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The Alro Steel 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 $10k77 grants · $142k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $400k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $375k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $2,000,000 |
| JACKSON COUNTY PARKS | $411,000 |
| BUILD EACH OTHER UP | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $100,000 |
| JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $75,000 |
| NORTHWEST COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $50,000 |
| JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND | $50,000 |
| WESTERN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $28,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| CRAWFORD AUSABLE EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| ENGINEERING SOCIETY OF DETROIT | $25,000 |
| MICHIGAN CENTER SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| GRASS LAKE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% 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.
29 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 73 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- UOUniversity of Michigan8× · 2017–2024 · $16M · revenue +202%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +16%
- PFPALOZOLA FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $24k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TMTHE MICHIGAN THEATRE OF JACKSON INCone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -48%
- MCMACKINAC CENTERone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +3%
- CACOLLEGE AND CAREER ACCESS CENTER OF JACKSONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +53%
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 niu foundation's mission is to energize and connect the private sector with the niu community to secure and steward resources that support the future and growth of niu.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
To conduct interscholastic athletic tournaments throughout the state, consistent with educational values of high school curriculums, to provide assistance in the training of coaches, athletic directors and officials, as well as the…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
The ucf foundation encourages, stewards and celebrates charitable contributions from alumni and friends to support university of central florida (ucf).
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
The midwest conference is an interstate league among similarly minded institutions - those which give primary attention to the educational purposes of athletics. member institutions believe that participation in sport enhances the…
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Joseph J Laurencelle Memorial 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 19 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 149 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 THE MICHIGAN THEATRE OF JACKSON INC ↗
- Who funds Build Each Other Up NFP ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CRAWFORD AUSABLE EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENGINEERING SOCIETY OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds PALOZOLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIRTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR A PROSPEROUS AMERICA EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE AND CAREER ACCESS CENTER OF JACKSON ↗
- Who funds KELLOGG COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds NFPA EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY 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: The Alvin L Glick Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · John George Jr Paragraph X Trust · Jackson Community Foundation · Michigan College Access Network · Dte Energy Foundation · The L H Field Family Foundation · Phil & Pat Willis Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Alro Steel 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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