· Private foundation
The Worsham Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD GATHERERS | $3,000 |
| SAFEHOUSE CENTER | $3,000 |
| HORSES HAVEN | $2,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY | $1,500 |
| WASHTENAW ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY | $1,000 |
| SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS DETROIT | $1,000 |
| ANN ARBOR HANDS-ON-MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| CHELSEA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $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 (FY17–18, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Worsham Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 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
- FGFOOD GATHERERS6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +28%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY7× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +53%
- HHHORSES' HAVEN9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- PNPeace Neighborhood Centergraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +230%
- MSMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +110%
- DHDEXTER HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $1k
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 inspire a love for learning in science, technology, engineering, math, and art, and awaken imagination through hands-on play.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Our mission is to promote the humane treatment and responsible care of animals in west michigan through education, example, placement and protection.
The Historical Society of Michigan will foster in citizens a deeper understanding of and appreciation for all Michigan history through programs and publications; preserve and promote Michigan history through conferences, publications,…
Inspire and grow women in technology.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
Be and create stewards for the water environment of michigan. provide high quality education for michigan's water professionals. educate and inform policy makers and the general public. promote scientifically sound environmental practices…
Detroit waldorf school is a nonprofit educational community whose mission is to inspire and empower a diverse population of students to reach their fullest potential as creative, collaborative, and responsible global citizens.
The Association is an independent worldwide organization that nurtures lifelong relationships with and among current and future Michigan alumni. As a committed partner of the University the Association offers programs of relevance and…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and the most unlike its peers is Girl Develop It. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 24 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 FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds HORSES' HAVEN ↗
- Who funds ANN ARBOR HANDS-ON MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds 826 MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS DETROIT ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Dexter Area Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds Peace Neighborhood Center ↗
- Who funds WASHTENAW ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds LESLIE SCIENCE AND NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS GROUP ↗
- Who funds GIRL DEVELOP IT ↗
- Who funds HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEEP THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS 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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Vaughan Foundation · THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (Of R & P Heydon) · Dte Energy Foundation · Duffy Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor Foundation Inc · United Way of Washtenaw County · The Skillman Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Worsham 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.
- Girl Develop It — 7% of income from government
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.