· Private foundation
Tuktawa 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 $10k19 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $437k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEMS | $100,000 |
| AUSTIN SUNSHINE CAMPS | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF SE MICH -DETROIT SERVICE CTR | $20,000 |
| GLEN LAKE ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK | $18,000 |
| LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $16,000 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $15,000 |
| THE HENRY FORD | $15,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| AUSTIN JUNIOR FORUM | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| BOY AND GIRLS CLUB OF TROY | $15,000 |
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, $254k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 6% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +28% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- HFHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM4× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +48%
- AYAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP7× · 2018–2024 · $125k · revenue +94%
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $42k
- HJH J ANDREWS EXPERIMENTAL FOREST FUNDone grant, 2019 · $20k
- HCHURON CLINTON METRO PARKone grant, 2022 · $10k
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 maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
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.
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.…
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
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…
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
To apply the principles of workforce development to grow michigan's economy while improving the lives of michigan workers.
Helping healthcare get better. MPRO has more than 40 years of experience improving healthcare across the continuum of care using evidence-based and data-driven logic. MPRO also has extensive expertise in completing thoughtful and impartial…
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…
The mission of the michigan animal rescue league is to provide the highest quality of life to dogs and cats through rescue, medical care, socialization and behavioral support, short- and long-term sanctuary, adoption, and community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Solar Austin. 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 40 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 100 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 HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Sleeping Bear Forever DBA Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds INLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GLEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TROY ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds The Great Lakes Childrens Museum ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR OF MET ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Maritime Heritage Alliance ↗
- Who funds LIBRARIES OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds Austin Junior Forum Inc ↗
- Who funds FAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds THE BALDWIN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN 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: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Serra Family Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · The Barton Malow Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Village Club 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 Tuktawa 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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