· Private foundation
The Alvin L Glick 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 $10k59 grants · $132k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $571k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN MICHIGAN SPORTS COMMISSION | $500,000 |
| CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION | $225,000 |
| MAIN STREET PARK ALLIANCE | $175,000 |
| WESTERN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $150,000 |
| LUMEN CHRISTI HIGH SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| JACKSON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $100,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $100,000 |
| RED ROVER VENTURES | $85,000 |
| CITY OF JACKSON | $75,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN EDGE | $65,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $60,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL | $60,000 |
| ENTERPRISE GROUP COMMUNITY VENTURES | $50,000 |
| JUDI'S HOUSE | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
193 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2024, 122 since wound down; 27 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- CDCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $821k · revenue +220%
- SASpring Arbor University8× · 2017–2024 · $460k · revenue +4%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN EDGE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $366k · revenue +57% · 34% of their budget
Funded once
- SFSTATE FAIR COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $100k
- VFVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue ×45
- FSFERRIS STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
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.…
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 corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Creating healthy communities - together
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Creating healthy communities - together
The mission of jackson community ambulance is to provide high-quality out-of-hospital care and transportation services to the communities we serve.
To encourage michigan residents of all ages and abilities to live active and healthy lifestyles
To advance the field of health for the public good.
To advance the well-being of michigan residents through the promotion of sound public policies and responsible legislation. the purpose of these activities is to promote policies that strengthen the michigan health care system.
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Michelle Marie Lunn Hope 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 33 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% 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.
212 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. 212 of the 428 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Spring Arbor University ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN EDGE INC ↗
- Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENTERPRISE GROUP COMMUNITY VENTURES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Jackson School of the Arts Assoc ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET PARK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE ANCHOR INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Jackson Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Jackson YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LEAN ROCKET LAB ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RED ROVER VENTURES ↗
- Who funds JACKSON AREA HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Jackson Interfaith Shelter ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF LENAWEE COUNTY ↗
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: Consumers Energy Foundation · Jackson Community Foundation · John George Jr Paragraph X Trust · The Alro Steel Foundation · Lavery Foundation · Phil & Pat Willis Foundation · The Hurst Foundation · Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation · Addison P Cook III Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Melling Family Foundation · The L H Field Family 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 Alvin L Glick 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.
- Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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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