· Private foundation
The Pyle 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $6,000 |
| MENOMINEE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,038 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BRIDGE MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MAYFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
| FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS | $450 |
| MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART | $300 |
| SWEET HOUSE FOUNDATION | $250 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $150 |
| GRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA | $100 |
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 (FY22–23, $700) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MCMACKINAC CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +64%
- GLGREAT LAKES LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ASSOCIATION6× · 2019–2024 · $5k · revenue +10%
- GRGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · $1k · revenue +217%
Funded once
- MSMICHIGAN SHIPWRECK RESEARCH ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $2k
- CPCK PIER BADGER CAMP 1one grant, 2021 · $700
- TATHE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +23%
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.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special
The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
Mission statement of the midwest museum: encouraging our community's appreciation of natural history using shared experiences through collections, exhibits, and education.
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Preserving the history of our area brings an understanding to the past and present, and provides a guide for the future. we not only maintain exhibits, artifacts and a research library, we provide a forum for engaging the community and…
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
The primary role of the grand rapids public museum foundation is fundraising for the grand rapids public museum, but it also has overall responsibility for the current and long-term viability of the organization.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Houghton County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 66 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
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.
- Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Menominee Range Historical Foundation ↗
- Who funds Land Conservancy of West Michigan ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SWEET HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HISTORY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Historical Society of Michigan ↗
- Who funds THE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EAST GRAND RAPIDS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Yellowstone Historic Center Inc ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE PURPLE ROSE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SAUGATUCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Frey Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Korff Foundation · Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · The Sebastian Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Community Foundation for Muskegon County
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 Pyle 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.
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.