· Private foundation
Brown Tassell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k24 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SAINT MARY'S FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HELEN DEVOS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN VETERANS HOME | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS'S RESEARCH HOSPIT | $10,000 |
| WORLD MISSION | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF WEST MI | $8,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY | $5,000 |
| IRONMAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HUMANE SOCEITY | $4,000 |
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 10%, 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.
34 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 9 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SMSAINT MARY'S FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +126%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +50%- MTMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- FOFANS OF VALLEY FIELDgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +76%
- FLFRED & LENA MEIJER HEART CENTERone grant, 2017 · $50k
- WMWEST MICHIGAN HISPANIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Uniting christian faith leaders to serve with humility and love for the flourishing of all in our community.
None
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Centrica meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.
Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.
We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Hospice care - wings of hope hospice and palliative care, inc. provides compassionate care in the later stages of life and support through the grief experience for individuals and families.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
The mission of hospice of holland is to provide the most compassionate and highest quality end-of-life care through physical, emotional, and spiritual support.
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…
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 52 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 SAINT MARY'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FANS OF VALLEY FIELD ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES WESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds UNKNOWN NATIONS ↗
- Who funds GRAND VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE IRONMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Center of West Michigan ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Faith Hospice ↗
- Who funds EXODUS PLACE ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING LIGHT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE REHAB CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS WESTERN MICHIGAN ↗
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 · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Weller Family Foundation · The Korff Foundation · Ufp Industries Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Edp Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brown Tassell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brown Tassell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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