· Private foundation
The Sally Guzowski 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRANKFORT-ELBENTRA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHICAGN | $25,000 |
| HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GENERATIONS AHEAD | $15,000 |
| BENZIE AREA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $15,000 |
| LEELANAU EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT | $10,000 |
| LEELANAU COUNTY CANCER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $10,000 |
| LEELANAU COUNTY PROSPECTORS CLUB | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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 +82% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- CFCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC5× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +13%
- TETHE ELIZABETH LANE OLIVER CENTER FOR THE ARTS3× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +91%
- GAGENERATIONS AHEAD3× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +223%
Funded once
- FOFriends of Benzie School District Libraryone grant, 2022 · $100k
- TCTRAVERSE CITY WEST ATHLETIC BOOSTERone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +16%
- FOFriends of Benzie Shores Libraryone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
Provide developmentally appropriate early childhood education.
To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.
Support government units & nonprofits in economic development
Promote local safety education throughout Michigan
To support public charities in the leelanau township area and award educational scholarships.
The mission of the Copper Country Suzuki Association is to help every child to find the joy that comes through music making. Children thrive in a total environment of support: they develop confidence and self-esteem, determination to try…
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.
To provide opportunities that enrich the multi-generational relationships in Leelanau County.
To provide a safe, nuturing place for children at risk of abuse or neglect and to strentghen families through prevention, advocacy and other programs driven by community neeeds, primarily in the manistee county area.
Youth baseball and softball recreational league
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Traverse Bay Childrens Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Frankfort-Elberta Education Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 21 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 CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKFORT-ELBERTA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELIZABETH LANE OLIVER CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS AHEAD ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE CITY WEST ATHLETIC BOOSTER ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Leelanau County Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds BENZIE AREA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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 Traverse Regional Community Foundation · The Broad Family Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · United Way of Northwest Michigan · Oleson Foundation · The Carls Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Sally Guzowski 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.