· Private foundation
Thieme 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOUVEL CATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $5,000 |
| SAINT GERARD SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| RAGNAROK TRAINING SYSTEMS | $1,500 |
| MUSTARD SEED SHELTER | $1,000 |
| NEW BEGINNING ENRICHMENT CENTER | $1,000 |
| MACKINAW CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $1,000 |
| UNDERGROUND RAILROAD | $1,000 |
| TEMPLEARTS | $1,000 |
| MAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS | $1,000 |
| URBAN RACQUET SPORTS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -31% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +39%
- SGSAINT GERARD SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue ×34
- URUNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC4× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- ATANTIQUE TOY AND FIREHOUSE MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -31%
- HPHEMLOCK PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2024 · $2k
- SHSHIAWASSEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2024 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To empower and support children and families in reaching their full potential and becoming self-sufficient, saving lives and creating futures through educational enrichment and shelter services.
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.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Promotion of conventions & tourism in saginaw county
The saginaw african cultural festival's mission is to provide cultural education to the greater saginaw, michigan community.
Apprenticeship Program
Child and Family Service of Saginaw County is a social work agency dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in our community by fostering personal growth, emotional development, recovery from trauma, self- reliance, and healthy…
Guardian/conservator/representative payee for legally incapacitated and developmentally disabled individuals and provide assistance with financial management.
Support library activities through materials and services
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
- Who funds SAINT GERARD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Urban Racquet Sports Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds ANTIQUE TOY AND FIREHOUSE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds READ Association of Saginaw County ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF COLORS ↗
- Who funds TEMPLEARTS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Saginaw Community Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Morley Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Boutell Memorial Fund · Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable Foundation · Drsamuel Shaheen Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thieme Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thieme Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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