· Private foundation
Wolverine World Wide Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $79k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ameden | $200,000 |
| Greater Grand Rapids Cham | $100,000 |
| Th Mcm Am Jimmy | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Pensole Lewis Colege Of B | $49,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Parent Project Muscular D | $10,000 |
| Calvin University | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Daniella Haf Association | $5,000 |
| American Cancer Society | $5,000 |
| Horizons For Homeless Chi | $3,500 |
| Kids Food Basket | $2,165 |
| Thompsonhine College | $500 |
| Grand Valley State University | $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 (FY20–23, $189k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
51 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $493k 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
- TTTWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $803k · revenue +4%
- RPRIGHT PLACE FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $250k · revenue +90%
- GGGreater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- GRGRAND RAPIDS WHITEWATER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +78%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -21%- GGGREATER GR CHAMBER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bissell Pet Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 129 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 TWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIGHT PLACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTPRIZE GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds THE OUTDOOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS WHITEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ODC NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF WESTERN MI ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Land Conservancy of West Michigan ↗
- Who funds FOOTWEAR DISTRIBUTORS AND RETAILERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC · Daniel & Pamella Devos Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Steelcase Foundation · The Wege 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 Wolverine World Wide 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.
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Waltham Partnership for Youth Inc — 4% of income from government
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.