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THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC at a glance

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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.

$42M
Granted FY2025still arriving
78
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$37MHealth$18MArts & Culture$9.8MYouth Development$9.2MRecreation & Sports$7.1MHousing & Shelter$6.0MPublic Benefit$4.4MCommunity Improvement$4.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $208k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+30 grants · $41M
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
KENT COUNTY PARKS DEPT$1,165,230
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GR$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
GR FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION$582,615
DOWNTOWN GRAND RAPIDS INC$582,615
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DOING GOOD TOGETHER: $1k → 11%Samaritas: $5k → 21%Doing Good Together: $1k → 11%Doing Good Together: $1k → 11%Tri Cities Family YMCA: $1k → 8%DOING GOOD TOGETHER: $1k → 11%Tri Cities Family YMCA: $1k → 8%DOING GOOD TOGETHER: $1k → 11%Baxter Community Center: $500k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $262k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 11%Baxter Community Center: $50k → 11%BAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 11%Baxter Community Center: $50k → 11%Baxter Community Center: $50k → 11%Baxter Community Center: $1k → 11%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
NY
MA
CA
VA
AZ
DC
TX
FL
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.
04

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 PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INClessmore 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$87M · 99 repeat orgs$18M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

99
118

Total granted

$87M
$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+20%

Still filing today

46%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GR
    GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +302% · 28% of their budget
  • GR
    GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY LEGENDS
    5× · 2018–2025 · $3.4M · revenue ×649 · 98% of their budget
  • JB
    JOHN BALL ZOO
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • MF
    Mary Free Bed Hosp Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $5.0M
  • TG
    THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $2.0M · revenue ×14
  • GA
    GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M
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
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
2
Grand Rapids Area Community Foundation

Inspire individuals and organizations to invest in their community to improve the quality of life.

Community Improvement
3
Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy

The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.

Environment
4
University Corporate Research Park I Inc

To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.

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5
Michigan Legacy Art Park

Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.

Arts & Culture
6
Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services
7
Great Mn Schools

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.

Education
8
West Bend Community Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
9
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
10
Detroit Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Grand Rapids Symphony Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Grand View University

Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Rapids Community College Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

79 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. 79 of the 238 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/79
Grantees still filing
46/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $24,510,688 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYMARY FREE BED FOUNDATION: $15,018,000 · OtherMARY FREE BED FOUNDATIONGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $5,537,500 · OtherGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYMary Free Bed Hosp Foundation: $5,005,000 · OtherMary Free Bed Hosp FoundationST MARYS FOUNDATION: $3,041,000 · Other+153 more: $26,983,785 · Other+153 moreBurr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State: $6,445,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY LEGENDS: $3,411,568 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC: $1,206,829 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Arts & CultureGirls Choral Academy: $200,500 · Arts & CultureOpera Grand Rapids: $178,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $64,000 · Arts & CultureGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $3,917,829 · EducationAquinas College: $565,000 · EducationGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Education+13 more: $425,500 · EducationWEST MICHIGAN SPORTS COMMISSION: $1,505,000 · Recreation & SportsGRAND RAPIDS WHITEWATER INC: $911,090 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $450,500 · Recreation & SportsOTTAWA COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $21,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $170,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $7,000 · PhilanthropyJOHN BALL ZOO: $2,050,000 · Animals
Other$80,095,973Youth Development$6,447,000Arts & Culture$5,311,397Education$5,108,329Recreation & Sports$3,187,590Philanthropy$2,177,000Animals$2,050,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $3,917,829 over 5y, 28% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY LEGENDS: $3,411,568 over 5y, 98% of budgetJOHN BALL ZOO: $2,050,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN SPORTS COMMISSION: $1,505,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetNATIONAL ITALIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATIONINC: $1,206,829 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN: $1,206,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBAXTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,013,107 over 7y, 22% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS WHITEWATER INC: $911,090 over 2y, 24% of budgetKENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION: $806,307 over 5y, 24% of budgetAquinas College: $565,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $450,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetOTTAWA COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS YOUTH COMMONWEALTH INC: $300,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGirls Choral Academy: $200,500 over 4y, 23% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetOpera Grand Rapids: $178,500 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $170,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSilent Observer of West Michigan: $66,761 over 4y, 57% of budgetEAST GRAND RAPIDS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $60,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFANS OF VALLEY FIELD: $50,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetARTPRIZE GRAND RAPIDS: $30,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetFIRST STEPS KENT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF GREATER NEW YORK CITY INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMAMARONECK SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF GRAND RAPIDS PARKS: $11,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN AVIATION ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWestchester Children's Chorus Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetARMED FORCES THANKSGIVING: $6,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORP: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOING GOOD TOGETHER: $5,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSUCCESS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEEPLETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State ↗
  • Who funds GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Frey FoundationGrand Rapids Communit…Douglas & Maria Devos…Peter C & Emajean Coo…The Meijer FoundationDick and Betsy Devos …The Wege FoundationDaniel & Pamella Devo…The David and Carol V…Steelcase FoundationSteve & Amy Van Andel…Cdv5 Foundation
Frey FoundationMI73.5× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%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
    1get no government money at all
    23report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 238 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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