDERS BENEVOLENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds HOME OF NEW VISION ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HOWELL NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF THE GREATER LIVINGSTON AREA ↗
- Who funds Raven Hill Discovery Center ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON SUNRISE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LARRY PROUT JR THE BEAR COURAGE FUND ↗
- Who funds AMBER REINECK HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds HURON ROWING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RISING HOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
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 · Dte Energy Foundation · Positive Step Foundation Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · Edward and June Kellogg Foundation Dba Kellogg Family Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Livingston County United Way · Trinity Health - Michigan · The Carls Foundation · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Ann Arbor Spark
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 Ted and Jane Von Voigtlander 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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