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Terrence S Kaiser and Barbara a Kaiser Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of TERRENCE S KAISER AND BARBARA A KAISER FOUNDATION’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.

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILLINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$17,750
MILLINGTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLS$15,000
HOPE SHORES ALLIANCE$6,900
HOPE FOR WARRIORS$5,000
NEW LIGHT CHILD AND FAMILY INSTITUT$4,000
MILLINGTON MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE$3,000
CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
IMAGINATION LIBRARY GREAT START TUS$3,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ALPENA$3,000
HUBBARD LAKE COMMUNITY CENTER$2,000
GLOBAL CULTURAL COMMONS$2,000
ONE LIFE FOR LIFE CHURCH$600
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 11%UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC: $20k → 18%WHALEY CHILDRENS CENTER: $3k → 16%WHALEY CHILDRENS CENTER: $3k → 16%JAMES MOOREHOUSE: $2k → 16%NEW LIGHT CHILD AND FAMILY INSTITUT: $8k → 12%NEW LIGHT CHILD AND FAMILY INSTITUT: $5k → 12%NEW LIGHT CHILD AND FAMILY INSTITUT: $4k → 12%NEW LIGHT CHILD AND FAMILY INSTITUT: $4k → 12%NEW LIGHT CHILD AND FAMILY INSTITUT: $4k → 12%NEW LIGHT CHILD AND FAMILY INSTITUT: $4k → 12%NEW LIGHT CHILD AND FAMILY INSTITUT: $4k → 12%NEW LIGHT CHILD AND FAMILY INSTITUT: $4k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
OR
OH
CA
MO
KY
TN
NC
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$268k · 17 repeat orgs$310k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
63

Total granted

$268k
$281k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+7%

Still filing today

18%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • NL
    NEW LIGHT CHILD & FAMILY INSTITUTE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $37k · revenue +44%
  • WC
    Whaley Children's Center Inc
    2× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +74%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALPENA
    2× · 2017–2020 · $3k · revenue +348%

Funded once

  • UR
    UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +24%
  • VO
    VILLIAGE OF MILLINGTON DDA
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • BV
    BAY VETERANS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +59%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lakes Crisis and Resource Center

Fostering safety, hope and healing through advocacy, intervention and education; direct services for those affectede by domestic violence, abused children, sexual assault victims and general crimes; shelter for women and children; youth…

Human Services
2
Michigan Center of Accountability for Republicans

Social welfare and issue advocacy

Civil Rights
3
Michigan Foster Care Closet

Provide support, services and aid to current, future and past foster, adoptive and relative parents who are or were in the foster care system.

Human Services
4
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

5
New Choices Inc

The mission of new choices, inc. is to provide shelby county, ohio with the immediate care needs for individuals of domestic violence.

Human Services
6
Saginaw County Youth Protection Council

To empower and support children and families in reaching their full potential and becoming self-sufficient, saving lives and creating futures through educational enrichment and shelter services.

Human Services
7
Mi Just Cause

MI Just Cause is committed to serving chronically disenfranchised men in the City of Lansing. Our target demographic is young men aging out of foster care, those on parole or probation for non-violent offenses, and the habitually homeless.…

Housing & Shelter
8
Lake County Crisis Center

A safe place is the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence & human trafficking in northern illinois.

9
Catholic Human Services Inc

Catholic human services inc. enhances the lives of those we serve by providing hope-filled social, emotional and spiritual support to all people.

Human Services
10
Child & Family Service of Saginaw

Child and Family Service of Saginaw County is a social work agency dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in our community by fostering personal growth, emotional development, recovery from trauma, self- reliance, and healthy…

Human Services
11
Redemption Road Rescue of Michigan

Our mission is to provide safe, loving foster homes for animals in need, offering them a second chance at life while working tirelessly to find them permanent, caring families. we are dedicated to rescue, rehabilitation, and responsible…

Animals
12
Sunrise Mission Inc

Sunrise mission is a christian domestic ciolence and homeless shelter that serves northeastern michigan by helping adults and families obtain and maintain affordbale employment and housing. we glorify god by assisting our guests to…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Shiawassee and Genesee Counties and the most unlike its peers is James-Moorehouse Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySupportive Housing & Crisis…College Support FoundationsDog and Pet RescueHealthcare Foundations and …Local Business Chambers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%10%<5yr13%10%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr14%17%35–55yr18%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr13%2%5–10yr20%37%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr18%21%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
12%
6,511/53,827

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.

04the grantee network

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MILLINGTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLS — $87,660 · OtherMILLINGTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLSMILLINGTON ARBELA FIRE DEPARTMENT — $35,900 · OtherMILLINGTON ARBELA FIRE DEPARTMENTHOPE FOR WARRIORS — $26,000 · OtherHOPE FOR WARRIORSVILLIAGE OF MILLINGTON DDA — $20,000 · OtherMILLINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $17,750 · OtherEASTERN MI FOOD BANK — $15,000 · Other+67 more — $235,966 · Other+67 moreNEW LIGHT CHILD & FAMILY INSTITUTE — $37,000 · Human ServicesNEW LIGHT CH…UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesUNDERGROUND …Whaley Children's Center Inc — $5,500 · Human ServicesWhaley Child…+1 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesBAY VETERANS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · PhilanthropyRescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan — $19,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $500 · Housing & ShelterLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $11,200 · Crime & LegalRe-Connections Inc — $600 · Crime & LegalMILLINGTON COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFood Bank of Eastern Michigan — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$438,276Human Services$64,500Philanthropy$23,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Crime & Legal$11,800Recreation & Sports$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW LIGHT CHILD & FAMILY INSTITUTE — $37,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetUNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBAY VETERANS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetRescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan — $19,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $11,200 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMILLINGTON COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhaley Children's Center Inc — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS COUNSELING MINISTRIES — $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALPENA — $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SHELTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKettering University — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SHIAWASSEE AND GENESEE COUNTIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRe-Connections Inc — $600 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDREWS HOME OF CLARKSTON INC — $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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 NEW LIGHT CHILD & FAMILY INSTITUTE
  • Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC
  • Who funds BAY VETERANS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan
  • Who funds LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MILLINGTON COMMUNITY CENTER INC
  • Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan
  • Who funds Whaley Children's Center Inc
  • Who funds CROSSROADS COUNSELING MINISTRIES
  • Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION 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.

Consumers Energy FoundationMI17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Consumers Energy Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Yeo & Yeo Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Frankenmuth Insurance Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Terrence S Kaiser and Barbara a Kaiser 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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