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Vogt Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY (HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN) | $2,000 |
| GOD'S KITCHEN (MEALS ON WHEELS) | $2,000 |
| HELEN DEVOS CHILDRENS HOSP | $1,000 |
| KIDS FOOD BASKET | $1,000 |
| FEEDING AM WEST MI FOOD | $1,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $1,000 |
| MARY FREE BED FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MACKENZIE'S ANIMAL SHELTER | $1,000 |
| JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| LAND CONSERVANCY OF WEST MI | $1,000 |
| LAKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| LOVE INC | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of your 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.
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.
44 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- CRCONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +35%
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC9× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +16%
- LCLAKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- EREQUINE RESCUEone grant, 2022 · $2k
- TBTHE BARN FOR EQUINE LEARNINGone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +3%
- WRWILDLIFE REHAB CENTER LTDone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +214%
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.
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…
Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…
It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…
Land conservation and restoration for public benefit
The mission of heartlands conservancy is to empower and colaborate with the people of southern illinois to advance and protect the health of our distinctive communities and nationally significant natural and cultural resources.
To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special
The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.
To inspire coexistence between humans and wildlife.
The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…
To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.
Wmeac's mission is to "inform and engage an inclusive community which acts together to protect natural resources and create a climate resilient west michigan."
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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 63 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 53 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 HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds LAKE FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUINE RESCUE OF AIKEN ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN TRAILS CAMP ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CAMP BLODGETT ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP 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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Brown Tassell Foundation · James and Shirley Balk Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Baird Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Vogt 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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