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The Googasian Family Foundation at a glance

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The Googasian 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.

$153k
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$129kHealth$47kInternational$35kReligion$34kEnvironment$13kHousing & Shelter$12kSocial Science$11kHuman Services$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k45 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$450
Median grant
13
States reached
$65k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OAKLAND UNIVERSITY$100,000
ENLACE USA$11,850
WALLOON LAKE ASSOCIATION & CONSERVANCY$5,125
THE CARTER CENTER ONE COPENHILL$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
OPERATION BLESSING$2,500
PRODIGAL CHILD MINISTRIES$2,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$2,200
MICHIGAN PUBLIC$2,000
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST$1,600
ST LAZARUS SERBIAN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL$1,500
LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY$1,000
TOP OF MICHIGAN TRAILS COUNCIL$1,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$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 (FY20–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FLOW FOUNDATION INC: $100 → 10%NATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION: $200 → 12%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $200 → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $200 → 21%EASTER SEALS OF MICHIGAN: $250 → 8%EASTER SEALS OF MICHIGAN: $250 → 8%EASTER SEALS OF MICHIGAN: $250 → 8%EASTER SEALS OF MICHIGAN: $250 → 8%EASTER SEALS OF MICHIGAN: $250 → 8%EASTER SEALS OF MICHIGAN: $250 → 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

MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
CA
VA
MD
DE
TN
DC
MS
AL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$323k · 57 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

57 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
21

Total granted

$323k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+46%

Still filing today

63%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    4× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +96%
  • TC
    THE CARTER CENTER INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +32%
  • NL
    NO LONGER BOUND INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +13%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +149%
  • UO
    U OF M MEDICINE PROJECT HEALTHY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

—
2
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
3
The Greater Detroit Health Transition Company

Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…

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4
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
5
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
6
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…

Environment
7
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy

The minnesota center for environmental advocacy is a nonprofit organization that uses law, science and research to protect minnesota's environment, its natural resources and the health of its people.

Environment
8
Huron Pines Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc

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…

Environment
9
Minnesota Medical Association

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

—
10
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
11
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
12
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is Vets Returning Home Inc. 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

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
32/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $125,000 · OtherOAKLAND UNIVERSITYKENSINGTON COMMUNITY CHURCH: $13,100 · OtherUniversity of Michigan: $12,500 · OtherTHE CARTER CENTER ONE COPENHILL: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $8,600 · OtherST LAZARUS SERBIAN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL: $8,500 · Other+48 more: $60,275 · Other+48 moreENLACE USA: $27,650 · InternationalENLACE USATHE CARTER CENTER INC: $6,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER …+5 more: $1,150 · InternationalProdigal Child Ministries Inc: $20,000 · HealthProdigal …NO LONGER BOUND INC: $4,000 · HealthNO LONGER…SHADES OF PINK FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthSHADES OF…+5 more: $1,650 · Health+5 moreWALLOON LAKE ASSOCIATION AND CONSERVANCY: $6,625 · Food & NutritionFOR LOVE OF WATER: $2,350 · EnvironmentLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $2,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $800 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $600 · EnvironmentMICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL: $300 · Environment+1 more: $200 · EnvironmentTop of Michigan Trails Council: $2,200 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF CAMP BATAWAGAMA: $1,700 · Recreation & SportsCamp Daggett: $600 · Recreation & SportsGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $500 · Recreation & SportsTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & Culture
Other$249,975International$34,800Health$28,650Food & Nutrition$6,625Environment$6,250Recreation & Sports$5,000Arts & Culture$4,100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetENLACE USA: $27,650 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetProdigal Child Ministries Inc: $20,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $12,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetWALLOON LAKE ASSOCIATION AND CONSERVANCY: $6,625 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNO LONGER BOUND INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TROY: $3,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSHADES OF PINK FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MATTHEW BITTKER FOUNDATION: $2,900 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetSpringHill Camps: $2,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOR LOVE OF WATER: $2,350 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTop of Michigan Trails Council: $2,200 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $1,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAMP BATAWAGAMA: $1,700 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetEASTERSEALS MORC HEALTH CARE INC: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN INC: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $1,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $1,100 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Daggett: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGLORY HOUSE GLOBAL OUTREACH: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVETS RETURNING HOME INC: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAFFIRMATIONS COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA of Metropolitan Detroit: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF DELAWARE INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARMENIA FUND INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF AMERICA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF JACKSONVILLE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN BOARDING SC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 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 ENLACE USA ↗
  • Who funds Prodigal Child Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds WALLOON LAKE ASSOCIATION AND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NO LONGER BOUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TROY ↗
  • Who funds SHADES OF PINK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MATTHEW BITTKER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SpringHill Camps ↗
  • Who funds FOR LOVE OF WATER ↗
  • Who funds Top of Michigan Trails Council ↗
  • Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP BATAWAGAMA ↗
  • Who funds EASTERSEALS MORC HEALTH CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗

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 …DTE Energy FoundationPetoskey-Harbor Sprin…United Way for Southe…Edward & Helen Mardig…Triford FoundationThe Ralph C Wilson Jr…DotopiaCharles Stewart Mott …The Kresge FoundationPatagoniaorgWK Kellogg Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI21.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Edward & Helen Mardigian Foundation · Triford Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Dotopia · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Patagoniaorg · WK Kellogg Foundation

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 Googasian Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Googasian Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Delaware Inc: 73% of income from government
  • National Indian Child Welfare Association: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 83 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home