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Weigel 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 |
|---|---|
| PROJECT FEED THE KIDS | $5,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE | $4,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PELICAN | $2,000 |
| SINGLE MOMM | $2,000 |
| PEACE RANCH | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST 399 | $2,000 |
| WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER | $2,000 |
| OLD MISSION WOMENS CLUB | $2,000 |
| MICHAELS PLACE | $2,000 |
| BOOTS FOR KIDS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| WEXFORD COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER | $500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $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, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% 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.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE PELICANS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue ×45 · 29% of their budget
- MPMICHAEL'S PLACE9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +44%
- SHSAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMY OF CADILLACone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $2k
- SSSEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +235%
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.
Rescue, care for, and release abandoned and injured birds.
Provide gifts and/or assistance to families in need in new baltimore, mi and surrounding areas at christmas time and to try to assure "no child without a christmas". assist families and children in need at other times during the year.…
Our mission is to locate suitable adoptive homes for homeless and displaced Golden Retrievers. While these Goldens are in foster care we provide shelter food companionship and medical attention.
The marshmallow animal shelter provides programs and services that aid animals and benefit the animal/human partnership.
Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.
The mission of sweet dreams senior pet sanctuary is to support elderly individuals who can no longer care for their senior pets by providing a safe and loving home for their cherished companions. the sanctuary offers two primary programs…
Friends of michigan animals rescue's mission is to protect animals and residents by promoting a safe and healthy environment for all.
The rescue, rehabilitation and provision of sanctuary for slaughterbound horses or those suffering from abuse and neglect and to advocate for equine welfare.
Midland's Open Door (MOD) operates two crisis shelters, one for women and children and one for men. MOD's programs are designed to meet the immediate needs of homeless individuals by providing a safe and loving environment where each…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Single Momm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 38 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 FRIENDS OF THE PELICANS INC ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds SINGLE MOMM ↗
- Who funds BOOTS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FEED THE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSPIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eagle Village Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROL'S FERALS ↗
- Who funds BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS #323 ↗
- Who funds SEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CHRISTMAS ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds UP NORTH ARTS 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: Oleson Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Weigel 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Seaside Seabird Sanctuary — 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.