· Private foundation
Culture Need & Heritage 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN | $3,163 |
| YOUNG LIFE - SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN | $3,000 |
| THE SOUP KITCHEN INC | $2,051 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $2,010 |
| COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| EMERGENCY SHELTER SERVICES | $2,000 |
| READINESS CENTER INC | $1,545 |
| LORY'S PLACE | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,033 |
| HARBOR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,023 |
| WELL OF GRACE MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
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, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against -21% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FAFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN8× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +38%
- HAHospice at Home Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +18%
University of Chicago3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- ESEMERGENCY SHELTER BERRIEN COUNTRYone grant, 2024 · $5k
- BHBENTON HARBOR HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2024 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
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…
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
To connect the power of the people who care with causes and organizations that strengthen our communities.
To provide community access to quality health care.
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
Hospice of Michigan, Inc. meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.
Bellin health is a community owned not-for-profit organization responsible for improving the health and wellbeing of people living in northeast wisconsin and the upper peninsula of michigan, and all others we serve. we carry out this…
Benton habitat for humanity is a countywide ecumenical ministry that seeks to eliminate substandard housing and to make decent shelter a matter of action and conscience by having people from all income levels work together.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
None
Partnering with economically disadvantaged individuals and families. Hancock County Habitat For Humanity seeks to eliminate poverty housing and to make decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Harbor hospice foundation's purpose is to support activities of its nonprofit affiliated corporation, hospice of muskegon county, inc., also known as harbor hospice. in so doing, it shall provide relief of the poor, the distressed and the…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 38 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 FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice at Home Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds The Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds READINESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Harbor Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds Well of Grace Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds BENTON HARBOR PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BERRIEN COUNTY CANCER SERVICES 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: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · Whirlpool Foundation · Fettig Family Foundation · United Way of Southwest Michigan · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Culture Need & Heritage Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Culture Need & Heritage Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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