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The Cold Heading 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 FY2020–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WARRIORS BASEBALL CLUB OF MICHIGAN | $360,000 |
| UNLV FOOTBALL FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CAMPUS FOR HOPE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE CITY FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON ENGINEERING | $50,000 |
| MAYO FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BALLER DREAM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NEVADA MANSION | $25,000 |
| ST PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH OF GROSSE POINTE | $20,000 |
| OUR LADY OF LAS VEGAS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $20,000 |
| BAYVIEW YACHT CLUB JUNIOR SAILORS INC | $10,000 |
| CORWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTHEAST | $10,000 |
| ST JOAN OF ARC OF LAS VEGAS | $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 (FY20–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against 0% 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510k 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
- WBWARRIORS BASEBALL CLUB OF MICHIGAN6× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +29% · 54% of their budget
- VGVEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +42%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF LAS VEGAS METRO POLICE DEPTone grant, 2020 · $130k
- UOUniversity of Michigangraduatedone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +96%
- WLWISE LAS VEGASone grant, 2022 · $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.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
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…
To encourage michigan residents of all ages and abilities to live active and healthy lifestyles
To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart of detroit.
Our mission is to provide opportunities for kids, regardless of their abilities, to compete and experience the joy and benefits that come from playing sports.
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
The mission of calvary hospital is to care for the medical, emotional and spiritual needs of our adult patients with advanced cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. it is the only fully accredited acute care hospital in the u.s. devoted…
The chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Cubs Charities and the most unlike its peers is Grosse Pointe Park Foundation. 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.
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 23 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) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 104 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 WARRIORS BASEBALL CLUB OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Blackhawks Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds BAYVIEW YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLER DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMERLIN SOUTH LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WISE LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds MAYOR'S FUND FOR LAS VEGAS LIFE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NEVADA MANSION ↗
- Who funds VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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 Southeast Michigan · Miller Louise Tuller Trust Xxxxx8009 · Catholic Foundation of Michigan · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment 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 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.
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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