Michigan · Private foundation
David & Carol Myers Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $5.1M
- Granted FY2023
- 63
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2023
- $4.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $503,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 60
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 21
- Total assets, FY2023
- $66M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations David & Carol Myers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 60 | $3.9M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $2.5M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $2.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Church World Service Inc | $1,215,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Bread for the World Institute | $1,200,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Community Action House | $833,000 | 3 | 6% |
| American Psychological Foundation | $521,777 | 3 | 22% |
| Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial | $500,000 | 1 | 52% |
| American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem Inc | $490,000 | 3 | 6% |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | $318,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Ethiopia | $260,000 | 3 | 33% |
| Alliance to End Hunger | $250,000 | 1 | 12% |
| The ONE Campaign | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
David & Carol Myers Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Larry and Karen Mulder Foundation · Fred H & Mary S Dore Charitable Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · Greater Ottawa County United Way · Millerknoll Foundation · One Call for All · Bainbridge Community Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · The Bianchi Family Foundation Javier Ordaz Cerity Partners · Howard Miller Foundation
How this is measured
About David & Carol Myers Foundation
- How much does David & Carol Myers Foundation give?
- David & Carol Myers Foundation reported 63 itemized grants totaling $4,290,742, out of $5,100,871 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 60 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does David & Carol Myers Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are International (10%), Food & Nutrition (7%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are David & Carol Myers Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Church World Service Inc ($1.2M), Bread for the World Institute ($1.2M), Community Action House ($833k).
- Does David & Carol Myers Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does David & Carol Myers Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as David & Carol Myers Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc, Larry and Karen Mulder Foundation, Fred H & Mary S Dore Charitable Foundation.
- Where is David & Carol Myers Foundation based?
- David & Carol Myers Foundation is based in MI.
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