· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $261k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $173k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ALLIANCE OF COALITIONS FOR HEAL | $98,108 |
| BEAUMONT FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| FAR THERAPEUTIC ARTS AND RECREATION | $42,100 |
| YOUTH TANK DETROIT | $40,000 |
| NEW HOPE CENTER FOR GRIEF SUPPORT | $25,000 |
| VISION HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $25,000 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| DELIVERING GOOD INC | $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 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $8,000 |
| U OF M-CS MOTT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $8,000 |
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 (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. 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.
19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WBWILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL9× · 2017–2025 · $615k · revenue +0%
- AOALLIANCE OF COALITIONS FOR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES3× · 2023–2025 · $294k · revenue +17%
- FCFAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- CCCASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +21%
- SWStand With Transgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +75%
- MWMAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGAN INCone grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue -9%
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 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.
To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.
Provide mental health services to promote resiliency, wellness and positive developmental outcomes through prevention, treatment, education and family support for children under the age of 9 who have experienced abuse, neglect and other…
To ensure that children with complex health care needs have access to timely and high quality medical care, and that pediatric specialists are able to thrive in californias health care
Healing the children michigan/ohio is a not for profit humanitarian organization dedicated to securing gratis medical and surgical care for children in need.
Provide monetary or financial aid exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes and to solicit, receive, maintain and disburse funds for these purposes and for the betterment of children.
We provide children affected by violence and their families with services of support, forensic interviews, resources, and hope.
Provide pediatric care to underserved communities
The children's center for hope & healing is dedicated to breaking the cycle of child sexual abuse and preventing the victimization of children.
To reclaim children's right to grow up feeling safe, loved, and free from harm and to end the cycle of sexual exploitation through healing. prevention and education in the chicagoland area.
Miracles for kids helps families with critically-ill children battle bankruptcy, homelessness, hunger and depression so they concentrate on what is most important - fighting for their child's life.
We are a non-profit founded by teenagers, for teenagers, to provide comfort and encouragement to chronically ill teens by donating custom backpacks filled with select items to enhance their hospital stays.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sheriff Pal Program. 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 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 9% 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.
25 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. 25 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 WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF COALITIONS FOR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds VARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN DBA VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY ↗
- Who funds YOUTHTANK INC ↗
- Who funds VISION HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DELIVERING GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE CENTER FOR GRIEF SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds BEDS 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds THAAR CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Penrickton Center for Blind Children ↗
- Who funds CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Stand With Trans ↗
- Who funds BRYSON AND BAKER BATT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON THE GO ↗
- Who funds TEAM GUTS INC ↗
- Who funds SUSIE QS KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF PAL PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ILITCH CHARITIES 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: 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
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 Variety Club Charity for Children Dba Variety the Children's Charity 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.