· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| TRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| FATHER FRED FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING | $3,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN | $3,000 |
| TART TRAILS | $3,000 |
| TRAVERSE BAY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $3,000 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +66%
- FFFATHER FRED FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +15%
- CHCHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +302%
Funded once
- PCPENINSULA COMMUNITY LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION ↗
- Who funds FATHER FRED FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Julius H and Barbara B Beers Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Julius H and Barbara B Beers Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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