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Hess Wm G & Myrtle Charitable Tr Xxxxx0005

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$325k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$6.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Hess Wm G & Myrtle Charitable Tr Xxxxx0005 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$325k9%
FY202410$274k30%
FY20238$277k13%
FY20228$299k0%
FY20219$255k11%
FY202011$258k27%
FY20199$269k33%
FY20187$265k14%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$656kHuman Services$495kFood & Nutrition$454kEducation$302kHealth$300kYouth Development$139kReligion$70kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Hess Wm G & Myrtle Charitable Tr Xxxxx0005 by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Forgotten Harvest Inc$454,00090%
Oakland Literacy Council$281,901915%
Open Door Outreach Center Inc$145,00055%
Judson Center Inc$105,10040%
Oakland Family Services$70,00040%
Special Olympics Michigan Inc$60,00060%
Guest House Inc$49,71230%
The New Day Foundation for Families$25,00020%
South Oakland Shelter$25,00011%
Presbyterian Villages of Michigan$15,00010%
St Owen Parish Bloomfield Hills$10,4002n/a
The Furniture Resource Center$10,00011%
Academy of the Sacred Heart$10,0001n/a
Literature Circle Society$9,83419%
Song and Spirit Inc$9,00014%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hess Wm G & Myrtle Charitable Tr Xxxxx0005 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetForgotten Harvest Inc: $454,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOakland Literacy Council: $281,901 over 9y, 15% of budgetOpen Door Outreach Center Inc: $145,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetJudson Center Inc: $105,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOakland Family Services: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Olympics Michigan Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGuest House Inc: $49,712 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe New Day Foundation for Families: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSouth Oakland Shelter: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPresbyterian Villages of Michigan: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Furniture Resource Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLiterature Circle Society: $9,834 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetSong and Spirit Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · Kronlund Foundation Charitable Trust · The Village Club Foundation · Lula C Wilson Trust Xxxxx3003 · Aa Van Elslander Foundation · The Carls Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Hess Wm G & Myrtle Charitable Tr Xxxxx0005

How much does Hess Wm G & Myrtle Charitable Tr Xxxxx0005 give?
Hess Wm G & Myrtle Charitable Tr Xxxxx0005 reported 11 grants totaling $325,046 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Hess Wm G & Myrtle Charitable Tr Xxxxx0005 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (27%), Human Services (20%), Food & Nutrition (18%).
Who are Hess Wm G & Myrtle Charitable Tr Xxxxx0005's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Forgotten Harvest Inc ($454k), Oakland Literacy Council ($282k), Open Door Outreach Center Inc ($145k).
Does Hess Wm G & Myrtle Charitable Tr Xxxxx0005 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hess Wm G & Myrtle Charitable Tr Xxxxx0005 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hess Wm G & Myrtle Charitable Tr Xxxxx0005?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial.
Where is Hess Wm G & Myrtle Charitable Tr Xxxxx0005 based?
Hess Wm G & Myrtle Charitable Tr Xxxxx0005 is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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