· Private foundation
Doug Meijer and Kendall Meijer 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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $755k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES | $600,000 |
| BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS | $500,000 |
| NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC | $200,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH MICHIGAN | $130,000 |
| THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (DOUG MEIJER GIVING FUND) | $100,000 |
| THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (KENDALL MEIJER GIVING FUND) | $100,000 |
| I UNDERSTAND | $75,000 |
| BISSELL PET CHARITIES | $50,000 |
| ALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY | $50,000 |
| KENT COUNTY YOUTH AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GRAND RAPIDS YOUTH COMMONWEALTH | $35,000 |
| HOPE NETWORK FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| CAROLINE'S PEACH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ALLARTWORKS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of its 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 +21% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 13 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PRPINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES2× · 2024–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +23%
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN3× · 2021–2024 · $625k · revenue +21%- ACALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- MSMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $150k
- WMWEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $133k · revenue +26%
- MCMOSAIC COUNSELINGone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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.
To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.
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Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
To create a coordinated, integrated system of early childhood services that supports all families in kent county so every young child in kent county will enter kindergarten ready to succeed in school and in life. the organization's most…
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
The greening of detroit's mission is the sustainable growth of a healthy urban community through trees, green spaces, healthy living, education, training and job opportunities.
The mission of the kalamazoo humane society is to nuture the wellbeing of animals and people in our communities.
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
Healing the children michigan/ohio is a not for profit humanitarian organization dedicated to securing gratis medical and surgical care for children in need.
Education of young people in the Montessori method
To empower children in our community who are facing serious obstacles, to help raise their potential for success in the family, in school and in their world.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 27 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 PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS ↗
- Who funds DETROIT HORSE POWER ↗
- Who funds ALANO CLUB OF KENT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KENT COUNTY YOUTH AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds HAND2HAND ↗
- Who funds KENTWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AllArtWorks Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN DBA VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY ↗
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 · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · The Meijer Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Doug Meijer and Kendall Meijer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Doug Meijer and Kendall Meijer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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