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Weinlander Fitzhugh Foundation Inc at a glance

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Weinlander Fitzhugh Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$17kCommunity Improvement$12kArts & Culture$9kReligion$8kHealth$5kHuman Services$3kRecreation & Sports$1kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$22k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FRIENDS OF ISABELLA SENIORS: $500 → 19%TONI & TRISH HOUSE: $250 → 14%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48k · 14 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
16

Total granted

$48k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+6%

Still filing today

50%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • BF
    BAY FUTURE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +138%
  • GA
    GRACE ADVENTURES
    4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +7%
  • BA
    BAY AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +333%

Funded once

  • BC
    BAY CITY ANTIQUE TOY & FIREHOUSE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • MB
    MCLAREN BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -37%
  • WL
    WELLSPRING LUTHERAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
Bay Area Chamber of Commerce

To faciliatate and collaborate on programs that support a thriving community and economic growth in bay county and the great lakes bay region.

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2
Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce

To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.

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3
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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4
Greater Baytown Chamber of Commerce

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.

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5
Great Lakes Bay Region Quality of Life Council

Identifying, promoting, and creating awareness for projects to improve the quality of life for citizens of the great lakes bay area.

Environment
6
Bay Harbor Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
7
Legacy Land Conservancy

Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever

Environment
8
Great Lakes Bay Regional Trail

To support the development and maintenance of non-motorized pathways throughout the great lakes bay region.

Recreation & Sports
9
Bay County Conservancy Inc

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…

Environment
10
Bay Area Council

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,…

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11
Bay Foundation of Morro Bay

To provide leadership in restoring, enhancing, and protecting the marine resources and watersheds of morro bay, estero bay, and the central coast of california.

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12
Hello Credit Union

To provide residents of bay county with financial and depository services.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherSAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYSTATE THEATRE: $4,500 · OtherSTATE THEATREMID MI COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · OtherMID MI COLLEGE FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $3,600 · OtherCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INCBAY CITY ANTIQUE TOY & FIREHOUSE MUSEUM: $3,500 · OtherBAY CITY ANTIQUE TOY & FIREHOUSE MUSEUMDOW BAY AREA FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · OtherDOW BAY AREA FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION+12 more: $7,295 · Other+12 moreBAY FUTURE INC: $8,700 · Community ImprovementBAY FUTURE INCBAY AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $2,925 · Community ImprovementBAY AREA CHAMBER FOUNDA…GREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE: $750 · Community ImprovementGREAT LAKES BAY REGIONA…GRACE ADVENTURES: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsGRACE ADVENTU…BAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyBRIAN'S HOUSE COMMUNITY GROUP INC: $500 · PhilanthropyBAY VETERANS FOUNDATION: $150 · PhilanthropySAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY: $1,000 · EnvironmentThe Little Forks Conservancy Inc: $100 · EnvironmentTHE HEROES OPERATION: $1,000 · Public BenefitFRIENDS OF ISABELLA SENIORS: $500 · Human ServicesTONI & TRISH HOUSE FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL: $250 · Human ServicesSAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500 · Education
Other$34,895Community Improvement$12,375Recreation & Sports$7,000Philanthropy$1,150Environment$1,100Public Benefit$1,000Human Services$750Education$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBAY FUTURE INC: $8,700 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGRACE ADVENTURES: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $2,925 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetDOW BAY AREA FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCLAREN BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEROES OPERATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMID MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREAT LAKES BAY REGIONAL ALLIANCE: $750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBAY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISABELLA SENIORS: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIAN'S HOUSE COMMUNITY GROUP INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTONI & TRISH HOUSE FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAY VETERANS FOUNDATION: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Little Forks Conservancy Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Bay Area Community Fo…Consumers Energy Foun…Russell H & Maxine E …Gougeon Employees Fou…The Kantzler Foundati…Nickless Family Chari…Bierlein Companies Fo…Dow Company FoundationMidland Area Communit…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Bay Area Community FoundationMI30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Weinlander Fitzhugh Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Weinlander Fitzhugh Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Weinlander Fitzhugh Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Weinlander Fitzhugh Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 31 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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