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The Costley 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.
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 $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF METRO ATLANTA | $15,000 |
| THE WOMENS CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN | $15,000 |
| JRLA OPERATION GRADUATION | $12,000 |
| PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $5,000 |
| OZONE HOUSE | $5,000 |
| KATE'S CLUB | $5,000 |
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, $330k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +230% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 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
- GCGuadalupe Center Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $142k · revenue +145%
- TWTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +230%
- TBTHE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC3× · 2019–2024 · $48k · revenue +693%
Funded once
- OGOPERATION GRADUATIONone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +0%
GIRLS GROUPone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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.
Boys & girls clubs of boston (bgcb) stands as a transformative force in boston and chelsea, where high expectations unlock greatness. we believe that every young person who walks through our doors carries limitless potential. through our…
King street center empowers youth to explore their talents and find their voice through learning, play, and opportunity.
To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring adults.
Provide services and programs for women, teens, children, and families of miami-dade county in focusing our mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
To provide club members with a safe, supportive, fun, and enriching environment that inspires and empowers them to achieve their greatest potential. bgcmd accomplishes this mission with a foundational social- emotional learning approach…
Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…
See schedule oto inspire and enable all young people to realize their potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens and community leaders of tomorrow. the club has been at the forefront of youth development, working with young…
To provide services and programs for children.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us the most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Girls inc.'s mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. in partnership with schools and community organizations, we focus on the development of the whole girl. she learns to value herself, take risks, and discover and…
Ywca tri-county area is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
The young men's christian association of birmingham, inc. is a charitable organization that opens its doors to all women, men, families, teenagers, and children regardless of their ability to pay. the mission of the ymca is to put…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kate's Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bearings Bike Shop Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 14 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 Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Peace Neighborhood Center ↗
- Who funds KATE'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds OZONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION GRADUATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS GROUP ↗
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: Jenkins Foundation · Thrift Shop Association of Ann Arbor · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor Foundation Inc · United Way of Washtenaw County · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Costley Family 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.
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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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