· Private foundation
Answer Health 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 |
|---|---|
| EXALTA HEALTH | $4,000 |
| OASIS OF HOPE CENTER | $4,000 |
| KIDS FOOD BASKET | $4,000 |
| OUR KITCHEN TABLE | $4,000 |
| GUIDING LIGHT | $2,000 |
| MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| WOMEN AT RISK INTERNATIONAL INC | $2,000 |
| BRODYS BE CAFE LLC | $2,000 |
| WEDGEWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $2,000 |
| AREA AGENCY ON AGING OF WESTERN MICHIGAN INC | $2,000 |
| BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 0 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; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +12%
- HIHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +23%
- GLGUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- NKNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $900 · revenue +93%
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.
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
Hope is a not-for-profit interdenominational christian medical, dental, and social service organization. hope's goal is to provide compassionate and practical help, ministering to the whole person with dignity and respect. this includes…
Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.
None
Agewell services mission is to promote healthy aging and maximize independence through nutrition, wellness, and supportive services in the community.
Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.
To operate and manage according to law and applicable regulations, a certified home for the ages for qualified residents of Kalamazoo county and its surrounding counties.
We bring food to neighbors, help vulnerable people find home, and provide empowering employment through our community-supported social enterprise and collaborative partnerships.the 2023 990 was for 10/1-12/31/23 due to an accounting period…
The African Resource Center informs connects and equips African immigrants in West Michigan with people and resources to foster a flourishing community in which recent African immigrants can prosper emotionally economically and socially.
Distribution of food to the needy
Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. the organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds OUR KITCHEN TABLE ↗
- Who funds HEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AREA AGENCY ON AGING OF WESTERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AT RISK INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS OF HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BE CAFE ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation of Michigan 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 Rapids Community Foundation · Corewell Health Group Return · The Meijer Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Barnabas Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Answer Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Answer Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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