· Private foundation
Bennie C Wickens Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| REDEEMER CHURCH | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| HOLY CROSS SERVICES | $15,000 |
| E GLOBAL FAMILY | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $10,000 |
| GIVE-A-KID PROJECT | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY OF ST JUDE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH OF LANSING | $5,000 |
| PETALS AND PINECONES | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GLGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +37%
- HCHOLY CROSS SERVICES INC6× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue -47%
- RCREDEEMER CHURCH6× · 2019–2025 · $80k
Funded once
- SVST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY ST THOMAS AQUINASone grant, 2017 · $15k
- HHHELPING HANDS CHILD CARE REDEEMER CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $15k
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2017 · $15k
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 mission of My Fathers House International Inc (MFHI) is to assist the orphaned and abandoned.
Growing hope through love is organized as a child welfare agency that maintains a child placing agency license through the department of child welfare licensing and contracts with michigan department of health and human services to license…
Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.
Friendship house meets the basic needs of low income residents of hamtramck, mi. this assistance includes food, clothing, baby supplies and school supplies.
Provide free legal assistance to indigent and low income persons
The mission of casa for kids, inc. is to provide volunteer advocates to work independently for the best interest of each child service coming under the jurisdiction of michigan barry, eaton, and ingham county courts due to abuse and…
Collection of new unused mittens to be distributed to those in need in the detroit, michigan and other nearby underserved cities.
To serve people, build community, pursue justice.
Christian Services serves as a resource center and clearinghouse matching resources of over 200 Lansing, MI area churches to needs from local indigent people. Coordination of Thanksgiving food baskets, clothes closets, and transitional…
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
To provide a stable christian home for girls from crisis backgrounds.
Catholic human services inc. enhances the lives of those we serve by providing hope-filled social, emotional and spiritual support to all people.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 20 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.
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bennie C Wickens Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bennie C Wickens Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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