How much did THE COLD HEADING FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of THE COLD HEADING FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2020

hills

2021

—

2022

missonfaith

2023

missonheartfaithleague

2024

missonfremontlittle

2025

healthlittle league

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

03FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k31 grants · $125k
$10k–50k8 grants · $145k
$50k–250k5 grants · $405k
$250k+2 grants · $610k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$34M

Total assets

Largest grants

WARRIORS BASEBALL CLUB OF MICHIGAN$360,000
UNLV FOOTBALL FOUNDATION$250,000
CAMPUS FOR HOPE FOUNDATION$100,000
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS FOUNDATION$100,000
VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION$100,000
GROSSE POINTE CITY FOUNDATION$55,000
UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON ENGINEERING$50,000
BALLER DREAM FOUNDATION$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE NEVADA MANSION$25,000
MAYO FOUNDATION$25,000
OUR LADY OF LAS VEGAS CATHOLIC CHURCH$20,000
ST PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH OF GROSSE POINTE$20,000
CORWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTHEAST$10,000
BAYVIEW YACHT CLUB JUNIOR SAILORS INC$10,000
ST JOAN OF ARC OF LAS VEGAS$10,000

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 (FY20–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 90% of THE COLD HEADING FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 58% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 3% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE COLD HEADING FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.9M · 48 repeat orgs$985k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.9M

$475k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

+18%

Still filing today

23%

34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Recreation & SportsPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsOther

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

WB
WARRIORS BASEBALL CLUB OF MICHIGAN
6× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +66% · 54% of their budget
VG
VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +1%
BY
BAYVIEW YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $72k · revenue +153%

Funded once

FO
FRIENDS OF LAS VEGAS METRO POLICE DEPT
one grant, 2020 · $130k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +126%
WL
WISE LAS VEGAS
one grant, 2022 · $25k

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.

Henderson Silver Knights Foundation Inc

The henderson silver knights foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that serves as the primary charitable link between the american hockey league team and the las vegas community.

Philanthropy

The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation

The los angeles dodgers foundation is the official team charity of the los angeles dodgers.

Recreation & Sports

Detroit Police Athletic League

Detroit police athletic league, incorporated ("detroit pal") is a character-building youth sports organization that offers significant leadership development opportunities through coach and mentor relationships and peer-to-peer engagement.…

Human Services

Detroit Tigers Foundation of Florida Inc

To enhance the lives of local children through the game of baseball

Human Services

Mgm Resorts Foundation

The mgm resorts foundation brings the best of our employee volunteer and charitable efforts together with greater impact and greater choice. the mgm resorts foundation focuses employee charitable contributions to non-profit agencies and…

Philanthropy

Major League Baseball Charities Inc

To conduct activities that foster participation and interest in national or international amateur sports competition

Philanthropy

Major League Baseball Players Association

The organization is the union representing major and minor league baseball players.

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Major League Baseball Players Trust

The major league baseball players trust harnesses the expertise, influence, and energy of players to create meaningful and sustainable change in the lifelong well-being of others. this is achieved through a series of programs that are run…

Recreation & Sports

National Baseball Hall of Fame and

The national baseball hall of fame and museum is a not-for-profit educational institution dedicated to fostering an appreciation of the historical development of the game of baseball and its impact on our culture by collecting, preserving,…

Arts & Culture

North American Hockey League

To provide youth amateur ice hockey competition.

Recreation & Sports

Sw Michigan Miracle League

To provide opportunities for kids, regardless of their abilities, to compete and experience the joy and benefits that come from playing sports.

Recreation & Sports

Chicago Bulls Charities

To make a positive impact on the lives of Chicagoans in need.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Interlochen Center for the Arts. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 20 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/43

the rest of the field

10%

5,620/53,813

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.

06the grantee network

31 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)

31/31

Grantees still filing

22/31

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,755,000Recreation & Sports$2,228,500Philanthropy$763,000Health$88,500Youth Development$31,000Education$26,000Arts & Culture$26,000

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.

Community Foundation for SoutheastMI14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving 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 organisation THE COLD HEADING 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: WARRIORS BASEBALL CLUB OF MICHIGAN.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +66% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 275254972 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 WARRIORS BASEBALL CLUB OF MICHIGAN, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 54% 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.

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How do I get to The Cold Heading Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Cold Heading 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 COLD HEADING 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?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Cold Heading Foundation?

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THE COLD HEADING 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?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Cold Heading Foundation?

More from the funding graph