· Private foundation
Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k33 grants · $139k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $269,500 |
| FREEDOM RIVER | $200,000 |
| UM KELLOGG EYE CENTER | $200,000 |
| UM BELLEVILLE HIGH SBHC | $155,400 |
| UM FORD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY | $150,000 |
| MIDLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $128,000 |
| IHN AT ALPHA HOUSE | $100,000 |
| MANY HANDS LIFESHARING COMM | $100,000 |
| MARY FREE BED REHAB HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| ST LOUIS CENTER | $100,000 |
| LACASA CENTER | $100,000 |
| CALVIN UNIVERSITY | $85,000 |
| YPSILANTI DISTRICT LIBRARY | $80,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN | $77,000 |
| HOPE CLINIC | $61,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +37% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
172 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2025, 114 since wound down; 52 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN5× · 2018–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +28%
- ABAmerican Bird Conservancy6× · 2018–2024 · $850k · revenue +96%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN8× · 2018–2025 · $528k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UGUM GERALD R FORD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICYone grant, 2017 · $250k
- UCUM CENTER FOR EDUCATION OF WOMENone grant, 2017 · $100k
- COCOUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTERHOUSEone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
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.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
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
267 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 267 of the 422 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Midland Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds ALBION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OZONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LACASA ↗
- Who funds UMRC-PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Ann Arbor Art Association ↗
- Who funds CORNER HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Arbor Hospice Foundation ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FINLANDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREENHILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds Communities First Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHTENAW COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · The Carls Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Midland Area Community Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Trinity Health - Michigan
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
How this is measured
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