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Arno & Caroline Mossner Memorial Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Arno & Caroline Mossner Memorial Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$52kHealth$13kRecreation & Sports$13kFood & Nutrition$9kHuman Services$6kReligion$5kScience & Tech$5kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$301k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORE THEATRE GROUP$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
GROSSE POINTE COMMUNITY CHORUS$1,250
MICHIGAN'S OWN MILITARY MUSEUM$1,000
GROSSE POINTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION$1,000
BARN THEATER$1,000
OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY$600
LIONS CLUB$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MICHIGAN BREAST FEEDING NETWORK: $5k → 16%MICHIGAN BREAST FEEDING NETWORK: $500 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$119k · 18 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

$119k
$9k

Still filing today

28%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2017–2020 · $20k
  • LC
    LIONS CLUB
    8× · 2018–2025 · $14k
  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue -10%

Funded once

  • CT
    CORE THEATER GROUP
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • SM
    SOUTHEASTERN MI IBCLC'S OF COLOR
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • FJ
    FRANKENMUTH JAMES E WICKSON
    one grant, 2019 · $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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLIONS CLUB: $14,000 · OtherLIONS CLUBCORE THEATRE GROUP: $10,000 · OtherCORE THEATRE GROUPMICHIGAN'S OWN MILITARY MUSEUM: $9,000 · OtherMICHIGAN'S OWN MILITARY MUSEUMMILFORD HIGH SCHOOL VOCAL PROGRAM: $6,000 · OtherMILFORD HIGH SCHOOL VOCAL PROGRAMTHE GROSSE POINTE COMMUNITY CHORUS: $5,550 · OtherTHE GROSSE POINTE COMMUNITY CHORUSCORE THEATER GROUP: $5,000 · OtherMILFORD HIGH SCHOOL THEATER: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherCITY OF FRANKENMUTH BEAUTIFICATION: $4,500 · OtherMILFORD HIGH SCHOOL VOCAL: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,500 · Other+10 more: $11,500 · Other+10 moreHENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION: $12,000 · HealthHENRY FOR…FRANKENMUTH FARMERS MARKET: $6,800 · Food & NutritionMICHIGAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK: $5,500 · Human ServicesFRANKENMUTH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $5,250 · Arts & CultureTHE FRANKENMUTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyOhio Northern University: $1,400 · EducationGROSSE POINTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Education
Other$103,050Health$12,000Food & Nutrition$6,800Human Services$5,500Arts & Culture$5,250Philanthropy$4,000Education$2,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKENMUTH FARMERS MARKET: $6,800 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetMICHIGAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK: $5,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFRANKENMUTH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $5,250 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE FRANKENMUTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOhio Northern University: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROSSE POINTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 HENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRANKENMUTH FARMERS MARKET ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN BREASTFEEDING NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds FRANKENMUTH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FRANKENMUTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Ohio Northern University ↗
  • Who funds GROSSE POINTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arno & Caroline Mossner Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arno & Caroline Mossner Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Arno & Caroline Mossner Memorial Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Arno & Caroline Mossner Memorial Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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