· Private foundation
William G Janis & Susanne M Janis Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +219% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $2.0M
- NMNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE4× · 2017–2021 · $800k
- NFNMC FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $214k
Funded once
- TSTRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONICone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -40%
- EPEASLING POOL RENOVATION FUNDSone grant, 2017 · $25k
- GTGrand Traverse Pavilions Foundationone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -35%
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.
We advocate and facilitate the development of a network of multipurpose recreational trails in Northern Lower Michigan.
Michigan trails & greenways alliance is the statewide voice for nonmotorized trail users, helping people build, connect and promote trails for a healthier and more prosperous michigan.
Educate the public about tourism in the grand traverse area
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.
To enrich the communities of Southeastern Michigan in fostering excellence and innovation to our community in the performance of orchestral music to educate current and future audiences
Provides funding, learning, and connections to address our region's complex problems and create community assets for all.
To present west michigan audiences with high quality broadway productions and to provide student arts education programs, enriching the community through professional performing arts, as well as to expand the diversity of theatre in the…
The traverse city film festival is committed to showing just great movies and helping to save one of americas few indigenous art forms - the cinema. we are committed to showing great movies that both entertain and enlighten the audience.…
To renovate and restore the historic theatre and to provide a versatile center for the arts, entertainment, and education.
The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.
Impact 100 traverse city collectively funds transformational grants in the areas of environment/preservation, education, arts & culture, family, and health & wellness in the five county area of lower northwestern michigan including grand…
The Corporation shall have the purpose of supporting the creation and promotion of the arts, including visual and performance art, and providing education regarding the arts. The purposes include: to build and stage a bold mixture of new…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 31 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 TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds Grand Traverse Pavilions Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH CHILDRENS CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE AREA RECREATION & TRANSPORTATION TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Les & Ann Biederman Foundation Inc · The Julius H and Barbara B Beers Family Foundation · Siebenthaler Foundation · Hayden Foundation · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Kegley Family Foundation · Green Brick Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William G Janis & Susanne M Janis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William G Janis & Susanne M Janis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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