· Private foundation
Toni a Wisne Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $491k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $212,000 |
| BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| VISTA MARIA | $125,000 |
| WHALEY'S CHILDREN'S CENTER | $100,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY SHARING OUTREACH CENTER | $75,000 |
| MICHIGAN HUMANE | $65,000 |
| GIVE MERIT INC | $50,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| EMPOWERMENT PLAN | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| THE RAINBOW CONNECTION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| MICHIGAN HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 57% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $301k 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
VISTA MARIA6× · 2019–2024 · $625k · revenue +60%- WCWhaley Children's Center Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $625k · revenue +41%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- DCDIVINE CHILD PARISH DEARBORNone grant, 2017 · $350k
- LDLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLINDone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +4%
- DBDETROIT BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
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.…
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.…
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
To apply the principles of workforce development to grow michigan's economy while improving the lives of michigan workers.
Cooperatively empowering credit unions to increase financial well-being by supporting community enrichment, financial education, and credit union development initiatives
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
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.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Creating healthy communities - together
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Council of Michigan Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 61 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 GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHARING ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds Whaley Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FALLEN AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS FUND ↗
- Who funds IMERMAN ANGELS ↗
- Who funds Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds THE RAINBOW CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Camp Kesem National ↗
- Who funds GIVE MERIT INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORG ↗
- Who funds GENERAL SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
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 · Dte Energy Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Barton Malow Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · The Carls Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Enterprise Holdings 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 Toni a Wisne 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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