How much did THE BUHR FOUNDATION grant in FY2021?

Philanthropy$6.7MHuman Services$101kYouth Development$87kArts & Culture$71kHealth$60kPublic Benefit$35kEducation$21kEnvironment$10kAnimals$3kOther$519k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

campchurchnorth starstar reachwashtenaw sheriffsheriff shopshop cop

2020

theatrehealthchildren's

2021

termination ninenine ann

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2021 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

$50k–250k2 grants · $135k
$250k+1 grant · $6.5M

$76,860

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$6,532,166
ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$76,860
ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$58,271

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

9%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$644k · 30 repeat orgs$6.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +58% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2021, 30 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$644k

$263k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%

+58%

Still filing today

63%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

FH
FISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN
2× · 2019–2020 · $35k · revenue +68%
HO
HOME OF NEW VISION
2× · 2019–2020 · $30k · revenue +68%
PN
PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER
2× · 2019–2020 · $21k · revenue +525%

Funded once

NS
NORTH STAR REACH
one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -65%
TA
THE ARK
one grant, 2019 · $20k
GH
GROWING HOPEgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +58%

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

04Your field

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.

Greater Lansing Food Bank

Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time.

Food & Nutrition

Mymichigan Health

Creating healthy communities together by providing excellent health services to improve the quality of life for our communities.

Health

Lincoln Behavioral Services

Lincoln Behavioral Services provides comprehensive outpatient mental health and physical health services to individuals residing in southeastern Michigan.

Health

Michigan Lakes and Streams

Preservation and protection of michigan inland lakes and streams

Environment

United Way of South Central Michigan

United way of south central michigan strives for caring, connected, equitable communities.

Philanthropy

Center for Success Network

The organization unites literacy and community to empower students in the journey of education.

Community Improvement

Michigan League for Public Policy

The michigan league for public policy (the "league") is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that promotes economic opportunity, independence, and security for economically vulnerable individuals, families, and children in michigan…

Human Services

The Childrens Advocacy Centers of

Our mission is to unify and strengthen michigan's response to child victims of abuse through sustainable growth, collaboration, and empowerment of children's advocacy centers (cacs). our vision is that all of michigan's children will have…

Crime & Legal

The Michigan Center for Civic Education

To promote and support the development of engaged, responsible citizens. The Michigan Center for Civic Education (MCCE) strengthens constitutional democracy through authentic civic education and professional learning. MCCE advances the…

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Habitat for Humanity of Michigan

To work with the economically disadvantaged to help them to create better places to live/work.

Housing & Shelter

Lenawee Emergency and Affordable Housing Corp

to advance housing stability and affordable opportunities for low income people especially those in crisis or at risk individuals and families within Lenawee County

Housing & Shelter

Michigan Nonprofit Association

The mission of mna is to serve nonprofits to advance their missions

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ozone House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Riverside Arts Center. 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 45 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/36

the rest of the field

11%

259/2,270

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.

05the grantee network

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/35

Grantees still filing

23/35

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$6,667,297Other$553,208Human Services$101,000Youth Development$87,000Arts & Culture$71,200Health$60,000Public Benefit$35,000

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.

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.

Ann Arbor Area Community FoundationMI60.5× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley · United Way of Washtenaw County · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast · Edward F Redies Foundation Inc · Duffy Foundation · Thrift Shop Association of Ann Arbor · Kiwanis Club of Aa Foundation Inc · The Mosaic Foundation · Food Gatherers

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 organisation THE BUHR 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: VETTER FAMILY ORGANIZATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 842527485 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on VETTER FAMILY ORGANIZATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 48% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Buhr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Buhr Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE BUHR FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Buhr Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE BUHR FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Buhr Foundation?

More from the funding graph