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Variety Club Charity for Children Dba Variety the Children's Charity

Providing vital support and essential services to children with special needs in our community.

$456k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$98k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Health$1.4MHuman Services$410kYouth Development$308kFood & Nutrition$225kEducation$82kReligion$52kPublic Benefit$20kCrime & Legal$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $261k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $173k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ALLIANCE OF COALITIONS FOR HEAL$98,108
BEAUMONT FOUNDATION$75,000
FAR THERAPEUTIC ARTS AND RECREATION$42,100
YOUTH TANK DETROIT$40,000
VISION HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$25,000
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$25,000
DELIVERING GOOD INC$25,000
NEW HOPE CENTER FOR GRIEF SUPPORT$25,000
THE AGAPE PROJECT$24,000
THAAR CARE FOUNDATION$15,000
BUILDING BEDS 4 KIDS$15,000
PENRICKTON CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDRE$13,400
BOH PEP 4H CLUB$11,750
U OF M-CS MOTT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$8,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$8,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $433k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DELIVERING GOOD INC: $25k → 17%DELIVERING GOOD: $25k → 17%SUZIE Q'S KIDS: $7k → 10%DELIVERING GOOD: $25k → 17%MAGGIE'S WIGS 4 KIDS MICHIGAN: $19k → 10%TEAM GUTS: $8k → 8%KIDS ON THE GO: $10k → 21%STAND WITH TRANS FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%THE ALLIANCE OF COALITIONS FOR HEAL: $98k → 8%THE ALLIANCE OF COALITIONS FOR HEAL: $98k → 8%THE ALLIANCE OF COALITIONS FOR HEAL: $98k → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 19 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
11

Total granted

$2.4M
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+40%

Still filing today

74%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • WB
    WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $615k · revenue +0%
  • AO
    ALLIANCE OF COALITIONS FOR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $294k · revenue +17%
  • FC
    FAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +86%

Funded once

  • CC
    CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +21%
  • SW
    Stand With Transgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +173%
  • MW
    MAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGAN INC
    one grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue -9%
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
Oncology and Kids Inc

To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.

Human Services
2
Childkind Inc

Childkind's mission is to empower families caring for children involved with the child welfare system, specializing in those with special health care and developmental needs. whether it be a child with a complex medical or developmental…

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3
Ronald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan

To provide a warm & caring Home-Away-From-Home for ill children and their families.

Health
4
Association for Children's Mental Health

To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.

Health
5
Michigan's Children

To ensure that policymakers prioritize the needs of the most challenged children from cradle to career.

Human Services
6
Children's Healing Center

The organization operates in two locationsgrand rapids and ypsilantito provide a safe, clean, and engaging environment where children with weakened immune systems can interact with others.

Health
7
Healing the Children Michigan-Ohio

Healing the children michigan/ohio is a not for profit humanitarian organization dedicated to securing gratis medical and surgical care for children in need.

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8
The Children's Center Utah

The mission of the children's center utah is to provide comprehensive mental health care to enhance the emotional well-being of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and their families. we are the only organization in utah and the largest in…

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9
Brilliant Detroit

Helping families and neighborhoods succeed by providing a place and support to assure kids ages 0-5 are school ready and families are healthy and stable.

Youth Development
10
Childrens Center of Wayne County Inc

The children's center's mission is to help children and families shape their own futures.

Human Services
11
Caring Athletes Team for Children's and Henry Ford Hospitals

The organization is dedicated to improving the quality of life of pediatric patients at children's hospital of michigan and henry ford hospital. through a board-designated endowment fund, the organization provides economically…

Health
12
Cerebral Palsy Kids Center Inc

Kids Center for Pediatric Therapies empowers children with physical, behavior and intellectual challenges to reach their full potential through comprehensive medical therapies, regardless of a family's capacity to afford the full cost of…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Bryson and Baker Batt Foundation Inc. 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

25 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. 25 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL: $615,000 · HealthWILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITALNEW HOPE CENTER FOR GRIEF SUPPORT INC: $70,000 · HealthNEW HOPE CENTER FOR GRIEF SUPPORT…+2 more: $42,708 · Health+2 moreFAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS: $143,665 · OtherFAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC …REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $125,348 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIC…FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $125,249 · OtherFRIENDSHIP CIRCLEVARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN DBA VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $125,000 · OtherVARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDRE…MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $73,400 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYAGAPE PROJECT: $52,000 · OtherAGAPE PROJECT+7 more: $53,475 · Other+7 moreALLIANCE OF COALITIONS FOR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: $294,324 · Human ServicesALLIANCE OF COALITI…DELIVERING GOOD INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesDELIVERING GOOD INCStand With Trans: $20,000 · Human ServicesMAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGAN INC: $18,644 · Human Services+3 more: $24,825 · Human Services+3 moreGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $225,000 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS C…VISION HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterBEDS 4 KIDS: $70,000 · Housing & ShelterLIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION: $82,000 · PhilanthropyTHAAR CARE FOUNDATION INC: $37,949 · PhilanthropyYOUTHTANK INC: $106,500 · Education
Health$727,708Other$698,137Human Services$432,793Food & Nutrition$225,000Housing & Shelter$155,000Philanthropy$119,949Education$106,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL: $615,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE OF COALITIONS FOR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: $294,324 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $225,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS: $143,665 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetVARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN DBA VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $125,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetYOUTHTANK INC: $106,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetVISION HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $85,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetLIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION: $82,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetDELIVERING GOOD INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE CENTER FOR GRIEF SUPPORT INC: $70,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetBEDS 4 KIDS: $70,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetTHAAR CARE FOUNDATION INC: $37,949 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $21,683 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPenrickton Center for Blind Children: $21,025 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStand With Trans: $20,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetBRYSON AND BAKER BATT FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGAN INC: $18,644 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetKIDS ON THE GO: $10,325 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTEAM GUTS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetSUSIE QS KIDS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $1,135 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHERIFF PAL PROGRAM: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Canton Community Foun…Phillip and Elizabeth…Michigan Health Endow…DTE Energy FoundationChildren's Hospital o…Flagstar Foundation I…United Way for Southe…The Kresge FoundationMolinello Family Foun…Wendell & Doris Roger…The Village Club Foun…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI30.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · DTE Energy Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · Molinello Family Foundation · Wendell & Doris Rogers Charitable 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 Variety Club Charity for Children Dba Variety the Children's Charity funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Variety Club Charity for Children Dba Variety the Children's Charity. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 30 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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