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Weatherwax Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.0M
Granted FY2017
49
Grants FY2017
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $290k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.6M
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$290k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HENRY FORD ALLEGIANCE HEALTH$1,000,000
JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME$553,519
CASCADES HUMANE SOCIETY$385,495
JACKSON CIRY PARKS & RECREATION$370,000
MARRIAGE MATTERS JACKSON$300,000
JACKSON COLLEGE FOUNDATION$200,000
CROSWELL OPERA HOUSE$175,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$153,000
COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON$131,500
HILLSDALE COUNTY DRUG COURT$106,673
FAMILY SERVICE & CHILDREN'S AID$100,000
JACKSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
ST LOUIS CENTER$100,000
MICHIGAN THEATRE$90,000
LEGAL SERVICES OF S CENTRAL MI$88,000
02The need
02

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $289k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HILLSDALE COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES: $86k → 14%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $50k → 13%KIWANIS FOUNDATION OF JACKSON: $7k → 13%COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON: $132k → 13%NONPROFIT NETWORK: $15k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Jackson Community Ambulance

The mission of jackson community ambulance is to provide high-quality out-of-hospital care and transportation services to the communities we serve.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Jackson Family Childcare

To provide high quality, comprehensive child development and after school care to ensure that children can reach their highest potential

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3
Jackson Council on the Aging Inc

The primary function of the Jackson Council on the Aging, Inc. is to improve the quality of life for the parish's elderly and to provide services to the elderly as well as coordinate and monitor the services of other local agencies serving…

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4
Jackson County Senior Citizens Organization Inc

Assisting senior citizens of jackson county

Human Services
5
Jackson County Community Services Consortium

Enhance delivery of quality, integrated, accessible services

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6
Jackson County Day Activity Center

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide vocational opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities.

Health
7
Jackson County Council On Aging

Provide services to local seniors to improve their quality of life and assist them in remaining in their homes

Human Services
8
Jackson County Casa

Casa is a unique non-profit helping abused and neglected children in the jackson county family court system. our team of trained volunteers,staff case supervisors, and staff attorneys allow each child to be represented in a court of law…

Civil Rights
9
Michigan Christian Home

The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…

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10
Jackson Center for Independent Living

Independent living development for the disabled

Crime & Legal
11
Judson Care Center Inc

Judson care center's mission, as a charitable, christian organization, is to use its resources to meet the housing, health care, social, physical and spiritual needs of its constituents without regards to race, color, creed, national…

Health
12
The Jackson County United Way Inc

Jackson county united way assesses needs, secures resources and strategically invests those resources to create lasting, measurable change in the areas of education, health and financial stability for all people in jackson county.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compassionate Ministries of Jackson County and the most unlike its peers is St Louis Center. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLenawee County Community Or…Community Arts OrganizationsStem Career DevelopmentAnimal Rescue and AdoptionSenior Services & Community…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 45 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr11%4%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr14%17%20–35yr17%35%35–55yr21%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr11%5%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr14%7%20–35yr17%21%35–55yr21%59%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
10%
224/2,210

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.

03the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HENRY FORD ALLEGIANCE HEALTH — $1,000,000 · OtherHENRY FORD ALLEGIANCE HEALTHTHE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME — $553,519 · OtherTHE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOMEJACKSON CIRY PARKS & RECREATION — $370,000 · OtherJACKSON CIRY PARKS & RECREATIONMARRIAGE MATTERS JACKSON — $300,000 · OtherMARRIAGE MATTERS JACKSONCATHOLIC CHARITIES — $153,000 · Other+30 more — $1,271,998 · Other+30 moreCASCADES HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $385,495 · AnimalsJACKSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $200,000 · EducationTHE SHOP RAT FOUNDATION INC — $54,790 · EducationALBION COLLEGE — $50,000 · EducationCOMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON COUNTY — $131,500 · Human ServicesHILLSDALE COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES CENTER INC — $85,938 · Human ServicesJOHN GEORGE HOME INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesNONPROFIT NETWORK — $15,000 · Human Services+1 more — $6,500 · Human ServicesCROSWELL OPERA HOUSE & FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION — $175,000 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureJackson Community Foundation — $100,000 · PhilanthropyHELPS INTERNATIONAL — $60,000 · International
Other$3,648,517Animals$385,495Education$304,790Human Services$288,938Arts & Culture$190,000Philanthropy$100,000International$60,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME — $553,519 over 1y, 31% of budgetCASCADES HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $385,495 over 1y, 14% of budgetMARRIAGE MATTERS JACKSON — $300,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetJACKSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCROSWELL OPERA HOUSE & FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION — $175,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON COUNTY — $131,500 over 1y, 31% of budgetJackson Community Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFamily Service and Childrens Aid — $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES CENTER INC — $85,938 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHELPS INTERNATIONAL — $60,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SHOP RAT FOUNDATION INC — $54,790 over 1y, 28% of budgetALBION COLLEGE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN GEORGE HOME INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetHOSPICE OF LENAWEE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LENAWEE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSMILES ON WHEELS — $35,006 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE READING WRITING CONNECTION — $25,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetNONPROFIT NETWORK — $15,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE LAKE FINE ARTS CAMP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $883 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Consumers Energy Foun…The Alvin L Glick Fou…Phil & Pat Willis Fou…Lavery FoundationThe Hurst FoundationSpeckhard-Knight Char…Samuel Higby Camp Fou…Macchia Family Founda…Melling Family Founda…John George Jr Paragr…Jackson Community Fou…Addison P Cook III Fo…
Consumers Energy FoundationMI29.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Consumers Energy Foundation · The Alvin L Glick Foundation · Phil & Pat Willis Foundation · Lavery Foundation · The Hurst Foundation · Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation · Samuel Higby Camp Foundation · Macchia Family Foundation · Melling Family Foundation · John George Jr Paragraph X Trust · Jackson Community Foundation · Addison P Cook III 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 Weatherwax 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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