· Private foundation
The Edwin J Skuller 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK | $2,000 |
| GREATER LANSING FOODBANK | $1,000 |
| CHARLEVOIX COUNTY COMM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ELE'S PLACE | $1,000 |
| GREATER LANSING JEWISH FEDERATION | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE BOYNE DISTRICT LIBRARY | $500 |
| GOOD NEIGHBORS FOOD PANTRY OF BOYNE | $500 |
| U OF M LSAROSS ENGINEERING | $500 |
| PARK SCHOOL | $500 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| WINGS OF MERCY | $250 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVACY | $250 |
| TEMPLE B'NAI ISRAEL | $250 |
| HADASSAH | $250 |
| SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS | $125 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 97% of your 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.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- CSCONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK9× · 2017–2025 · $23k
- GLGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +37%
- GLGreater Lansing Jewish Welfare Federation7× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue -38%
Funded once
- RIROTARY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $175
- RCROTARY CLUB OF LANSING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $100
- CMCAREFREE MEDICAL DENTAL CLINICone grant, 2017 · $100
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 protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.
To engage members of the Michigan community in urban agriculture
Rescue MI Nature Now, Inc. is a Michigan Nonprofit Organization committed to cultivating green zones within the communities and empowering neighborhoods through nature-centric educational programs. Through hands-on initiatives, we empower…
To enhance the educational experience of the students of the boyne city public schools
It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…
To protect natural, scenic, recreational, and agricultural lands and their natural diversity in mid-michigan so rural landscapes are preserved, and to promote the protection of these lands and their natural diversity through education and…
To protect land throughout michigan in order to preserve natural ecosystems, protect water quality, provide sanctuaries for wildlife and benefit present and future generations. we serve as an intermediary and maintain acquired properties…
PreservationinStateofMichigannaturalareas,whichbenefitandareaccessibletopublic.Inordertopreserveandprotectthesenaturalareas,whichincludeprairies,savannas,ravinesandwoodlandsandwetlandsopentopublic.
Food distribution through a mobile food pantry.
We gather and distribute food to relieve hunger and increase food security in west michigan and the upper peninsula. contributions and net assets consist primarily of donated food for distribution.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Lansing Jewish Welfare Federation and the most unlike its peers is Wings of Mercy Inc. 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 25 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 GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Greater Lansing Jewish Welfare Federation ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS FOOD PANTRY OF BOYNE ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds OKEMOS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYNE HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYNE CITIZEN ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Edwin J Skuller 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.
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens 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.