· Private foundation
The Pokagon Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k86 grants · $295k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $174k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $620k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $213,333 |
| CITY OF NEW BUFFALO | $150,000 |
| NEIGHBOR BY NEIGHBOR | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $106,667 |
| CITY OF NEW BUFFALO | $37,500 |
| RIVER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $22,605 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,483 |
| SENIOR NUTRITION SERVICESMEALS ON WHEEL SW MI | $18,000 |
| NEW BUFFALO AREA SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| RIVER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $15,000 |
| CARING CONNECTION | $15,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA WEST MI | $12,000 |
| SCHOOL OF AMERICAN MUSIC | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE BNAI SHALOM UNITED THROUGH MOTHERHOOD | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 24% of The Pokagon Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 68%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
108 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 66 since wound down; 24 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FAFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN9× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +38%
- UOUniversity of Michigan7× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +202%
- SOSCHOOL OF AMERICAN MUSIC7× · 2019–2025 · $72k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGANone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +8%
- VOVILLAGE OF GRAND BEACHone grant, 2022 · $58k
- TPTHE POKAGON FUND INCone grant, 2019 · $47k · revenue +19%
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.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Bradley university empowers students for immediate and sustained success in their personal and professional endeavors by combining professional preparation, liberal arts and sciences, and co-curricular experiences. alongside our dedication…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of madonna university, a catholic and franciscan institution of higher learning, is to instill in its students christain humanistic values, intellectual inquiry, a respect for university and a committment to serving others…
The mission of baker college is to provide an inclusive, innovative, and transformative educational experience which allows students to positively impact their lives and the world around them.
How this is measured
104 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. 104 of the 274 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
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
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 Neighbor by Neighbor ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN GATEWAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHOLD DANCE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE POKAGON FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP MILLHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR NUTRITION SERVICES REG IV INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds POTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW BUFFALO RAILROAD MUSEUM ↗
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: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Muessel Ellison Mem Irr Tua · Klockow Harvey R and Doris Fdn · Clark Sa & Fp Mem Fd Irr Tua · Asante Foundation Inc · Fields Foundation Irr Tua
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Pokagon Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pokagon Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
- Jacksonville University: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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