· Private foundation
The Auto Club Group Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k51 grants · $175k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $314k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAFE KIDS WORLDWIDE | $50,000 |
| NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT | $30,480 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $26,500 |
| MILWAUKEE BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS | $25,000 |
| LINCOLN TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT | $18,095 |
| CITY OF FORSYTH FIRE DEPT | $16,534 |
| FOOTHILLS REGIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL AND TRAUMA ADVISORY COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| MARIETTA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| VILLAGE OF HOFFMAN ESTATES | $14,736 |
| MOUNT CLEMENS HIGH SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| CASWELL CARES | $13,915 |
| GEORGIA COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES INC | $13,500 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN | $10,800 |
| SC CAREER KIDS | $10,500 |
| ST PETERSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
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, $229k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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 +54% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 58 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k 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
- SKSAFE KIDS WORLDWIDE2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +42%
- UOUniversity of Michigan3× · 2022–2024 · $63k · revenue +92%
COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- MCMACKINAC COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICEone grant, 2023 · $50k
- BCBOONE COUNTY HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2023 · $50k
- LILOVE INCone grant, 2021 · $40k
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.
Children's services
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…
The mission of greater minneapolis crisis nursery is to end the abuse and neglect of children and create strong and healthy families.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fostering Hope Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tebony and James Rosa Family 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
90 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 90 of the 336 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 NEBRASKA SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SAFE KIDS WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE WOMEN RISING ↗
- Who funds PASCO KIDS FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Marietta Schools Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE HELPS INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA STATE PATROL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH ↗
- Who funds UNION MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
- Who funds MARY LANNING HEALTHCARE 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: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · The Lozier Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · AT&T Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service 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 Auto Club Group 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.
- Harbor House of Central Florida Inc — 24% of income from government
- Pasco Kids First Inc — 13% of income from government
- Safe Kids Worldwide — 1% of income from government
- United Way of St Johns County Inc — 1% 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.