· Private foundation
Dorsay
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 $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISABELLA COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| WINGS GUATEMALA | $30,000 |
| RESTAURANT CARE | $20,000 |
| WINGS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| LAB SCHOOL FUND | $5,000 |
| NEW SCHOOL WEST FUND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| RIVER SCHOOL | $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 (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +59% since the first grant, against +52% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ICISABELLA COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN9× · 2017–2025 · $415k · revenue +382%
- WJWomens Justice Initiative Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +111%
- EVEagle Village Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- CACULTURAL AND RECREATIONAL COMMISSIOone grant, 2024 · $158k
- CRCULTURAL & RECREATIONAL COMMISSIONone grant, 2021 · $100k
- CMCENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $65k
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.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
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…
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Children will discover their unique potential by living the Montessori lifestyle hand in hand with parents and staff.
To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
The African Resource Center informs connects and equips African immigrants in West Michigan with people and resources to foster a flourishing community in which recent African immigrants can prosper emotionally economically and socially.
The mission of The Women's Center is to significantly improve the mental health and well-being of all members of our community through counseling, education, and support - regardless of ability to pay.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
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 32 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 ISABELLA COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Mount Pleasant Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds Womens Justice Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd ↗
- Who funds Eagle Village Inc ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S AID SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MID MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Art Experience Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN MICHIGAN EQUINE THERAPY ↗
- Who funds The River School ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
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: The We Martin Foundation · Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd · Midland Area Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Dorsay funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorsay. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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