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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.

$542k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.3MReligion$311kEducation$260kPhilanthropy$213kFood & Nutrition$201kCrime & Legal$175kYouth Development$161kHealth$140kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $317k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN$60,000
MICHAELS PLACE$50,000
PROJECT FEED THE KIDS$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
POWER BOOK BAGS$20,000
Generations Ahead$20,000
WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER$20,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$15,000
Father Fred Foundation$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY - TRAVERSE CITY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $588k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%SAMARITAS: $5k → 21%SINGLE MOMM: $55k → 7%SINGLE MOMM: $50k → 7%GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%PEACE RANCH: $20k → 10%PEACE RANCH: $16k → 10%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $14k → 10%SINGLE MOMM: $50k → 7%PEACE RANCH: $10k → 10%Father Fred Foundation: $10k → 10%THE FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%BENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $5k → 10%Reining Liberty Ranch: $10k → 10%BENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $5k → 10%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%BENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $3k → 10%THE FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%THE FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%Reining Liberty Ranch: $5k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $15k → 7%Peace Ranch: $5k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $10k → 7%SINGLE MOMM: $10k → 7%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $10k → 7%SINGLE MOMM: $10k → 7%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $9k → 7%SINGLE MOMM: $30k → 10%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $5k → 7%SINGLE MOMM: $30k → 10%SINGLE MOMM: $28k → 10%Generations Ahead: $20k → 10%Generations Ahead: $15k → 10%SINGLE MOMM: $15k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $10k → 10%Father Fred Foundation: $10k → 10%DISABILITY NETWORK OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $10k → 10%DISABILITY NETWORK OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $8k → 10%DISABILITY NETWORK OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $8k → 10%PROJECT UNITY FOR LIFE: $5k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $3k → 10%DISABILITY NETWORK OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 50 repeat orgs$346k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
18

Total granted

$2.9M
$304k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+12%

Still filing today

58%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthReligionEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SM
    SINGLE MOMM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $278k · revenue +841%
  • MP
    MICHAEL'S PLACE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $239k · revenue +44%
  • CF
    CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $176k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $113k
  • PH
    PRESERVE HICKORY
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -99%
  • MH
    MT HOLIDAY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +157%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Child and Family Services of the Upper Peninsula Inc

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…

Human Services
2
Life Resources of Northern Michigan Inc

Provide crisis pregnancy services

Human Services
3
Hope House of Northwest Michigan

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…

Human Services
4
North Star Reach

To provide life-changing camp experiences for children with serious health challenges through both residential camps and ongoing virtual (remote) programming.

Youth Development
5
Youth Haven Inc

To help disadvantaged youth transform their lives by providing learning experiences in a fun and safe christian environment, free of charge.

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6
Movement West Michigan

Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.

Religion
7
Northern Family Intervention Services Inc

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.

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8
Northern Homes Community Development Corporation

To create and preserve quality affordable housing options for northern michigan residents through education, development, and partnering with local communities.

Human Services
9
Northern Christian Radio

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.

—
10
Nccs - Housing Families First Nonprofit Housing Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
11
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
12
Good Samaritan Ministries

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Benzie Area Christian Neighbors Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
30/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $177,000 · OtherWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTERCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC: $176,000 · OtherCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INCTRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $150,000 · OtherTRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTERGRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $137,500 · OtherGRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLSGOOD NEWS MEDIA INC: $125,000 · OtherGOOD NEWS MEDIA INCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $112,500 · OtherNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $108,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSBRICKWAYS FOUNDATION: $106,000 · OtherBRICKWAYS FOUNDATION+36 more: $884,500 · Other+36 moreSINGLE MOMM: $277,500 · Human ServicesSINGLE MOMMFATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $93,500 · Human ServicesFATHER FRED FOUNDATI…PARAKLESIS INC: $51,000 · Human ServicesPARAKLESIS INCNORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $49,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST MICHIGAN S…GENERATIONS AHEAD: $48,300 · Human ServicesGENERATIONS AHEADDISABILITY NETWORK NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $26,500 · Human Services+5 more: $42,500 · Human Services+5 moreMICHAEL'S PLACE: $238,500 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationLEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER: $42,350 · EducationKIDS FIRST UGANDA: $30,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationPROJECT FEED THE KIDS INC: $110,000 · Food & NutritionYOUNG LIFE: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentPOWER BOOK BAGS: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTE YOUTH CYCLING: $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentLEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC: $68,000 · ReligionBENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC: $38,000 · Religion
Other$1,976,500Human Services$588,300Health$253,500Education$152,350Food & Nutrition$110,000Youth Development$107,500Religion$106,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSINGLE MOMM: $277,500 over 9y, 16% of budgetMICHAEL'S PLACE: $238,500 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC: $176,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $150,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetGOOD NEWS MEDIA INC: $125,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetPROJECT FEED THE KIDS INC: $110,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetFATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $93,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC: $68,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARAKLESIS INC: $51,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetPRESERVE HICKORY: $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetNORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $49,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetGENERATIONS AHEAD: $48,300 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetLEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER: $42,350 over 1y, 28% of budgetPOWER BOOK BAGS: $40,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetBENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC: $38,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLake Ann Baptist Camp Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS FIRST UGANDA: $30,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetDISABILITY NETWORK NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $26,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $26,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetMT HOLIDAY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetKeys to Freedom Ministries: $25,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetKALKASKA AREA INTERFAITH RESOURCES: $20,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $17,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOGNITION: $15,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetREINING LIBERTY RANCH: $15,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetBENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE INDUSTRIES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTE YOUTH CYCLING: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSEEDS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ELK RAPIDS DISTRICT LIBRARY: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSAMARITAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMORE THAN FOUR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 PARAKLESIS INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Grand Traverse Region…Oleson FoundationThe Art and Mary Schm…Rotary Charities of T…Consumers Energy Foun…Les & Ann Biederman F…United Way of Northwe…Canton Community Foun…The Carls FoundationDTE Energy FoundationImpact 100 of Travers…Green Brick Foundatio…
Grand Traverse Regional Community FoundationMI55.2× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Broad Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Broad Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Broad Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Broad Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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