· Private foundation
Whirlpool Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k107 grants · $574k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $361k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+8 grants · $8.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNERSTONE ALLIANCE | $1,800,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN | $1,632,314 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL | $1,250,000 |
| HARBOR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MI | $925,000 |
| CORNERSTONE PUBLIC ASSET FUND | $575,824 |
| WHIRLPOOL COLLECTIVE IMPACT FUND | $475,000 |
| BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $392,443 |
| DARKE COUNTY UNITED WAY | $236,894 |
| UNITED WAY OF SANDUSKY COUNTY | $221,379 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE OCOEE REGION | $145,734 |
| CURIOUS KIDS' MUSEUM | $101,930 |
| MICHIGAN COUNCIL OF WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY | $100,000 |
| MOSAIC CCDA | $100,000 |
| THE EMERGE INNOVATION HUB | $75,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $579k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
241 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2024, 163 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $447k 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
- HSHARBOR SHORES PUBLIC ASSET FUND INC6× · 2017–2024 · $18M · revenue +447%
- CACORNERSTONE ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +55% · 92% of their budget
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC4× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +36%
Funded once
- LHLakeland Health Foundationone grant, 2020 · $667k
- WWCIFWCCGEone grant, 2023 · $350k
- LHLakeland Health Foundationsone grant, 2019 · $333k
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.
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In order to mobilize community resources to help people measurably improve their lives - we work collaboratively with our community to identify priorities, and then decide which strategies, dollars, and partnerships should be used to bring…
United way of the midlands mission is "we unite our community's caring spirit to build a stronger tomorrow".
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…
United way's mission is to improve lives.
United way works to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another. united way is a funder, a mobilizer, a convener and a fundraiser. united way is a community builder, connecting people through philanthropy,…
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
United way connects people and resources to improve the quality of life in the midlands. united way invests in a broad range of community programs that increase access to health care, improve student success, assist people in crisis to…
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
Connect resources to important community needs. the organization focuses on the most important human service needs facing the community and uses a variety of methods to communicate with community members in order to priortize the issues…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Best Buy Foundation. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
108 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. 108 of the 539 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HARBOR SHORES PUBLIC ASSET FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SANDUSKY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WHIRLPOOL COLLECTIVE IMPACT FUND ↗
- Who funds Harbor Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds DARKE COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CURIOUS KIDS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE OCOEE REGION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF HANCOCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds BEST BUY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC CLUB OF SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds United Way of Midland County ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF BENTON HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGE INNOVATION HUB ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC ↗
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: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · The Marzke Family Foundation · United Way of Southwest Michigan · American Electric Power Foundation · Hanson Family Foundation · St Josephbenton Harbor Rotary Foundation Inc · The Covia Foundation · Bill Nygren Foundation · The Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · Fettig Family Foundation · The McLoughlin Family 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 Whirlpool 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.
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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