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The Broad Family Foundation
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 $10k12 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $317k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN | $60,000 |
| PROJECT FEED THE KIDS | $50,000 |
| MICHAELS PLACE | $50,000 |
| Legacy Aviation Learning Center | $42,350 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $40,000 |
| TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER | $35,000 |
| SINGLE MOMM | $30,000 |
| LOVE THY NEIGHBOR | $30,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Generations Ahead | $20,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| POWER BOOK BAGS | $20,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - TRAVERSE CITY | $10,000 |
| Father Fred Foundation | $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 (FY17–25, $537k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 1% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- SMSINGLE MOMM9× · 2017–2025 · $278k · revenue +841%
- MPMICHAEL'S PLACE9× · 2017–2025 · $239k · revenue +44%
- CFCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC6× · 2018–2025 · $176k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $113k
- PHPRESERVE HICKORYone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -99%
- WGWLJN GOOD NEWS MEDIA INCone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
To strengthen, nuture and empower children and families for a brighter future by providing programs that preserve the dignity and enhance the well-being of families throughout michigan's upper peninsula, in a caring, compassionate and…
Provide crisis pregnancy services
Hope house of northwest michigan is a non-profit christian maternity home that provides a safe loving residential environment for single expectant young women. through up to two years of residence the organization offers housing baby…
To provide life-changing camp experiences for children with serious health challenges through both residential camps and ongoing virtual (remote) programming.
To help disadvantaged youth transform their lives by providing learning experiences in a fun and safe christian environment, free of charge.
Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.
To provide in-home and in-school intervention, treatment and crisis counseling to youth and families in northern michigan and to assure that children are safe in their homes.
To create and preserve quality affordable housing options for northern michigan residents through education, development, and partnering with local communities.
To be a christ centered media ministry through which god is changing lives, strengthening families and impacting communities for christ in northern michigan and ontario.
Nccs housing families first non-profit housing corporation's mission is to provide safe, affordable housing for homeless families with children in newaygo and lake counties.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Good samaritan is committed to ending poverty and homelessness, in partnership with our community, by leading the way in providing affordable housing solutions and supportive services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Benzie Area Christian Neighbors Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kalkaska Area Interfaith Resources. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 15. 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 69 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 SINGLE MOMM ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FEED THE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FATHER FRED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds PRESERVE HICKORY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS AHEAD ↗
- Who funds LEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds POWER BOOK BAGS ↗
- Who funds BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds Lake Ann Baptist Camp Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST UGANDA ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY NETWORK NORTHERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds MT HOLIDAY INC ↗
- Who funds Keys to Freedom Ministries ↗
- Who funds KALKASKA AREA INTERFAITH RESOURCES ↗
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: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Oleson Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Consumers Energy Foundation · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Michigan · Canton Community Foundation Inc · The Carls Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Impact 100 of Traverse City Inc · Green Brick Foundation Inc
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 Broad Family 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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