· Private foundation
The Frank and Ethel Bresto 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE FRANK AND ETHEL BRESTO FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINNING FUTURES | $5,000 |
| OAKLAND UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| ALMA COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN | $2,000 |
| ST KIERAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| ST MARY'S OF THE HILLS | $2,000 |
| ST CYRIL AND METHODIUS SLOVAK CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,000 |
| ROCHESTER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $1,500 |
| CENTRAL MACOMB OPTOMIST | $1,500 |
| PENRICKTON CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN | $1,200 |
| WMU BRONCO ATHLETIC FUND | $1,000 |
| OUR LADY OF HOPE | $1,000 |
| SOLANIS CASEY CENTER | $1,000 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
60 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- WFWINNING FUTURES9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +50%
- ACALMA COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +7%
- PCPenrickton Center for Blind Children6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- SMST MARY'S OF ORCHARD LAKEone grant, 2022 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $500
- SHSACRED HEARTS MONASTERYone grant, 2018 · $500
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 improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
The alliance for aging research is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the narrative to achieve healthy aging and equitable access to care.
Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
Mclaren healthcare, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
To be a valued member-driven global network of leading insurance and investment financial service professionals who serve their clients by exemplary performance and the highest standard of ethics, knowledge, service, and productivity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 48 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 77 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 WINNING FUTURES ↗
- Who funds ALMA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Penrickton Center for Blind Children ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds UROLOGICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds The Institute for the Psychological Sciences Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MORGAN VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
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 · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Canton Community Foundation Inc · The Barton Malow Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Dte Energy Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 organization The Frank and Ethel Bresto 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.