· Private foundation
The Hougen Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $148k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCLAREN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | $30,000 |
| FENTON AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $18,000 |
| EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $15,000 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| FLINT POLICE FUND | $10,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| GENESYS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| KETTERING UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAIN CLINIC | $5,000 |
| CARRIAGE TOWN MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against -40% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- KUKettering University8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +42%
- HFHURLEY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +74%
- MFMCLAREN FLINT FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $90k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- ASAUTISM SPEAKS INCone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -43%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +46%- OAOFFERING ALTERNATIVE THERAPY WITH SMILESone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue -40%
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.
As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Henry ford health macomb hospital (hfmh) is an affiliate of henry ford health system dba henry ford health ("hf health") serving the northeastern metropolitan detroit michigan communities. as an integrated component of one of the nation's…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
OMRF is dedicated to developing a better understanding of more effective treatments for human disease.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.
As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mclaren Flint Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Michigan Robotics Foundation. 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.
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 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 41 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 Kettering University ↗
- Who funds HURLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN FLINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH GENESYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Whaley Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PRESCOTT PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC HEART TRANSPLANT SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Carriage Town Ministries ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION ENDURING WARRIOR ↗
- Who funds SAM BEAUFORD WOODWORKING INST ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds TARPON SPRINGS BAND BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Pasco Sheriff's Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COPD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OFFERING ALTERNATIVE THERAPY WITH SMILES ↗
- Who funds Michigan Robotics Foundation ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Flint · The Serra Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Hougen 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.