· Private foundation
The Doan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k23 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND COUNTY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| DELTA HD DOAN SCHOLARSHIP | $10,000 |
| SHELTERHOUSE - CDVSA | $8,000 |
| ARNOLD CENTER | $7,000 |
| MIDLAND SENIOR SERVICES | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH CENTRAL MI | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DELTA COLLEGE BROADCAST CENTER | $5,000 |
| WINDOVER HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| MIDLAND KIDS FIRST | $4,000 |
| MYMICHIGAN HEALTH | $3,000 |
| MCFTA-FRIENDS OF THE CENTER | $2,500 |
| WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER | $2,000 |
| GREATER MIDLAND NORTH FAMILY CENTER | $2,000 |
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, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- GMGREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC3× · 2020–2022 · $34k · revenue +129%
- WMWEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +20%
- ACARNOLD CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- MCMIDLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS- MATRIC- CINEMAone grant, 2020 · $7k
- MCMIDLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS- MATRIX- CINEMAone grant, 2021 · $4k
- TRTHE ROCKone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Creating healthy communities - together
The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
Creating healthy communities - together
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
To promote and encourage independence for all people with disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mymichigan Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Reaching Our Community Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 48 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 Midland County ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC ↗
- Who funds WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARNOLD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MYMICHIGAN HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Eagle Village Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND KIDS FIRST ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Midland County ↗
- Who funds Northwood University ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Midland Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds Reaching Our Community Kids ↗
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: Midland Area Community Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · Bill and Linda Stavropoulos Family Foundation · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Edward and Elyse Rogers Family Foundation · Alden and Vada Dow Fund · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Mary C Currie Foundation · Bierlein Companies 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 Doan 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.
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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