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The Hagerman Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3k
Granted FY2020
2
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.

Arts & Culture$4.2MCivil Rights$400kHousing & Shelter$378kYouth Development$345kHealth$275kHuman Services$224kCommunity Improvement$144kCrime & Legal$85kOther$0
02FY2020 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,490
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT AND GENESEE COUNTY$2,490
HAGERMAN DONOR ADVISED FUND (COMMUNITY FOUNDATION)$230
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CAMP CASEY: $15k → 8%CAMP CASEY: $10k → 8%WHALEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $27k → 16%WHALEY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $2k → 16%ENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $48k → 16%ENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $40k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 17 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2020, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
39

Total granted

$1.1M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+58%

Still filing today

88%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Arts & CultureCrime & LegalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $153k · revenue +59%
  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT
    2× · 2017–2018 · $106k · revenue +93%
  • EC
    ENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $88k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • CT
    CAPITOL THEATRE
    one grant, 2017 · $3.0M
  • SM
    SLOAN MUSEUM
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M
  • FC
    FREEDOM CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $300k

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.

1
Flint & Genesee Group

To promote the common economic interests of all the commercial enterprises in the Genesee County, Michigan community. The Organization strives to enhance the business climate in the area and advocates for public policy that supports…

Community Improvement
2
Child Welfare Society of Flint
—
3
Flint Cultural Center Corporation

The mission of the Flint Cultural Center Corporation (FCCC) is to foster cultural activity and community vitality through history, science and the arts. FCCC owns, manages and maintains a 35-acre Cultural Center campus; coordinates…

Arts & Culture
4
Greater Flint Health Coalition Inc

Improve the health of genesee county residents. improve the quality and cost effectiveness of the health care system in our community.

Health
5
The Flint Children's Museum

To inspire a love for learning in science, technology, engineering, math, and art, and awaken imagination through hands-on play.

Arts & Culture
6
Flint Public Art Project

Non Profit Art Organization

Community Improvement
7
Flint Center for Educational Excellence

The flint center for educational excellence is building an educational ecosystem that works for all flint kids by providing programs. research, and advocacy that ensure flint kids, their families, schools, and communities thrive.

Education
8
Greater Flint Arts Council

To be a catalyst of and advocate for increased artistic and cultural enrichment of an ethnically diverse community

—
9
Ferris Wheel Innovation Center

Housed in flint, michigan, we are a non-profit with a mission to relieve the innovator of the entrepreneurial burden. we know entrepreneurship can be difficult, and that's why we're here to help. as a community of student professionals,…

Education
10
Flint Jewish Federation

To further the welfare of the jewish community

Philanthropy
11
Foundation for Flint

To support and benefit the community foundation of greater flint. the organization will address a wide variety of community needs in greater flint, and its immediate priority is to provide aid to those affected by the flint water crisis.

Philanthropy
12
Foundation for the Flint Cultural Center

The foundation for the flint cultural center is committed to improving the quality of life in genesee county through support of the flint cultural center and its various entities. to act on this commitment, the foundation for the flint…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Flint and the most unlike its peers is GEARUP2LEAD. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDisability Services & Suppo…Flint Community DevelopmentFaith-Based Community Suppo…Healthcare System OperationsGenesee County Community Se…Emergency Assistance & Shel…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr13%5%5–10yr17%28%10–20yr13%21%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr20%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr13%1%5–10yr17%28%10–20yr13%26%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr20%25%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
16%
272/1,683

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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 59 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CAPITOL THEATRE — $3,000,000 · OtherCAPITOL THEATRESLOAN MUSEUM — $1,000,000 · OtherSLOAN MUSEUMFREEDOM CENTER — $300,000 · OtherFREEDOM CENTER+35 more — $778,598 · Other+35 moreYOUNG LIFE — $152,800 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT — $106,000 · Youth DevelopmentELE'S PLACE INC — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHELTER OF FLINT INC — $147,856 · Housing & ShelterCommunities First Inc — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterEVERGREEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPEMENT IN — $141,000 · HealthPINK FUND INC — $80,000 · HealthCarriage Town Ministries — $130,000 · Arts & CultureTAPOLOGY INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureFlint Institute of Music — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHOSEN FEW ARTS COUNCIL — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFlint Institute of Arts — $9,111 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC — $87,849 · Human ServicesWhaley Children's Center Inc — $28,500 · Human ServicesCAMP CASEY CORPORATION — $25,000 · Human Services+1 more — $500 · Human ServicesTHE FLINT DIAPER BANK INC — $40,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT — $10,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE ALLEY LTD — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$5,078,598Youth Development$318,800Housing & Shelter$247,856Health$221,000Arts & Culture$179,111Human Services$141,849Philanthropy$85,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYOUNG LIFE — $152,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER OF FLINT INC — $147,856 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetEVERGREEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPEMENT IN — $141,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetCarriage Town Ministries — $130,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT — $106,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCommunities First Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC — $87,849 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGenesee Area Focus Fund — $80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMOTHERLY INTERCESSION — $70,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetELE'S PLACE INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBuckham Fine Arts Project — $56,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetHURLEY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHRIST ENRICHMENT CENTER — $40,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetYMCA of Greater Flint — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FLINT DIAPER BANK INC — $40,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetSYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE — $40,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE CRIM FITNESS FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWhaley Children's Center Inc — $28,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP CASEY CORPORATION — $25,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD ENGAGEMENT HUB — $20,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetFaith Foundation Resources — $15,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTAPOLOGY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSONNY CARTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetYOUTH ARTS UNLOCKED — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFlint Institute of Music — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFlint River Watershed Coalition — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFlint Institute of Arts — $9,111 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEARUP2LEAD — $6,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetOLD NEWSBOYS OF FLINT INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAFE HOUSE PROJECT INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCRIME STOPPERS OF FLINT & GENESEE COUNTY — $2,490 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER FLINT — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFERRIS FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Charles Stewart Mott …Community Foundation …Stella & Frederick Lo…Ruth Mott FoundationAnna Paulina Foundati…Consumers Energy Foun…The Serra FoundationNartel Family Foundat…Child Welfare Society…Burroughs Memorial Tr…Merkley Charitable Tr…The Whiting Foundation
Charles Stewart Mott FoundationMI66.1× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Ruth Mott Foundation · Anna Paulina Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Serra Foundation · Nartel Family Foundation · Child Welfare Society of Flint · Burroughs Memorial Trust · Merkley Charitable Trust · The Whiting 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 Hagerman 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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
    18report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Hagerman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Hagerman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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