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The Thomas and Maria Yeager Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
6
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$938
Largest grant, FY2023
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$40k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Thomas and Maria Yeager Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureAnimalsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20236$7k50%
FY20224$22k25%
FY20211$2k0%
FY20203$8k0%
FY20195$11k40%
FY20186$15k100%
FY20175$5kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Animals$21kHealth$19kEducation$12kHuman Services$7kArts & Culture$7kPhilanthropy$6kCommunity Improvement$100

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Humane Society of Southwestern Michigan$21,13432%
St Joseph Public Schools Foundation$11,60041%
Pennies From Heaven$6,8692n/a
Hospice at Home Inc$5,25020%
Curious Kids Museum$5,00010%
The Heritage Museum and Cultural Center$1,80010%
Readiness Center Inc$1,20030%
The Avenue Family Network Inc$10010%
St Joseph-Lincoln Senior Service Center Inc$5010%
Salvation Army$501n/a

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($18k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Thomas and Maria Yeager Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHumane Society of Southwestern Michigan: $21,134 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSt Joseph Public Schools Foundation: $11,600 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHospice at Home Inc: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCurious Kids Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Heritage Museum and Cultural Center: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetReadiness Center Inc: $1,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Avenue Family Network Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Joseph-Lincoln Senior Service Center Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Berrien Community Foundation IncMI22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Thomas and Maria Yeager Family Foundation

How much does The Thomas and Maria Yeager Family Foundation give?
The Thomas and Maria Yeager Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $7,338 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Thomas and Maria Yeager Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Animals (30%), Health (27%), Education (17%).
Who are The Thomas and Maria Yeager Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Humane Society of Southwestern Michigan ($21k), St Joseph Public Schools Foundation ($12k), Pennies From Heaven ($7k).
Does The Thomas and Maria Yeager Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Thomas and Maria Yeager Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Thomas and Maria Yeager Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berrien Community Foundation Inc, Hanson Family Foundation, The Marzke Family Foundation.
Where is The Thomas and Maria Yeager Family Foundation based?
The Thomas and Maria Yeager Family Foundation is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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