· Private foundation
The Julius H and Barbara B Beers 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of THE JULIUS H AND BARBARA B BEERS FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| FATHER FRED FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| TRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| TART TRAILS | $3,000 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE | $3,000 |
| NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING | $3,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN | $3,000 |
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, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FFFATHER FRED FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +15%
- THTRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +66%
- CHCHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +302%
Funded once
- PCPENINSULA COMMUNITY LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
To help provide safe, accessible, and affordable housing in Northwest Michigan.
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Habitat for humanity - grand traverse region is an ecumenical christian housing ministry. the organization works in partnership with people to improve the conditions in which they live by providing affordable housing. habitat challenges…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To provide financial assistance to individuals and institutions for educational and scientific purposes in order to advance science to benefit the health and welfare of animals.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
We advocate and facilitate the development of a network of multipurpose recreational trails in Northern Lower Michigan.
Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
A provider of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) which is a community-based, long-term care delivery program that provides comprehensive, coordinated, managed care to eligible participants.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Michigan Community Action and the most unlike its peers is Cherryland Humane Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 29 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 FATHER FRED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Grand Traverse Pavilions Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
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: The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Consumers Energy Foundation · William G Janis & Susanne M Janis Family Foundation · Jim and Diana Huckle Family Foundation · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · Green Brick Foundation Inc · The Brookby Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Dte Energy 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 Julius H and Barbara B Beers Family 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.
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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