· Private foundation
Edward & Marie Abele Memorial Fund
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
91% of Edward & Marie Abele Memorial Fund’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Catholic Community Foundation Of Mid-Michigan, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
- $250k+1 grant · $401k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MI | $400,962 |
| Individual grant recipient | $38,000 |
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 (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% 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
1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 2 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.
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edward & Marie Abele Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward & Marie Abele Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.