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Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation at a glance

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Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$305k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$538kHuman Services$321kFood & Nutrition$267kArts & Culture$209kYouth Development$156kHealth$132kHousing & Shelter$128kCommunity Improvement$124kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $212k
$6,840
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan$12,500
YMCA$12,500
Individual grant recipient$12,500
Saginaw Covenant Academy$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
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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 19%DIAPER ALLIANCE: $5k → 9%SAMARITAS: $13k → 21%SAMARITAS: $5k → 21%DIAPER ALLIANCE: $5k → 9%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF SAGINAW: $5k → 18%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF SAGINAW: $1k → 18%Wellspring Lutheran Services: $5k → 18%Underground Railroad: $4k → 18%UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: $3k → 18%Underground Railroad: $2k → 18%Hidden Harvest: $70k → 18%Hidden Harvest: $40k → 18%HIDDEN HARVEST: $2k → 18%UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: $8k → 18%UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: $5k → 18%UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: $4k → 18%UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: $4k → 18%UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: $4k → 18%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 59 repeat orgs$375k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
55

Total granted

$1.8M
$317k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-15%

Still filing today

47%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • DC
    DELTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +143%
  • HH
    HIDDEN HARVEST
    3× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +360%
  • MC
    MAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS
    6× · 2017–2023 · $52k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • HL
    HOYT LIBRARY RENOVATION
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • CM
    COVENANT - MARY FREE BED
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • FJ
    FRANKENMUTH JAYCEES SPLASH PAD
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
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
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

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

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2
Historical Society of Saginaw County

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.

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3
Great Lakes Bay Health Centers

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.

Health
4
Saginaw County Community Action Committee Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Downtown Saginaw Farmers Market

To establish, maintain, facilitate, support, administer and /or operate a farmers' market in the city of saginaw.

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6
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Southwest Michigan Community Action Agency

Southwest michigan community action agency's purpose is to provide assistance to low income individuals in southwest michigan

Community Improvement
8
Saginaw Community Food Club & Kitchen

To address and improve food equity by providing access to healthy foods and nutritional resources to individuals and communities.

Food & Nutrition
9
Saginaw County Convention & Visitors Bureau

Promotion of conventions & tourism in saginaw county

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10
Saginaw Public Libraries Foundation

Support library activities through materials and services

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11
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
12
Saginaw Society for Crippled Children
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saginaw Future Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
23/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SVSU Foundation: $102,500 · OtherSVSU FoundationSVSU - COLLEGE OF BUSINESS: $100,000 · OtherSVSU - COLLEGE OF BUSINESSCMU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $81,000 · OtherCMU SCHOOL OF MEDICINEIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYMCA: $76,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $66,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $57,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $55,000 · Other+90 more: $872,886 · Other+90 moreDELTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationDELTA COLL…READ Association of Saginaw County: $43,127 · EducationREAD Assoc…FRANKENMUTH AREA FINE ARTS COUNCIL: $13,800 · EducationFRANKENMUT…+1 more: $6,000 · EducationHIDDEN HARVEST: $112,000 · Human ServicesHIDDEN HA…UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC: $32,358 · Human ServicesUNDERGROU…SAMARITAS: $17,500 · Human ServicesSAMARITASTHE DIAPER ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE DIAPE…+2 more: $10,640 · Human Services+2 moreFRANKENMUTH FARMERS MARKET: $87,500 · Food & NutritionPARTNERSHIP CENTER: $29,500 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $21,500 · Food & NutritionMAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS: $52,000 · Arts & CultureMID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $33,009 · Arts & CultureFRANKENMUTH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMidland Center for the Arts Inc: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $7,292 · Arts & CultureSaginaw Community Foundation: $73,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SAGINAW COUNTY: $5,500 · PhilanthropyMICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE: $60,000 · HealthMICHIGAN FORENSIC EXAMINERS: $12,840 · HealthHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SAGINAW: $4,500 · Health
Other$1,491,386Education$212,927Human Services$182,498Food & Nutrition$138,500Arts & Culture$112,301Philanthropy$79,000Health$77,340

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDELTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetHIDDEN HARVEST: $112,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFRANKENMUTH FARMERS MARKET: $87,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetSaginaw Community Foundation: $73,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE: $60,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetMAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS: $52,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetREAD Association of Saginaw County: $43,127 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetMID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $33,009 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetEMMAUS HOUSE OF SAGINAW INC: $32,500 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetUNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC: $32,358 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERSHIP CENTER: $29,500 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetRescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $21,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION: $18,120 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAMARITAS: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKENMUTH WOMEN'S CLUB: $15,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetFRANKENMUTH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetROCK THE ISLAND: $15,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOYT PARK: $15,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFRANKENMUTH AREA FINE ARTS COUNCIL: $13,800 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetEast Side Soup Kitchen: $11,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DIAPER ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetSAGINAW VALLEY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN OF COLORS: $7,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSAGINAW FUTURE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetChild & Family Service of Saginaw: $5,640 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAGINAW COUNTY: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLUTHERAN CHILD & FAMILY SERVICE OF MICHIGAN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMidland Center for the Arts Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELL OF SAGINAW: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SAGINAW: $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAGINAW BASIN LAND CONSERVANCY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOLY CROSS SERVICES INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSVRC Industries Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL NEEDS VISION CLINIC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTEMPLEARTS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAGINAW CHORAL SOCIETY INC: $2,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPIT & BALCONY INC: $2,392 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPRIDE IN SAGINAW INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 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 FRANKENMUTH WOMEN'S CLUB ↗
  • Who funds FRANKENMUTH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ROCK THE ISLAND ↗

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.

Allen E & Marie A Nic…Saginaw Community Fou…Frank N Andersen Foun…Wm McNally Family Fou…Morley FoundationAlice E Turner Memori…Wallace & Irene Bronn…Consumers Energy Foun…Harvey Randall Wickes…Bierlein Companies Fo…Boutell Memorial FundCharles F& Adeline Ba…
Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial FoundationMI100.3× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation 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 123 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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