· Private foundation
Wild Shore Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LES CHENEAUX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LES CHENEAUX CULINARY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MACKINAC STRAITS HEALTH SYSTEM INC | $12,000 |
| LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY INC | $10,000 |
| INDIANA BALLET CONSERVATORY INC | $3,000 |
| GREAT LAKES BOAT BUILDING SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| RETIREMENT HOME FOR HORSES INC | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LES CHENEAUX COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY MICHIGAN CHAPTER | $1,000 |
| MICHIGAN NATURE ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LTLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $681k · revenue +95%
- MSMACKINAC STRAITS HEALTH SYSTEM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +114%
- GLGREAT LAKES BOAT BUILDING SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +570%
Funded once
- LCLES CHENEAUX EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0% · 97% of their budget
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD FED OF AMERone grant, 2017 · $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.
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.
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
FLSP was established May 25, 1992 and functions privately, as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, to promote the wise use and conservation of the Ludington State Park, one of the most beautiful state parks ever.
Uniting citizens to conserve, protect and enhance michigan's natural resources and outdoor heritage
To protect natural, scenic, recreational, and agricultural lands and their natural diversity in mid-michigan so rural landscapes are preserved, and to promote the protection of these lands and their natural diversity through education and…
To protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.
To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
To protect the environment of loon lake, its waters, shore lands and watershed so that future generations may enjoy the experiences of a beautiful lake.
Up land conservancy protects land in michigan's upper peninsula by owning it as nature preserves and working forest reserves, and through conservation easements(perpetual, voluntary agreements that guard the conservation values of the…
Lake michigan conservation
Glacial Lakes Conservancy, as a land trust, is a nonprofit organization that, as part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC STRAITS HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES BOAT BUILDING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LES CHENEAUX CULINARY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIANA BALLET CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LES CHENEAUX EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN NATURE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds S O S VERMILION ↗
- Who funds Retirement Home For Horses Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Iowa Legal Aid Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LES CHENEAUX COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wild Shore Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wild Shore Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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