· Private foundation
Hitchens Family Foundation
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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS | $95,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CHURCH | $40,000 |
| LELAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $40,000 |
| TRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC | $35,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| PINE REST FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF NW MICHIGAN | $20,000 |
| SANTIAGO PANAMA MISSION ADVENTURE | $10,000 |
| ARCHANGEL GABRIEL GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING CHURCH | $5,264 |
| ST FRANCIS CHURCH | $5,264 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH | $5,264 |
| ST WENCESLAUS CHURCH | $5,263 |
| LELAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CEDERVILLE MUSIC BOOSTER CLUB | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those 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.
31 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +66%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +69%
- CFCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- LTLELAND TOWNSHIP LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
- BLBruces Legacy Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +138%
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.
To advance pharmacy through education, practice innovation and research focused on patient care, for the improvement and promotion of public health and public education.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
To support funding of healthcare services for residents of mackinac island.
To promote cooperative medical services throughout marquette county and the upper peninsula of michigan that would provide a continuum of care for qualifying, uninsured, and/or under-insured persons.
The organization's purpose is to support mackinac straits health system in order to improve the health status of the communities it serves.
We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…
To provide financial assistance to individuals and institutions for educational and scientific purposes in order to advance science to benefit the health and welfare of animals.
The Agency is licensed by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services as a full-service adoption and foster care agency for families located in northern Michigan.
The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.
A provider of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) which is a community-based, long-term care delivery program that provides comprehensive, coordinated, managed care to eligible participants.
Our mission is to provide necessary, compassionate healthcare to people in our community.
To advance the well-being of michigan residents through the promotion of sound public policies and responsible legislation. the purpose of these activities is to promote policies that strengthen the michigan health care system.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 45 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.
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds PINE REST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTIAGO PANAMA MISSION ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds MUNSON MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FATHER FRED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU TOWNSHIP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · The John and Matilda Shumsky Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · The Broad Family Foundation · Oleson Foundation · The Carls Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hitchens Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hitchens Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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