· Private foundation
Weinlander Fitzhugh Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAY FUTURE | $3,700 |
| GRACE ADVENTURES | $2,000 |
| MID MI COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE HEROES OPERATION | $500 |
| BAY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION | $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 (FY21–21, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BFBAY FUTURE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +138%
- GAGRACE ADVENTURES4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +7%
- BABAY AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +333%
Funded once
- BCBAY CITY ANTIQUE TOY & FIREHOUSE MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $4k
- GCGLADWIN COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1k
- MMMID MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +34%
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.
To faciliatate and collaborate on programs that support a thriving community and economic growth in bay county and the great lakes bay region.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
The baytown chamber of commerce is a business organization created to provide the leadership to enhance economic growth and a better quality of life for the baytown area.
Identifying, promoting, and creating awareness for projects to improve the quality of life for citizens of the great lakes bay area.
Bay harbor foundation, in close harmony with its members, dedicated itself to provide assistance to not for profit cultural, social service and arts based organizations in northern michigan geographic focus area.
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
To support the development and maintenance of non-motorized pathways throughout the great lakes bay region.
A. land acquisition and stewardship-bcc protects natural areas close to home by purchasing or accepting donations of land. land held in trust is open to the community free of charge. stewardship activities include environmental…
Our program service accomplishments include successes within the policy and research framework for bay area infrastructure including transportation, housing and land use, homelessness, workforce of the future, gender equity and diversity,…
To provide leadership in restoring, enhancing, and protecting the marine resources and watersheds of morro bay, estero bay, and the central coast of california.
To provide residents of bay county with financial and depository services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Isabella Seniors. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 31 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 BAY FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOW BAY AREA FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MID MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEROES OPERATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BRIAN'S HOUSE COMMUNITY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISABELLA SENIORS ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TONI & TRISH HOUSE FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL ↗
- Who funds BAY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BAY VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Little Forks Conservancy 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: Bay Area Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Russell H & Maxine E Smith Charitable Foundation · Gougeon Employees Foundation · The Kantzler Foundation · Nickless Family Charitable Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Dow Company Foundation · Midland Area Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Weinlander Fitzhugh Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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