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The Frank and Ethel Bresto Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$113kReligion$60kHealth$49kHuman Services$22kFood & Nutrition$12kRecreation & Sports$7kPublic Benefit$6kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$700
Median grant
8
States reached
$775k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WINNING FUTURES$5,000
OAKLAND UNIVERSITY$3,000
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$2,500
ST KIERAN CHURCH$2,000
ST MARY'S OF THE HILLS$2,000
ALMA COLLEGE$2,000
ST CYRIL AND METHODIUS SLOVAK CATHOLIC CHURCH$2,000
CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN$2,000
CENTRAL MACOMB OPTOMIST$1,500
ROCHESTER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS$1,500
PENRICKTON CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN$1,200
SOLANIS CASEY CENTER$1,000
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY$1,000
WMU BRONCO ATHLETIC FUND$1,000
OUR LADY OF HOPE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $300 → 14%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 8%PLAY-PLACE AUTISM & SPECIAL NEEDS CENTER: $500 → 10%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
MS
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$293k · 60 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
16

Total granted

$293k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+75%

Still filing today

43%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WF
    WINNING FUTURES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +86%
  • AC
    ALMA COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +7%
  • PC
    Penrickton Center for Blind Children
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MARY'S OF ORCHARD LAKE
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • PC
    PINKERTON CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • AI
    AMERICAN INST CR RESEARCH
    one grant, 2020 · $500
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
2
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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3
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
7
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
8
Alliance for Aging Research

The alliance for aging research is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the narrative to achieve healthy aging and equitable access to care.

—
9
Michigan Biotechnology Institute

Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.

Education
10
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
11
Mclaren Port Huron

Mclaren healthcare, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
12
Million Dollar Round Table

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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan; 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.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
23/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $21,000 · OtherOAKLAND UNIVERSITYST CYRIL AND METHODIUS SLOVAK CATHOLIC CHURCH: $18,000 · OtherST CYRIL AND METHODIUS SLOVAK CATHOLIC CHURCHST KIERAN CHURCH: $18,000 · OtherST KIERAN CHURCHMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $14,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYCENTRAL MACOMB OPTOMIST: $10,700 · OtherCENTRAL MACOMB OPTOMISTWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $9,000 · OtherCAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN: $6,500 · Other+46 more: $95,150 · Other+46 moreWINNING FUTURES: $34,000 · EducationWINNING FUTURESALMA COLLEGE: $12,250 · EducationALMA COLLEGEWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,000 · EducationWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVE…The Institute for the Psychological Sciences Inc: $3,500 · EducationThe Institute for the …MORGAN VOLUNTEERS: $3,000 · EducationPenrickton Center for Blind Children: $8,500 · HealthPenrickto…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,800 · HealthST JUDE C…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,600 · HealthALZHEIMER…BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $2,100 · HealthBARBARA A…AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $2,000 · HealthAMERICAN …MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $1,300 · Health+2 more: $1,100 · HealthHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $3,600 · Housing & ShelterCOTS: $500 · Housing & ShelterLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $4,000 · Human ServicesTURNING POINT INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $800 · Human ServicesPLAY PLACE AUTISM & SPECIAL NEEDS CENTER: $500 · Human ServicesGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $4,500 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$192,350Education$59,750Health$24,400Housing & Shelter$8,100Human Services$7,800Food & Nutrition$5,500Recreation & Sports$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWINNING FUTURES: $34,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetALMA COLLEGE: $12,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPenrickton Center for Blind Children: $8,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUROLOGICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $4,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $3,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Institute for the Psychological Sciences Inc: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMORGAN VOLUNTEERS: $3,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMISFIT ANGELS RESCUE: $2,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAND COUNTY: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOTS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds UROLOGICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Children's Hospital o…United Way for Southe…Canton Community Foun…The Barton Malow Foun…Raymond James Charita…DTE Energy FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Frank and Ethel Bresto Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frank and Ethel Bresto Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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