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The Isabel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADVENTURE UNLIMITED | $250,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST BOSTON THE | $200,000 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $150,000 |
| PRINCIPIA THE | $150,000 |
| LEAVES INC THE | $125,000 |
| CAMPERSHIP FUND FOR CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS IN THE SE AND MW | $100,000 |
| HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES | $100,000 |
| CRYSTAL LAKE CAMPS INC | $100,000 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $85,000 |
| CEDARS CAMPS THE | $75,000 |
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY | $75,000 |
| CAMPS NEWFOUNDOWATONNA CORPORATION | $75,000 |
| CAMPS LEELANAU & KOHAHNA FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
| CRYSTAL LAKE CAMPS INC | $75,000 |
| ARDEN WOOD INC | $60,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
76 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k 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
- AUADVENTURE UNLIMITED9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +122%
- TPThe Principia Corporation9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +88%
- TCThe Cedars Camps Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $678k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- GTGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $120k · revenue +203%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR UPTOWN REINVESTMENTgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +559%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR FIELD RESEARCHone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
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.
Providing financial support to non-profit care facilities for nursing/care.
The christ college of nursing and health sciences, guided by its core values and enriched by a foundation in the arts and sciences, prepares individuals both for delivery of healthcare that promotes the well-being of a dynamic society and…
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Christian Healthcare Specialists exists to provide exceptional medical services to the community, guided by Biblical values.
To support proper care and an atmosphere expectant of healing through Christian Science nursing.
Christian Health Care Center is a skilled nursing facility which provides housing services designed to meet the needs of older residents of Lynden Washington regardless of their ability to pay.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunrise Haven and the most unlike its peers is Hymnstream. 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 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 102 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 ADVENTURE UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds The Principia Corporation ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds The Cedars Camps Inc ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL LAKE CAMPS INC ↗
- Who funds ARDEN WOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Flint Cultural Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds Camp Newfound Owatonna Corporation ↗
- Who funds Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association ↗
- Who funds CAMP LEELANAU AND KOHAHNA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Leaves Inc ↗
- Who funds Broadview Inc ↗
- Who funds PEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WIDE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds TWELVEACRES INC ↗
- Who funds Fern Lodge Inc ↗
- Who funds GLENMONT ↗
- Who funds E3 ELEVATING EDUCATION EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP BOW-ISLE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds DAYSTAR INC ↗
- Who funds Lynn House of Potomac Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNLAND HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Link School ↗
- Who funds THE ALBERT BAKER FUND ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE OF AFRICA SCHOOL CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRINCIPLE FOUNDATION EXTENDED SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Science & History ↗
- Who funds THE PRINCIPLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
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.
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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 Isabel 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.
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% 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.
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