· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- PRPINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES2× · 2024–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +23%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - COLLEGE OF LITERATURE SCIENCE AND THE ARTS3× · 2022–2024 · $800k
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN3× · 2021–2024 · $625k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- MSMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $150k
- WMWEST MICHIGAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY INC DBA FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENSone grant, 2023 · $133k · revenue +9%
- HHAND2HANDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +38%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan and the most unlike its peers is AllArtWorks Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 HAND2HAND ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds KENT COUNTY YOUTH AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- 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 ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Doug Meijer and Kendall Meijer Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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