· Private foundation
Events for Good
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JDRF | $11,521 |
| UPWARD BOUND | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| MICHIGAN MOUNTAIN BIKING ASSN | $4,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $2,065 |
| BCRFORG | $2,000 |
| LEAGUE OF MICHIGAN BICYCLISTS | $1,226 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB HOLLAND | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $520 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE | $500 |
| SKYDIVE BRONCOS | $417 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FELT | $400 |
| MAKE A WISH | $210 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $100 |
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 (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MDRC5× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +36%- UBUPWARD BOUND3× · 2022–2024 · $29k
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2021–2024 · $23k
Funded once
- FCFEARLESS CHURCHESone grant, 2023 · $500
- GOGIRLS ON THE RUN OTTAWA COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $300
- BCBENTHEIM CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $250
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.
A voice of the building industry in Michigan. The primary purpose is to positively influence the legislative, regulatory and legal issues that affect the industry.
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
Preserving, protecting, and promoting mountain bike access and diverse riding opportunities on metropolitain detroit's public lands through education, communication, and unified action.
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 league's mission is to promote racial equity, economic security, health, and well being for all people in michigan through policy change.
The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…
Michigan Rising Action is focused on holding special interest networks accountable and advancing conservative principles. We're fighting for limited government, lowering taxes, fighting government over-regulation that stifles freedom, free…
Michigan conservative action policies (mcap) is an organization dedicated to educating michiganders on important policy issues. the organization conducts policy research and public polling in michigan to better understand current opinions…
To advocate for the cannabis manufacturers in michigan
Social welfare and issue advocacy
Our mission is to amplify connect and support the people organizations and communities demanding urgent bold and equitable solutions for a just transition to a resilient future.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 23 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.
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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Events for Good funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Events for Good. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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