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The Hagerman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
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.
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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $153k · revenue +59%
  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT
    2× · 2017–2018 · $106k · revenue +67%
  • EC
    ENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $88k · revenue +75%

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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Flint; 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.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 59 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE ALLEY LTD: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$5,078,598Youth Development$318,800Housing & Shelter$247,856Health$221,000Arts & Culture$179,111Human Services$141,849Philanthropy$85,000

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 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 budgetYMCA of Greater Flint: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSYLVESTER BROOME EMPOWERMENT VILLAGE: $40,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE FLINT DIAPER BANK INC: $40,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCHRIST ENRICHMENT CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 16% 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 budgetTAPOLOGY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetFaith Foundation Resources: $15,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetFlint Institute of Music: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSONNY CARTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFlint River Watershed Coalition: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetYOUTH ARTS UNLOCKED: $10,000 over 1y, 12% 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 budgetSAFE HOUSE PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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
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.

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.

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

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 Hagerman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hagerman 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%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
    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.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 59 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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