· Private foundation
The Alabaster Fund
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| YOUTH LEADERSHIP INCUBATOR INC | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| GOODWILL NORTHERN MICHIGAN | $20,000 |
| GENERATIONS AHEAD | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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 +47% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
FRACTURED ATLAS INC6× · 2018–2023 · $500k · revenue +57%- YAYOUTH ACTION INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2019–2021 · $74k · revenue +24% · 27% of their budget
- GAGENERATIONS AHEAD3× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +237%
Funded once
- HPHaiti Partners Incone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -19%
- NYNEWFLEX YOUTH PROGRAMS INCone grant, 2020 · $50k
- ICINTERNATIONAL CHILD RESOURCE INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +38%
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 Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Artprize allows for open citywide contemporary art experiences that encourage critical discourse, celebrate artists, transform urban space and promote cultural understanding.
We build environments of curiosity and creativity with our neighbors to cultivate inclusion and justice.
Working through social entrepreneurs to impact the lives of children globally. the gratitude network seeks out the worlds most dynamic and innovative leaders and organizations impacting the lives of children and youth for competitive…
Grand traverse industries fiercely advocates strengthens and advances the dignity and opportunities of people with disabilities through services and employment.
To lift the human spirit through the art of dance by providing: exceptional and diverse programming; high quality dance education; outreach to inspire and enrich the community; family-friendly programming including newly commissioned…
Our mission is to continuously expand the potential of children, the experiences of educators and the involvement of parents within the diverse community of grand rapids, mi
To cultivate a thriving and connected startup ecosystem in nw lower michigan.
The mission of the northwest michigan arts & culture network ("the network") is to harness the collective power of the creative sector to cultivate vibrant communities by strengthening the regional ecosystem that supports arts and culture.…
Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…
Arts for learning indiana brings the arts to your school community to champion creative learning, innovate education, and transform lives.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Haiti Partners Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youth Action International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 27 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 FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ACTION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds Haiti Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS AHEAD ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHILD RESOURCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMPANY DANCE TRAVERSE ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Arts For All of Northern Michigan ↗
- Who funds Youth Leadership Incubator Inc HackPlus ↗
- Who funds Chicago Human Rhythm Project ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds Grand Traverse Ski Club ↗
- Who funds CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OPERA HOUSE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DESMOND DOSS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 The Alabaster Fund 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.