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Tuktawa Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$609k
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.1MYouth Development$963kHealth$480kEnvironment$299kRecreation & Sports$287kFood & Nutrition$234kArts & Culture$226kAnimals$148kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $437k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS$15,000
AUSTIN JUNIOR FORUM$15,000
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY$15,000
FORGOTTEN HARVEST$15,000
THE HENRY FORD$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SAM & DEVORAH FOUNDATION FOR TRANS YOUTH: $10k → 4%WIGS 4 KIDS: $3k → 10%WIGS 4 KIDS: $3k → 10%WIGS 4 KIDS: $3k → 10%WIGS 4 KIDS: $3k → 10%WIGS 4 KIDS: $3k → 10%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $23k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $20k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $18k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $18k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $16k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $13k → 8%BALDWIN CENTER: $15k → 8%BALDWIN CENTER: $5k → 8%BALDWIN CENTER: $5k → 8%BALDWIN CENTER: $5k → 8%BALDWIN CENTER: $5k → 8%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER: $13k → 8%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER: $12k → 8%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER: $12k → 8%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER: $12k → 8%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER: $12k → 8%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER: $10k → 8%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER: $8k → 8%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER: $8k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
OR
IN
NJ
CA
CO
SC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 75 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
20

Total granted

$4.9M
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-5%

Still filing today

56%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
    4× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +48%
  • AY
    AUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP
    7× · 2018–2024 · $125k · revenue +94%
  • FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $42k
  • HJ
    H J ANDREWS EXPERIMENTAL FOREST FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • DETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +161%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society

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.

Animals
2
Detroit Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

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4
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
5
Michigan Legacy Art Park

Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.

Arts & Culture
6
Mymichigan Health Foundation

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…

Health
7
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
8
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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9
Michigan State Afl-Cio Workforce Development Institute

To apply the principles of workforce development to grow michigan's economy while improving the lives of michigan workers.

Employment
10
Michigan Peer Review Organization

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…

Health
11
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
12
Michigan Animal Rescue League

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan; 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.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 100 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/55
Grantees still filing
35/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OAKLAND COUNTY YOUTH ASSISTANCE: $564,092 · OtherOAKLAND COUNTY YOUTH ASSISTANCEOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FUND: $546,000 · OtherOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FUNDSALVATION ARMY: $200,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYGIRL SCOUTS OF SE MICH -DETROIT SERVICE CTR: $160,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ANNA S F LOK RESEARCH FUND: $132,500 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $120,000 · Other+69 more: $1,721,165 · Other+69 moreHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $255,000 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $75,000 · HealthMARINERS INN: $25,000 · HealthMICHAEL'S PLACE: $19,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $106,700 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC: $87,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $65,000 · Human ServicesTHE BALDWIN CENTER INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesMAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGAN INC: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesSleeping Bear Forever DBA Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear: $100,915 · EnvironmentLEELANAU CONSERVANCY: $95,000 · EnvironmentINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $88,000 · Environment+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $120,000 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $114,000 · Food & NutritionThe Great Lakes Childrens Museum: $67,500 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $60,000 · Arts & CultureMaritime Heritage Alliance: $57,500 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $6,000 · Arts & CultureAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP: $125,000 · Recreation & SportsCROSSROADS FOR YOUTH: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $24,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,443,757Health$379,000Human Services$318,700Environment$288,915Food & Nutrition$234,000Arts & Culture$221,000Recreation & Sports$189,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $255,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP: $125,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $120,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $114,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $110,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $106,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSleeping Bear Forever DBA Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear: $100,915 over 7y, 19% of budgetLEELANAU CONSERVANCY: $95,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetINLAND SEAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $88,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetGLEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $87,750 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetOPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC: $87,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TROY: $85,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $75,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetThe Great Lakes Childrens Museum: $67,500 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $65,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetCROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN: $60,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR OF MET: $60,000 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaritime Heritage Alliance: $57,500 over 7y, 11% of budgetLIBRARIES OF LOVE: $55,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR YOUTH: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAustin Junior Forum Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetFAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS: $40,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE: $35,465 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BALDWIN CENTER INC: $35,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARINERS INN: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHappy Birthdays: $22,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetBetter ATX: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMICHAEL'S PLACE: $19,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetKARMASUE: $18,500 over 3y, 26% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGAN INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetST ANNES MEAD: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKETS OF RAIN: $12,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetDETROIT DOG RESCUE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSam & Devorah Foundation For Trans Youth: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGENERATION SERVE: $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWINGS OF WONDER INC: $7,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HUNLEY INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 CROSSROADS FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds Austin Junior Forum Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BALDWIN CENTER INC ↗

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.

United Way for Southe…Community Foundation …DTE Energy FoundationCanton Community Foun…Rotary Charities of T…Grand Traverse Region…The Kresge FoundationSerra Family Foundati…Phillip and Elizabeth…The Barton Malow Foun…Consumers Energy Foun…The Village Club Foun…
United Way for Southeastern MichiganMI30.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tuktawa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tuktawa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Tuktawa Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Tuktawa Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 100 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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