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Wildfong Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND TRAVERSE AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $28,500 |
| SAINT FRANCIS CHURCH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,500 |
| GENERATIONS AHEAD | $6,000 |
| PARAKLESIS - PEACE RANCH | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $4,000 |
| MICHIGAN'S PREMIER BASEBALL | $1,600 |
| EASTERSEALS | $1,000 |
| REINING LIBERTY RANCH | $500 |
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 (FY19–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- RLREINING LIBERTY RANCH7× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +64%
- 2F231 FUSION FASTPITCH4× · 2019–2022 · $4k · revenue +115%
- MPMICHIGAN'S PREMIER BASEBALL INC2× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - GRAND TRAVone grant, 2019 · $5k
- GTGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL COMM FOUNDone grant, 2019 · $5k
- PCPOLESTAR COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $500
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 promote team spirit and encourage youth to be more healthy through exercise and team work
Developing youth through travel sports to achieve higher objectives both on and off the field
Maintaining youth sports programs
Domestic violence shelter
Our mission is to not only develop young athletes into the best baseball players that they can be, but to develop the "whole" person. honesty, integrity, discipline, teamwork, and sportsmanship are at the core of all we do. the detroit…
To provide domestic and sexual violence crisis response, supportive counseling, and prevention services.
To promote physical fitness, sportsmanship and teamwork among young women by providing field rentals, equipment and tournament fees
To support and empower refugees, asylum seekers, and others seeking humanitarian protection on their journey to safety, security, and freedom by providing comprehensive services in an inclusive and welcoming space.
Youth travel baseball.
Lions youth softball is a youth sports training and development organization specializing in fast pitch softball for girls. the organization supports nearly 100 girls and their families from ages 8 to 16.
Provides at risk, and homeless veterans with temporary housing and supportive services, e.g., medical, vocational, psychological, and educational training to regain or improve their status in society.
To ensure that children who have experienced abuse and/or neglect are in safe and permanent homes by recruiting, screening and training volunteers to advocate on their behalf within the third judicial circuit court's family juvenile…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Resource Center Grand Traverse Area and the most unlike its peers is 231 Fusion Fastpitch. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
7 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. 7 of the 20 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.
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: Oleson Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wildfong Family 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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