How much did THE GEORGE G FUND grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of THE GEORGE G FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$50k–250k8 grants · $525k
$250k+2 grants · $1.1M

$75,000

Median grant

States reached

$37M

Total assets

Largest grants

CONTEMPORARY CRAFT$650,000
MACKINAC ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$450,000
YWCA$100,000
MACKINAC ASSOCIATES$100,000
MILLER-EMPEY NATURAL SCIENCES FOUNDATION$75,000
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC$50,000
MICHILIMACKINAC HISTORICAL SOCIETY$50,000
MACKINAC HORSEMEN'S ASSOCIATION$50,000
END VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS$50,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 8%. 96% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.7M · 16 repeat orgs$805k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.7M

$730k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+193%

+1102%

Still filing today

50%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementScience & TechRecreation & SportsOther

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

MI
MACKINAC ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
4× · 2020–2024 · $865k · revenue +64% · 26% of their budget
MS
MACKINAC STRAITS HEALTH FOUNDATION
3× · 2021–2023 · $450k · revenue +285%
MA
MACKINAC ASSOCIATES
3× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +237% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

UC
UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $200k
WG
WAWASHKAMO GOLF CLUBgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +1723% · 35% of their budget
FO
FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHY SOCIETY
one grant, 2022 · $100k

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

04Your field

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.

Michigan Animal Health Foundation

To allow those who love animals an opportunity to donate to improve animal health and well-being.

Animals

Mackinac Center Charitable Foundation

To receive and administer funds exclusively for the benefit of and further any and all charitable, scientific, and educational activities in which the Mackinac Center, a Michigan nonprofit corporation (DBA Mackinac Center for Public…

Community Improvement

Michigan Health & Hospital Association

To promote the interests of the health care industry.

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Milwaukee Community Sailing Center Inc

To promote boating education and sailing instructions to make lake michigan accessible to everyone in the milwaukee area through quality programs.

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Mackinac Arts Council

The mackinac arts council creates, supports, and promotes the arts to enrich the lives of people visiting, working, and living on mackinac island.

Arts & Culture

Milwaukee County Historical Society Inc

The milwaukee county historical society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the history of the milwaukee community.

Arts & Culture

Marine Mammals of Maine

To rescue injured, sick and abandoned marine mammals and to educate the public about what to do if they find one of these marine mammals.

Arts & Culture

Fund for Lake Michigan Inc

Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…

Environment

Mackinac Straits Health System Inc

Mackinac straits health system will be a destination health system, delivering the best care and investing in community wellness.

Health

Wisconsin Marine Historical Society

Wmhs is a self-supported, nonprofit organization devoted to collecting, preserving, archiving, and making materials related to the great lakes' marine history accessible to the public. the society, with its 150 members, is affiliated with…

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Milwaukee Development Corporation

Regional economic development

Community Improvement

Michigan Association of Constructors

The association is dedicated to serving michigan's construction industry with skill, integrity and responsibility.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mackinac Straits Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is East Maui Animal Refuge. 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

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/13

Grantees still filing

11/13

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,005,000Philanthropy$965,000Health$550,000Recreation & Sports$325,000Community Improvement$275,000Arts & Culture$225,000Human Services$200,000

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.

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.

Trivisonno FoundationFL13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trivisonno Foundation · Mackinac Island Community Foundation · 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 organisation 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MILLER-EMPEY NATURAL SCIENCES FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 208997754 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MILLER-EMPEY NATURAL SCIENCES FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The George G Fund?

Find your warmest path to The George G Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE GEORGE G FUND

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The George G Fund?

More from the funding graph

THE GEORGE G FUND

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The George G Fund?

More from the funding graph