· Private foundation
The Thomas and Maria Yeager Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of THE THOMAS AND MARIA YEAGER FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| READINESS CENTER | $1,000 |
| LORY'S PLACE | $938 |
| ST JOSEPH SCHOOLS | $250 |
| NEW HORIZONS OF SWFL | $100 |
| ST JOSEPH LINCOLN SENIOR SERVICE CENTER | $50 |
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 (FY17–23, $1k) 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 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.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400 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
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN3× · 2018–2022 · $21k · revenue -25%
- SJST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2023 · $12k · revenue -28%
- PFPENNIES FROM HEAVEN2× · 2019–2020 · $7k
Funded once
- LHLAKELAND HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
- CKCURIOUS KIDS MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +29%
- GFGOOD FELLOW FUNDone grant, 2017 · $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.
To help residents live to their fullest potential, recognizing the changing needs of each person.
We preserve and explore history, creating spaces where our communities' stories can be told.
Surrounding seniors with the care you need to remain in the home you love.
Animal shelter - provide a safe haven for animals without homes.
The historical society of saginaw county is committed to serve the community by telling the continuing story of the people of the saginaw region through exploration, preservation and presentation of their historical and cultural heritage.
Our mission is to promote the humane treatment and responsible care of animals in west michigan through education, example, placement and protection.
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
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.
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
To support and promote a means for maintaining a senior center in order to achieve specific goals, based on the needs and interests of older persons, those 50 and older except for those programs that receive state and federal funding which…
The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…
To provide compassionate in-home skilled nursing care and supportive resources for those affected by cancer and related illnesses in southwest michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Avenue Family Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Joseph Public Schools Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 17 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hospice at Home Inc ↗
- Who funds CURIOUS KIDS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds READINESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE AVENUE FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH-LINCOLN SENIOR SERVICE CENTER 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: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · Hanson Family Foundation · The Marzke Family Foundation · Whirlpool Foundation · St Josephbenton Harbor Rotary Foundation Inc · The Covia Foundation · 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 Thomas and Maria Yeager Family 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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