· Private foundation
THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $208k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+30 grants · $41M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARY FREE BED FOUNDATION | $10,000,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,962,688 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,500,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY LEGENDS | $2,496,412 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $1,500,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GR | $1,165,230 |
| KENT COUNTY PARKS DEPT | $1,165,230 |
| NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FNDN | $1,106,829 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| WEST MICHIGAN AVIATION ACADEMY | $873,922 |
| GRAND RAPIDS WHITEWATER | $811,090 |
| GEO AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION | $582,615 |
| DOWNTOWN GRAND RAPIDS INC | $582,615 |
| GR FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION | $582,615 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
99 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 20 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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
- GRGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +302% · 28% of their budget
- GRGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY LEGENDS5× · 2018–2025 · $3.4M · revenue ×649 · 98% of their budget
- JBJOHN BALL ZOO2× · 2021–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +65%
Funded once
- MFMary Free Bed Hosp Foundationone grant, 2022 · $5.0M
- TGTHE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $2.0M · revenue ×14
- WMWEST MICHIGAN SPORTS COMMone grant, 2024 · $1.0M
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.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Inspire individuals and organizations to invest in their community to improve the quality of life.
The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.
To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
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.…
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Supports the operations and programs of the grand rapids symphony society by sustaining the orchestra's concert, music education and accessibility programming across west michigan.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Rapids Community College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Gibson Foundation Gibson. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 238 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY LEGENDS ↗
- Who funds JOHN BALL ZOO ↗
- Who funds THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS WHITEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Aquinas College ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Frey Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · Steelcase Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Cdv5 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 PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC 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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