· Private foundation
The Shyft Group Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
97% of The Shyft Group Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Shyft Group Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $62k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k13 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEAT AND WARMTH FUND | $25,000 |
| EATON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| WAVERLY ROBOTICS PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| CASA FOR KIDS INC | $5,000 |
| THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SIREN-EATON SHELTER INC | $2,500 |
| CHARLOTTE FRONTIER DAYS | $2,500 |
| DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| ALFOND YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC | $1,000 |
| R J SCHEFFEL MEMORIAL TOY PROJECT INC | $1,000 |
| CHARLOTTE SPORTS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MASON OPTIMIST CLUB | $1,000 |
| OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +49% since the first grant, against -31% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- AYALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER2× · 2021–2022 · $8k · revenue +34%
- CFCharlotte Frontieer Days Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +49%
- CFCASA FOR KIDS INC2× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- ECEATON COMMUNITY HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -75%
- ECEaton Community Palliative Careone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue -17%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Care. serve. inspire.
To apply the principles of workforce development to grow michigan's economy while improving the lives of michigan workers.
The mission of the akron-canton regional foodbank is to lead a collaborative network that empowers people to experience healthy and hunger-free lives. we distribute food to feed people and we advocate, engage and convene our community in…
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
The erie community foundation works to improve the quality of life for all in our region by evaluating and addressing community issues, building permanent charitable endowments, and by promoting philanthropic and community leadership.
The citizens utility board (cub) of minnesota champions affordable, reliable, safe, and clean home energy for all minnesotans.
The mission of the capital region community foundation is to lead philanthropic solutions that build vibrant communities in ingham, eaton and clinton counties.
To identify, activate, and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community. we accomplish this by:- building a permanent source of charitable funding- cultivating strategic…
Form 990, Part III, Line 1 Organizations MissionFarm Bureau is a free independent, non-governmental, voluntary organization of farm families united for the purpose of analyzing their problems and formulating action to achieve educational…
To provide financial services to members with a common bond.
The allegan county agricultural society presents various events during the year which provide entertainment, educational and work opportunities for the youth groups such as 4-h.
Receive and Administer funds for the public welfare of the people of Huron County, Michigan
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eaton Community Health and the most unlike its peers is Charlotte Frontieer Days Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 35 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds EATON COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND ↗
- Who funds Eaton County Agricultural Society ↗
- Who funds Eaton Community Palliative Care ↗
- Who funds ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Frontieer Days Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds Eaton Area Senior Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SIREN EATON SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Capital Area United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds R J SCHEFFEL MEMORIAL TOY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Athletic Boosters ↗
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: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Shyft Group 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.
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