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Tom and Ellen Noneman Foundation Co Plante Moran Trust
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of TOM AND ELLEN NONEMAN FOUNDATION CO PLANTE MORAN TRUST’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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Trinity Lutheran Church | $12,000 |
| Defiance College | $10,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| Salisbury School | $5,000 |
| Petoskey Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation | $5,000 |
| United Way of Williams County | $2,500 |
| mclaren northern michigan foundation | $2,000 |
| ANN'S NESST | $1,500 |
| MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| FILLING MEMORIAL HOME OF MERCY | $1,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| university of texas health science center | $1,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| Little Traverse Bay Humane Society | $1,000 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | $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 (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +32% since the first grant, against -100% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- DCDEFIANCE COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +7%
- SSSALISBURY SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +95%
- LTLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- POPROTECTION OF RIGHTS ALLIANCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -100%
- ICIMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $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.
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…
To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
Receive and Administer funds for the public welfare of the people of Huron County, Michigan
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
Up land conservancy protects land in michigan's upper peninsula by owning it as nature preserves and working forest reserves, and through conservation easements(perpetual, voluntary agreements that guard the conservation values of the…
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,…
To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.
I) lessening the burdens of government and improving the environment by reducing fuel emissions by providing a ferry service between the cities of petoskey and harbor springs; (ii) providing access to the great lakes that otherwise may not…
Preserving the history of our area brings an understanding to the past and present, and provides a guide for the future. we not only maintain exhibits, artifacts and a research library, we provide a forum for engaging the community and…
The great lakes historical society is dedicated to the preservation of great lakes history.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Anns Nest. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
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 30 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 PETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEFIANCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMMET SPORTSMENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WILLIAMS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds BRYAN AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FILLING MEMORIAL HOME OF MERCY ↗
- Who funds LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROTECTION OF RIGHTS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANNS NEST ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LITTLE TRAVERSE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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 Offield Family Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Mps Foundation · Triford Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Columbus Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kent Foundation · Baiardi Family Foundation Inc · Ron and Lisa Fenech 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 Tom and Ellen Noneman Foundation Co Plante Moran Trust 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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