· Private foundation
Joe D Pentecost Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $394k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $643k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MID MICHIGAN RECOVERY SERVICES INC | $200,000 |
| WAI-IAM INC | $178,000 |
| LANSING PROMISE | $115,000 |
| MSU BRESLIN AND CHAMPIONS EDGE | $100,000 |
| THE DAVIES PROJECT FOR MID MICHIGAN CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| AITCH FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| THE HOUSE OF PROMISE | $40,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC | $30,000 |
| CHILD & FAMILY CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| ENDEAVOR HOUSE MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| WOLDUMAR NATURE ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| MID-MICHIGAN TENNIS ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANSING | $15,000 |
| MID MICHIGAN TREATMENT COUTS | $15,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY -EMPOWERHER | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $420k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
66 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 13 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MRMID-MICHIGAN RECOVERY SERVICES INC4× · 2021–2025 · $627k · revenue +69%
- LPLansing Promise9× · 2017–2025 · $515k · revenue +373%
- I5IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $338k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- HCHOLY CROSS WOMEN'S BEHAVIORAL HEALTHone grant, 2018 · $250k
- LCLANSING COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $65k
- WWKARone grant, 2024 · $22k
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 provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
To act as a vehicle to provide access to organized systems of health care and improve the health status of individuals in the community.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
To ensure that policymakers prioritize the needs of the most challenged children from cradle to career.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
To work with parents, child care providers, businesses and the community to improve access to quality child care and early education so that every child enjoys safe, nurturing and inspiring care.
Ozone house provides holistic support and housing services that enhance the well-being and safety of young people through empowerment, advocacy, and connection.
Education of young people in the Montessori method
Children's services
How this is measured
42 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. 42 of the 92 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 Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State ↗
- Who funds MID-MICHIGAN RECOVERY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Lansing Promise ↗
- Who funds THE AITCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAI-IAM INC ↗
- Who funds IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The House of Promise ↗
- Who funds Child and Family Charities ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANSING ↗
- Who funds GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE DAVIES PROJECT FOR MID MICHIGAN CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHFIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds Capital Area United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds Joe's Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties ↗
- Who funds CASA THE VOICE FOR CLINTON COUNTYS CHILDREN ↗
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: Capital Region Community Foundation · Lansing Economic Area Partnership · Lansing Rotary Foundation · Re Olds Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · Jackson Charitable Foundation Inc · Desk Drawer Fund · United Way of South Central Michigan · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Louis Berkowitz Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joe D Pentecost Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joe D Pentecost Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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