· Private foundation
Wickson-Link Memorial 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $212k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hidden Harvest | $40,000 |
| Frankenmuth Convention and Visitors Bureau | $30,000 |
| Delta College Foundation | $30,000 |
| SVSU Foundation | $20,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club | $16,000 |
| Saginaw Community Foundation | $13,500 |
| Saginaw Covenant Academy | $12,500 |
| YMCA | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan | $12,500 |
| Partnership Center | $12,000 |
| The Well of Saginaw Men's Shelter | $9,500 |
| Food Bank of Eastern Michigan | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,500 |
| CAN Council | $8,120 |
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, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +22% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 8 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- DCDELTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +143%
- HHHIDDEN HARVEST3× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +114%
- MCMAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS6× · 2017–2023 · $52k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- HLHOYT LIBRARY RENOVATIONone grant, 2018 · $30k
- FJFRANKENMUTH JAYCEES SPLASH PADone grant, 2018 · $20k
- CMCOVENANT - MARY FREE BEDone grant, 2020 · $20k
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 be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
The historical society of saginaw county is committed to serve the community by telling the continuing story of the people of the saginaw region through exploration, preservation and presentation of their historical and cultural heritage.
To provide high quality health care to individuals and community groups in Saginaw, Bay, and other nearby counties. Services are provided without regard to race, beliefs or ability to pay.
The mission of saginaw county community action committee, inc. is to fully participate in the development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs to serve low-income communities. the organization will serve as a proactive and…
To establish, maintain, facilitate, support, administer and /or operate a farmers' market in the city of saginaw.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Southwest michigan community action agency's purpose is to provide assistance to low income individuals in southwest michigan
To address and improve food equity by providing access to healthy foods and nutritional resources to individuals and communities.
Promotion of conventions & tourism in saginaw county
Support library activities through materials and services
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saginaw Future Inc and the most unlike its peers is Special Needs Vision Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 123 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 DELTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds FRANKENMUTH FARMERS MARKET ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS ↗
- Who funds READ Association of Saginaw County ↗
- Who funds MID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW INC ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAS ↗
- Who funds ROCK THE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds FRANKENMUTH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Morley Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Boutell Memorial Fund · Charles F& Adeline Barth Charitable 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 Wickson-Link Memorial 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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