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Weigel Family Foundation at a glance

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Weigel Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$28k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$58kAnimals$42kEducation$19kReligion$16kMembership Benefit$16kHousing & Shelter$12kHealth$11kPublic Benefit$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$438k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT FEED THE KIDS$5,000
SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE$4,000
AMERICAN LEGION POST 399$2,000
WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER$2,000
MICHAELS PLACE$2,000
SINGLE MOMM$2,000
OLD MISSION WOMENS CLUB$2,000
PEACE RANCH$2,000
FRIENDS OF THE PELICAN$2,000
HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN$1,000
BOOTS FOR KIDS$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$500
WEXFORD COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOG: $2k → 16%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $3k → 13%SINGLE MOMM: $3k → 10%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $1k → 13%SINGLE MOMM: $2k → 10%PROJECT CHRISTMAS: $1k → 13%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $1k → 13%SINGLE MOMM: $2k → 10%SINGLE MOMM: $2k → 10%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $1k → 13%PEACE RANCH: $2k → 10%PROJECT CHRISTMAS: $1k → 13%SINGLE MOMM: $1k → 10%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $1k → 13%SINGLE MOMM: $1k → 10%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $1k → 13%BOOTS FOR KIDS: $1k → 10%BOOTS FOR KIDS: $1k → 10%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $1k → 13%BOOTS FOR KIDS: $1k → 10%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $1k → 13%BOOTS FOR KIDS: $1k → 10%BOOTS FOR KIDS: $1k → 10%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $1k → 13%BOOTS FOR KIDS: $1k → 10%BOOTS FOR KIDS: $1k → 10%BOOTS FOR KIDS: $1k → 10%BOOTS FOR KIDS: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$218k · 26 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
9

Total granted

$218k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+235%

Still filing today

35%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsReligionHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE PELICANS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue ×45 · 29% of their budget
  • MP
    MICHAEL'S PLACE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +44%
  • SH
    SAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY OF CADILLAC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • GA
    GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +83%
  • OT
    ONEKAMA TOWNSHIP
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Bird Center of Michigan Inc

Rescue, care for, and release abandoned and injured birds.

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2
New Baltimore Goodfellows

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.…

Youth Development
3
Golden Retriever Rescue of Michigan

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.

Animals
4
Marshmallow Animal Shelter

The marshmallow animal shelter provides programs and services that aid animals and benefit the animal/human partnership.

Animals
5
Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
Carolines Kids Pet Rescue
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7
The Michigan Glass Project
Public Benefit
8
Sweet Dreams Senior Pet Sanctuary

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…

Animals
9
Friends of Michigan Animals Rescue

Friends of michigan animals rescue's mission is to protect animals and residents by promoting a safe and healthy environment for all.

Animals
10
Parrots in Paradise
Animals
11
Hoof and Heart of Southern Michigan

The rescue, rehabilitation and provision of sanctuary for slaughterbound horses or those suffering from abuse and neglect and to advocate for equine welfare.

Animals
12
Midland's Open Door

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $23,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $16,000 · OtherWOMENS RESOURCE CENTERAMERICAN LEGION POST 399: $13,000 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION POST 399FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SHEPARDS TABLE: $8,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH SHEPARDS TABLEIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION: $7,000 · OtherPORTAGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $6,500 · OtherWEXFORD COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $6,500 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,500 · Other+14 more: $33,500 · Other+14 moreHospice of Michigan Inc: $11,000 · Human ServicesHospice of Michig…SINGLE MOMM: $10,500 · Human ServicesSINGLE MOMMBOOTS FOR KIDS: $9,000 · Human ServicesBOOTS FOR KIDSGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN ANGELS M…PARAKLESIS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesPARAKLESIS INCPROJECT CHRISTMAS: $2,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT CHRISTMASFRIENDS OF THE PELICANS INC: $26,500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF TH…SEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY: $2,000 · AnimalsSEASIDE SEABI…MICHAEL'S PLACE: $14,000 · HealthSAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC: $12,000 · Housing & ShelterGREENSPIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · ReligionPROJECT FEED THE KIDS INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionUP NORTH ARTS INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$138,000Human Services$36,500Animals$28,500Health$14,000Housing & Shelter$12,000Religion$5,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Arts & Culture$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE PELICANS INC: $26,500 over 8y, 29% of budgetMICHAEL'S PLACE: $14,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSAFE HARBOR OF GRAND TRAVERSE INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHospice of Michigan Inc: $11,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSINGLE MOMM: $10,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBOOTS FOR KIDS: $9,000 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetGREENSPIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetEagle Village Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAROL'S FERALS: $3,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS #323: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARAKLESIS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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 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 GREENSPIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT FEED THE KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Eagle Village Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAROL'S FERALS ↗
  • Who funds BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS #323 ↗
  • Who funds GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds PARAKLESIS INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT CHRISTMAS ↗
  • Who funds SEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds UP NORTH ARTS INC ↗

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.

Oleson FoundationGrand Traverse Region…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Oleson FoundationMI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Weigel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Weigel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Seaside Seabird Sanctuary: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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