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Jennings Memorial Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$264k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
24
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$103,400
Organizations funded a year
24 to 29
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Jennings Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyOther
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 arriving25$264k24%
FY202424$233k8%
FY202324$257k13%
FY202229$279k31%
FY202126$219k65%
FY202027$194kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$569kReligion$246kFood & Nutrition$180kArts & Culture$134kHuman Services$90kHousing & Shelter$47kPublic Benefit$30kPhilanthropy$28kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
OH
CA
KY
VA
SC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan$68,82050%
Church$50,0001n/a
Montrose Baptist Church$35,4505n/a
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$22,50050%
Carriage Town Ministries$20,50050%
Mt Sinai Lutheran Church$15,5005n/a
Crossover Outreach$15,00051%
Shelter of Flint Inc$12,50030%
Montrose Wesleyan Church$12,5004n/a
Motherly Intercession$11,00031%
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All grantees of Jennings Memorial Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan$68,82050%
Church$50,0001n/a
Montrose Baptist Church$35,4505n/a
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$22,50050%
Carriage Town Ministries$20,50050%
Mt Sinai Lutheran Church$15,5005n/a
Crossover Outreach$15,00051%
Shelter of Flint Inc$12,50030%
Montrose Wesleyan Church$12,5004n/a
Motherly Intercession$11,00031%
Salvation Army$10,0001n/a
Leukemia Research Foundation$10,00010%
Genesee Area Focus Fund$5,00010%
Christian Faith Church$4,5001n/a
Shoes That Fit$4,50010%
Lamb of God Church$3,0001n/a
YWCA of Greater Flint$3,00010%
The Dictionary Project$1,34420%
Bellevue Veterans Club Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jennings Memorial Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $68,820 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCarriage Town Ministries: $20,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCrossover Outreach: $15,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetShelter of Flint Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMotherly Intercession: $11,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLeukemia Research Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGenesee Area Focus Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShoes That Fit: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA of Greater Flint: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Dictionary Project: $1,344 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBellevue Veterans Club Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 12.

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.

Charles Stewart Mott FoundationMI17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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How do I get to Jennings Memorial Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jennings Memorial 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.

About Jennings Memorial Foundation

How much does Jennings Memorial Foundation give?
Jennings Memorial Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $264,084 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Jennings Memorial Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Religion (17%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
Who are Jennings Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ($69k), Church ($50k), Montrose Baptist Church ($35k).
Does Jennings Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jennings Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jennings Memorial Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, The Mackey Foundation, Child Welfare Society of Flint.
Where is Jennings Memorial Foundation based?
Jennings Memorial Foundation is based in OH.

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 64 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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