· Private foundation
The George G Fund
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k11 grants · $800k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MACKINAC ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $800,000 |
| CONTEMPORARY CRAFT | $250,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $100,000 |
| MICHILIMACKINAC HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| MACKINAC ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| MACKINAC ASSOCIATES | $100,000 |
| YWCA | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF AUWAHI FOREST RESTORATION | $50,000 |
| MACKINAC HORSEMEN'S ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| SAINT FRANCIS WOLF SANCTUARY | $50,000 |
| GREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTER FDN | $50,000 |
| END VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS | $50,000 |
| LYRIC THEATER | $50,000 |
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 (FY21–22, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- TSTHE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS4× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +271% · 53% of their budget
- MSMACKINAC STRAITS HEALTH FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $450k · revenue +14%
- MAMACKINAC ASSOCIATES4× · 2020–2025 · $375k · revenue +171% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- UCUNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $200k
- WGWAWASHKAMO GOLF CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +86% · 35% of their budget
- FOFLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHY SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $100k
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 advance the field of health for the public good.
Be and create stewards for the water environment of michigan. provide high quality education for michigan's water professionals. educate and inform policy makers and the general public. promote scientifically sound environmental practices…
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
The marine mammal center advances global ocean conservation through marine mammal rescue and rehabilitation, scientific research, and education. the center's work is guided and inspired by a shared vision of a healthy ocean for marine…
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.
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
To protect and restore land, air, water, and diversity of life through informed personal and public action.
Uniting citizens to conserve, protect and enhance michigan's natural resources and outdoor heritage
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
To provide financial assistance to individuals and institutions for educational and scientific purposes in order to advance science to benefit the health and welfare of animals.
The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mackinac Straits Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Miller-Empey Natural Sciences Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 28 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 MACKINAC ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC STRAITS HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC HORSEMEN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YWCA MISSOULA ↗
- Who funds EVE - End Violent Encounters ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LACASA ↗
- Who funds MICHILIMACKINAC HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds EAST MAUI ANIMAL REFUGE ↗
- Who funds WAWASHKAMO GOLF CLUB ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES RECOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILLER-EMPEY NATURAL SCIENCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Auwahi Forest Restoration Project ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS WOLF SANCTUARY INC ↗
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: Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation · Trivisonno Foundation · Mackinac Island Community Foundation · Network for Good · 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 George G Fund 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.
- Florida Oceanographic Society 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.