· Private foundation
Jennings Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTROSE BD OF EDUCATION | $103,400 |
| MONTROSE BAPTIST CHURCH | $23,450 |
| MONTROSE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $21,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGAN | $14,740 |
| MONTROSE GLOBAL METHODIST CHURCH | $13,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| MONTROSE FOOD PANTRY | $6,500 |
| NORTH END SOUP KITCHEN | $6,500 |
| MONTROSE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY | $5,000 |
| CARRIAGE TOWN MINISTRIES | $4,500 |
| FLINT EASTSIDE MISSION | $4,500 |
| SHELTER OF FLINT | $4,500 |
| SHOES THAT FIT | $4,500 |
| MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +21%
- CTCarriage Town Ministries5× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +38%
- COCROSSOVER OUTREACH5× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- CCHURCHone grant, 2022 · $50k
- FBFOOD BANK OF EASTERN MICHIGANone grant, 2021 · $17k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $14k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.
We provide furniture and home goods to families and individuals that financially qualify for our program. our current focus area is harford county, maryland but are happy to give referrals to resources in other counties when possible.
Feeding children everywhere is committed to providing healthy meals to those in need. we are committed to sustainability. creating a hunger-free world will be possible if we have an awareness of our impact on the world around us. we have…
To further the welfare of the jewish community
To support and benefit the community foundation of greater flint. the organization will address a wide variety of community needs in greater flint, and its immediate priority is to provide aid to those affected by the flint water crisis.
Working together to ensure everyone in our communities has the nutritious food they need every day.
We empower people on their journey to independence through the sale of donated goods, which supports employment programs and family services.
Provide food for individuals in need
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bellevue Veterans Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Mackey Foundation · Child Welfare Society of Flint · Nartel Family Foundation · The Hagerman Foundation · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Burroughs Memorial Trust · The Whiting Foundation · Anna Paulina Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Flint · Consumers Energy Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jennings Memorial Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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