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The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation at a glance

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The Patricia and David Kepler 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.

$253k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$966kPhilanthropy$919kHealth$490kPublic Benefit$335kArts & Culture$315kRecreation & Sports$310kHuman Services$304kCommunity Improvement$160kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIDLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC$75,000
GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CENTERS INC$50,000
UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND COUNTY$50,000
MIDLAND SOCCER CLUB$15,000
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATI$10,000
MIDLAND COMMUNITY CANCER SERVICES$10,000
MACKINAC CENTER$10,000
TEMPLEARTS$10,000
BLESSED SACRAMENT PARISH OF MIDLAND$10,000
MIDLAND COMMUNITY FORMER OFFENDER ADVOCACY AND REH$5,000
MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIDLAND COUNTY INC$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $312k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $10k → 14%GREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER: $2k → 19%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $10k → 14%MIDLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $100k → 9%WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER: $2k → 19%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $10k → 14%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $10k → 14%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $10k → 14%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAGINAW: $10k → 18%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $10k → 14%TONI AND TRISH HOUSE CARE FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL: $1k → 14%COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $2k → 9%SELF LOVE BEAUTY: $2k → 9%COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $100k → 9%INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY LIVING INC: $10k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICE OF MID- MICHIGAN INC: $4k → 9%COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $3k → 9%COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $3k → 9%SELF LOVE BEAUTY: $2k → 9%SELF LOVE BEAUTY: $2k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICE OF MID- MICHIGAN INC: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NV
CA
VA
TN
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Patricia and David Kepler Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 40 repeat orgs$283k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
23

Total granted

$3.9M
$258k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+11%

Still filing today

90%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FL
    Four Lakes Task Force
    3× · 2018–2021 · $840k · revenue ×322 · 48% of their budget
  • MC
    Midland Center for the Arts Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +85%
  • MC
    MACKINAC CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $345k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • MC
    MIDLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -4%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • PT
    PITS TO PETS RESCUE
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
2
Michigan Advocacy Program

To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.

Crime & Legal
3
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
4
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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5
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Midland Camping Council Inc

To provide facilities for nonprofit organizations to enjoy the experience of nature in michigan, promote ourdoor education, and to offer camping enjoyment to the people of midland county.

Recreation & Sports
7
Home Builders Association of Michigan

A voice of the building industry in Michigan. The primary purpose is to positively influence the legislative, regulatory and legal issues that affect the industry.

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8
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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9
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
10
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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11
Midland Ctr for Accessible Health Care

Helping Hands Dental Center is the community's primary nonprofit agency promoting oral health initiatives and providing dental services for Medicaid eligible adults.

Health
12
Center for Family Health

The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Midland Family Center; the most unlike its peers is Shores of the Mitten Animal Rescue and Transport. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 67 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
42/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United Way of Midland County: $596,500 · OtherUnited Way of Midland CountyMidland County Cancer Society DBA Cancer Services: $149,999 · OtherMidland County Cancer Society DBA Cancer Service…BLESSED SACRAMENT PARISH: $75,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $75,000 · OtherBLESSED SACRAMENT PARISH OF MIDLAND: $70,000 · OtherGREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC: $252,200 · OtherGREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INCMIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE FNDN: $150,000 · OtherMIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE FNDNMICHIGAN BASEBALL FOUNDATION INC: $77,000 · Other+35 more: $554,780 · Other+35 moreFour Lakes Task Force: $840,000 · EnvironmentFour Lakes Task ForceThe Little Forks Conservancy Inc: $50,000 · EnvironmentThe Little Forks Cons…+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentMidland Center for the Arts Inc: $390,100 · Arts & CultureMidland C…+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $372,725 · PhilanthropyMIDLAND A…+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTEN SIXTEEN RECOVERY NETWORK: $209,000 · HealthMICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE: $100,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 · Health+2 more: $8,500 · HealthMACKINAC CENTER: $345,000 · Public BenefitCOUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: $107,000 · Human ServicesMIDLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $60,000 · Human Services+8 more: $48,500 · Human Services
Other$2,000,479Environment$891,000Arts & Culture$400,100Philanthropy$373,725Health$348,000Public Benefit$345,000Human Services$315,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFour Lakes Task Force: $840,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetUnited Way of Midland County: $596,500 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetMidland Center for the Arts Inc: $390,100 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $372,725 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $345,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC: $252,200 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTEN SIXTEEN RECOVERY NETWORK: $209,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE FNDN: $150,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetMidland County Cancer Society DBA Cancer Services: $149,999 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetCOUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT: $107,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE: $100,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMIDLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMICHIGAN BASEBALL FOUNDATION INC: $77,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPawtastic Friends Inc: $58,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetMichigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America: $55,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Little Forks Conservancy Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetMIDLAND AREA HOMES INC: $50,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwood University: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAU BETA PI ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMIDLAND SOCCER CLUB: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHumane Society of Midland County: $12,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Great Lakes Bay Region: $12,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetReaching Our Community Kids: $12,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC-SAGINAW: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE PARK ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetIndependent Community Living Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMidland Center for Independent Living: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSELF LOVE BEAUTY: $5,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMidland's Open Door: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCARSON CITY MUNICIPAL GOLF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFamily & Children's Services of Mid-Michigan Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMidland County Food Assistance Network: $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetADOPTION OPTION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEagle Village Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFISH TALES: $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetChildrens Grief Center of the Great Lakes Bay Region: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMidland County Child Protection Council: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTONI & TRISH HOUSE FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOS (STRAY OR STRANDED) ANIMAL RESCUE: $1,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHIPPEWA NATURE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReece Endeavor of Midland: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Midland Area Communit…The Charles J Strosac…United Way of Midland…Harry a and Margaret …Rollin M Gerstacker F…Consumers Energy Foun…The Herbert H & Grace…Bay Area Community Fo…Bierlein Companies Fo…Bill and Linda Stavro…Alden and Vada Dow Fu…Saginaw Community Fou…
Midland Area Community FoundationMI91.3× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Midland Area Community Foundation · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · United Way of Midland County · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Bill and Linda Stavropoulos Family Foundation · Alden and Vada Dow Fund · Saginaw Community Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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