· Private foundation
The Cannon Fund
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 $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE | $25,000 |
| LAKESHORE MUSEUM CENTER | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HACKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| YMCA CAMP PENDALOUAN | $5,000 |
| MICHIGAN TECH FUND | $5,000 |
| LILI'UOKALANI GARDENS OF THE ISLAND | $5,000 |
| MONA LAKE WATERSHED COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| WINGS OF MERCY | $1,000 |
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, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +16%
- WMWEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +87%
- WOWINGS OF MERCY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- MTMichigan Tech Universityone grant, 2017 · $40k
- CACOVENANT ACADEMIES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +23%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGANone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +9%
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.
Channels individual, member, and corporate gifts for benefit of community.
To bring together, into one organization, the radiologists of the state of michigan, and provide scientific and medical education to its members.
The mid michigan college foundation is a non-profit michigan corportion organized to receive and administer funds for charitable purposes in support of mid michigan college. the corporation is organized exclusively for the purpose of…
To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.
None
Uniting citizens to conserve, protect and enhance michigan's natural resources and outdoor heritage
To teach & perpetuate the history of military accomplishments of citizens of the state of michigan and to maintain a museum for that purpose.
The organization is dedicated to preservation of michigan great lakes and waterways, maritime history and culture, and provides maritime education opportunities to the public through permanent and changing exhibits, research library, and…
To advance the field of health for the public good.
To provide opportunities for local & regional shrm chapters to network, share best practices, & provide development opportunities to their attendees acting as a conduit to the society for human resource management (national shrm) which…
To develop a common appreciation and knowledge of snowmobiling in michigan.
Maintain historical museum
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Muskegon Young Mens Christian Association and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Hackley Public Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 UNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Hackley Public Library ↗
- Who funds Michigan Tech Fund ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds MONA LAKE WATERSHED COMMISSION DBA MONA LAKE WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds San Miguel Search and Rescue ↗
- Who funds MUSKEGON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT ACADEMIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MUSKEGON CLIPPERS ↗
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: Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Consumers Energy Foundation · Fremont Area Community Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Cannon Fund 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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