· Private foundation
Vogt Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY (HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN) | $2,000 |
| GOD'S KITCHEN (MEALS ON WHEELS) | $2,000 |
| SANTA CLAUS GIRLS | $1,000 |
| LAKE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CAMP BLODGETT | $1,000 |
| CAMPUS OUTREACH | $1,000 |
| LAND CONSERVANCY OF WEST MI | $1,000 |
| FEEDING AM WEST MI FOOD | $1,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $1,000 |
| MARY FREE BED FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HELEN DEVOS CHILDRENS HOSP | $1,000 |
| JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| LAKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- TTTALL TURF MINISTRIESone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue -38%
- WRWorld Renewgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +47%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vogt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vogt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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