· Private foundation
Von Voigtlander Family 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 |
|---|---|
| ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR MICHIGAN CHAPTER | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER | $3,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO | $3,000 |
| NOCO HUMANE | $3,000 |
| EDUCATE YOUTH YPSI | $2,500 |
| KALAMAZOO NATURE CENTER | $2,500 |
| WOLDUMAR NATURE ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $2,500 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE CONSERVATION DISTRIC | $2,500 |
| FISHER HOUSE OF MICHIGAN | $2,500 |
| PAWS WITH A CAUSE | $2,500 |
| BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS | $2,500 |
| ELEVATE EQUINE ASSISTED THERAPY | $2,500 |
| THE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +86% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 4 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- AFANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE5× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +22%
- PWPaws With A Cause9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +86%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO7× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +55%
Funded once
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +70%- AHANIMAL HOUSE RESCUE & GROOMINGone grant, 2019 · $3k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SE MICHone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
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.
Animal shelter - provide a safe haven for animals without homes.
Provide care for homeless/abused animals
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.
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…
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
Dog and cat rescue and rehousing; humane care and treatment of these animals.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is War Horses for Veterans Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 76 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 ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLORADO ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CASSIE HINES SHOES CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR REACH ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds Noco Humane ↗
- Who funds DETROIT DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds WOLDUMAR NATURE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN COLORADO FRIENDS OF FERALS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
- Who funds BARN SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds REALITIES FOR CHILDREN CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds FORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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 · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · BISSELL Pet Foundation · William E Dean III Charitable Foundation · Pedigree 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 Von Voigtlander Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.