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Hugh & Constance Mehaffie Family Foundation at a glance

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Hugh & Constance Mehaffie 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.

$98k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Animals$88kHealth$81kEnvironment$72kFood & Nutrition$72kArts & Culture$53kHuman Services$45kHousing & Shelter$32kEducation$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$14,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD GATHERERS$14,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$14,000
GARRETT'S SPACE$14,000
SAN JUAN CITIZENS ALLIANCE$14,000
KALAMAZOO ANIMAL RESCUE$14,000
SHOSHONE PET RESCUE$14,000
SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY$14,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SHOSHONE PET RESCUE: $14k → 13%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5k → 12%GARRETT'S SPACE: $18k → 14%SAN JUAN CITIZENS ALLIANCE: $18k → 12%THE COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%SHOSHONE PET RESCUE: $10k → 13%PARK CLUB HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%GARRETT'S SPACE: $14k → 14%SAN JUAN CITIZENS ALLIANCE: $14k → 12%THE COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%SHOSHONE PET RESCUE: $10k → 13%KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES: $15k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - DEPRESSION CENTER: $5k → 14%SHOSHONE COUNTY SAVE: $10k → 13%KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES: $15k → 12%FOOD GATHERERS: $18k → 14%SHOSHONE PET RESCUE: $5k → 13%SALVATION ARMY: $10k → 12%FOOD GATHERERS: $14k → 14%SHOSHONE COUNTY SAVE: $5k → 13%SALVATION ARMY: $10k → 12%SAFEHOUSE CENTER: $5k → 14%SALVATION ARMY: $10k → 12%SAFEHOUSE CENTER: $5k → 14%KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES: $10k → 12%SAFEHOUSE CENTER: $5k → 14%KALAMAZOO NATURE CENTER: $15k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - ATHLETICS: $10k → 14%KALAMAZOO NATURE CENTER: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - DEPRESSION CENTER: $5k → 14%SPCA OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $10k → 12%CORNER HEALTH CENTER: $5k → 14%KALAMAZOO NATURE CENTER: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - DEPRESSION CENTER: $5k → 14%SPCA OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $10k → 12%CORNER HEALTH CENTER: $5k → 14%SPCA OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $5k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - ATHLETICS: $5k → 14%GREENPEACE: $5k → 12%CORNER HEALTH CENTER: $5k → 14%KALAMAZOO ANIMAL RESCUE: $14k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - RADIO: $18k → 14%KALAMAZOO ANIMAL RESCUE: $10k → 12%SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $18k → 14%SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $14k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $14k → 14%DAYCROFT MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $5k → 14%DAYCROFT MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$436k · 17 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against -42% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
4

Total granted

$436k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
-42%

Still filing today

59%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KL
    KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $40k · revenue +33%
  • KN
    Kalamazoo Nature Center
    3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +164%
  • FG
    FOOD GATHERERS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $32k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - RADIO
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
  • PC
    PARK CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -42%
  • G
    GREENPEACE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Kalamazoo County Humane Society

The mission of the kalamazoo humane society is to nuture the wellbeing of animals and people in our communities.

Animals
2
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
3
Humane Society of South Central Mi

Animal shelter - provide a safe haven for animals without homes.

Animals
4
Calhoun County Animal Center Inc

To retrieve, care for, shelter and adopt out cats and dogs in calhoun county michigan

Animals
5
Kalamazoo County Parks and Recreation Development Foundation

Long term development, stewardship, and protection of michigan parks located in kalamazoo county.

Recreation & Sports
6
Kitty City Kansas Rescue Incorporated

Find homes for homeless cats through adoptions

Animals
7
Kalamazoo College

The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…

Education
8
Kalamazoo Community Foundation Real Estate Holdings Inc

Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation

Philanthropy
9
Kalamazoo Housing Advocates

Kalamazoo housing advocate is a nonprofit working to break the cycle of homelessness in kalamazoo county.

Human Services
10
Humane Society of Southwestern Michigan

Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.

Animals
11
Leelanau Conservancy

To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.

Environment
12
Cheboygan County Humane Soc

The organization is dedicated to promoting kindness to animals; the prevention of cruelty to animals; the extension of humane education to the community; the encouragement of spay and neuter programs and responsible pet ownership.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHOSHONE PET RESCUE INC: $39,000 · OtherSHOSHONE PET RESCUE INCFOOD GATHERERS: $32,000 · OtherFOOD GATHERERSSALVATION ARMY: $30,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - RADIO: $18,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - RADIOREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $15,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANSAFEHOUSE CENTER: $15,000 · OtherSAFEHOUSE CENTERUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - DEPRESSION CENTER: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - DEPRESSION CENTERDAYCROFT MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherDAYCROFT MONTESSORI SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCORNER HEALTH CENTER: $15,000 · OtherCORNER HEALTH CENTERUniversity of Michigan: $14,000 · OtherUniversity of Michigan+2 more: $10,000 · OtherKalamazoo Nature Center: $35,000 · EnvironmentKalamazoo Natur…San Juan Citizens Alliance: $32,000 · EnvironmentSan Juan Citize…SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN: $25,000 · AnimalsSOCIETY FOR…KALAMAZOO ANIMAL RESCUE: $24,000 · AnimalsKALAMAZOO A…KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionKALAMAZOO…Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePARK CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $32,000 · Housing & ShelterGARRETT'S SPACE: $32,000 · Health
Other$233,000Environment$67,000Animals$49,000Food & Nutrition$40,000Arts & Culture$35,000Housing & Shelter$32,000Health$32,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKalamazoo Nature Center: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD GATHERERS: $32,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSan Juan Citizens Alliance: $32,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $32,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGARRETT'S SPACE: $32,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN: $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetKALAMAZOO ANIMAL RESCUE: $24,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCORNER HEALTH CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $14,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPARK CLUB HISTORIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budget
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 KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
  • Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
  • Who funds San Juan Citizens Alliance ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds GARRETT'S SPACE ↗
  • Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds CORNER HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds PARK CLUB HISTORIC 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.

Kalamazoo Community F…United Way of South C…The Pfizer Foundation…WK Kellogg FoundationNetwork for GoodVanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hugh & Constance Mehaffie Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hugh & Constance Mehaffie Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Hugh & Constance Mehaffie Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hugh & Constance Mehaffie Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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