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The Larry J Fleis Pe Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$244kHuman Services$58kReligion$38kHousing & Shelter$22kAnimals$17kCivil Rights$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kPublic Benefit$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$27,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$79k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ED & IRENE FLEIS EDUCATION FUND$27,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 58% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TURNING POINT: $2k → 11%HOMES FOR OUR TROUPS: $9k → 11%JUDICIAL WATCH: $3k → 14%SAFE WATER INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES: $4k → 10%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 7%NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%POSITIVE OPTIONS: $200 → 10%ST PATRICK CHURCH: $13k → 11%ED & IRENE FLEIS EDUCATION FUND: $29k → 15%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $51k → 16%HEART OF THE NATION: $1k → 17%CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $8k → 19%DISABLED AMERICAN VETERENS: $8k → 10%TURNING POINT: $500 → 11%HOLY ROSARY CHURCH: $1k → 7%SAFE HARBOR: $5k → 10%ST PATRICK CHURCH: $8k → 11%ED & IRENE FLEIS EDUCATION FUND: $27k → 15%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%TURNING POINT: $500 → 11%ST MARY SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%ST PATRICK SCHOOL-ENDOWMENT FUND: $8k → 11%ED & IRENE FLEIS EDUCATION FUND: $21k → 15%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%ST MARY SCHOOL: $6k → 7%ST PATRICK CHURCH-CATHOLIC SERVICES APPEAL: $5k → 11%ED & IRENE FLEIS EDUCATION FUND: $18k → 15%LEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS: $5k → 7%ST PATRICK SCHOOL: $3k → 11%ED & IRENE FLEIS EDUCATION FUND: $16k → 15%LEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS: $3k → 7%IN THE IMAGE: $13k → 11%ED & IRENE FLEIS EDUCATION FUND: $15k → 15%ST PATRICK CHURCH: $3k → 11%HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH: $300 → 11%HAITI NEEDS YOU: $250 → 11%HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH: $150 → 11%REACH FORGOTTEN MINISTRIES: $2k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST MICHIGAN: $20k → 11%OUR SHEPARDS OUR FUTURE: $17k → 11%DA BLODGETT-STJOHNS: $9k → 11%MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES: $8k → 11%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY-KENT COUNTY: $5k → 11%MISSION COOPERATION PLAN: $200 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$253k · 7 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
27

Total granted

$253k
$156k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
0%

Still filing today

43%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterInternationalOther

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

  • EI
    ED & IRENE FLEIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $126k · revenue -3%
  • MS
    MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $91k
  • SP
    ST PATRICK CHURCH
    3× · 2021–2023 · $23k

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -16%
  • OS
    OUR SHEPARDS OUR FUTURE
    one grant, 2021 · $17k
  • M2
    MATTHEW 2540 HEARTSIDE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -23%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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West Michigan Christian Foundation

None

Religion
2
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
3
Michigan Christian Home

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…

4
Found in Faith Ministries Inc Dba Fresh Start Furnishings

We provide furniture and home goods to families and individuals that financially qualify for our program. our current focus area is harford county, maryland but are happy to give referrals to resources in other counties when possible.

Human Services
5
Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Metro Atlanta Inc

Habitat for humanity of northwest metro atlanta, inc. is an affiliate of the americus-based habitat for humanity international. habitat for humanity of northwest metro atlanta, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry dedicated to…

6
Movement West Michigan

Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.

Religion
7
Mariners Inn

To provide 24-hour residential substance abuse treatment for adult homeless men in a professional, compassionate, and therapeutic environment conducive to reducing drug and alcohol addiction and promoting their return to health,…

Health
8
Northern Michigan Catholic Foundation

The foundation is organized to support financially the spiritual, educational, and social needs of the local roman catholic community within the diocese of gaylord and to provide responsible and effective fundraising, financial management,…

Religion
9
Hope House of Northwest Michigan

Hope house of northwest michigan is a non-profit christian maternity home that provides a safe loving residential environment for single expectant young women. through up to two years of residence the organization offers housing baby…

Human Services
10
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
11
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
12
The New Foster Care

The new foster care will show the love of jesus christ by making a measurable, meaningful, and transformative change in the michigan foster care system and in the lives of those who have experienced foster care by: 1) providing direct…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ed & Irene Fleis Education Foundation. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY — $90,700 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYST PATRICK CHURCH — $22,500 · OtherST PATRICK CHURCHCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN — $20,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGANOUR SHEPARDS OUR FUTURE — $16,700 · OtherOUR SHEPARDS OUR FUTUREMATTHEW 2540 HEARTSIDE INC — $12,500 · OtherDA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S — $9,000 · Other+19 more — $70,600 · Other+19 moreED & IRENE FLEIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $126,360 · PhilanthropyED & IRENE FLEIS EDUCATION FOUNDAT…LEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC — $7,500 · ReligionREFORM AMERICA — $5,000 · ReligionST MARY SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $500 · EducationHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $9,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $2,500 · Public BenefitSAFE WATER INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES — $4,000 · International
Other$242,000Philanthropy$126,360Religion$12,500Education$10,500Housing & Shelter$9,000Public Benefit$5,000International$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetED & IRENE FLEIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $126,360 over 6y, 10% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMATTHEW 2540 HEARTSIDE INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetREFORM AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE WATER INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES — $4,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ED & IRENE FLEIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN
  • Who funds MATTHEW 2540 HEARTSIDE INC
  • Who funds ST MARY SCHOOL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC
  • Who funds DA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S
  • Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES
  • Who funds LEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC
  • Who funds REFORM AMERICA
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC
  • Who funds SAFE WATER INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE 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.

Oleson FoundationMI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oleson Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Larry J Fleis Pe 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.

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no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Larry J Fleis Pe Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Larry J Fleis Pe Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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