· Private foundation
John a & Marlene L Boll Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT DANCE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH | $20,000 |
| THE HELM CENTER AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER | $20,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE MEMORIAL CHURCH | $15,000 |
| OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| JT MESTDAGH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE SOUTH HOCKEY | $10,000 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| GROSS POINTE SHORES IMPROVEMENT | $10,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE THEATRE | $7,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CHARITY AT ADIOS | $5,000 |
| HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY19–24, $551k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of John a & Marlene L Boll Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 48% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 44%.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
60 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 10 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OROCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue ×19
- TJTHE JT MESTDAGH FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +37%
- HPHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +73%
Funded once
YMCA of Metropolitan Detroitone grant, 2021 · $514k · revenue +23%- SCSpringHill Campsone grant, 2021 · $101k · revenue +2%
- THTHE HELM CENTER AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTERSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENSone grant, 2019 · $30k
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 restore, preserve, maintain, protect, and repair the detroit yacht club clubhouse, a structure on the national register of historic places. to provide access at designated times for education and public groups to tour the structure with…
To advance pharmacy through education, practice innovation and research focused on patient care, for the improvement and promotion of public health and public education.
Foundation for detroit's future (fdf) shall work to lessen the burdens of government, combat community deterioration, and improve the quality of life of the general public in and around the city of detroit through, among other things,…
To restore, repair, and refurbish the state-owned lansing and mackinac island official residences of the governor of the state of michigan; to restore, repair, and refurbish other buildings and developments of historical significance to…
For all state residents, diverse civic stakeholders and philanthropy, the center for michigan (the center) and its nonprofit newsrooms - bridge michigan and bridgedetroit - make michigan better through high-quality, nonpartisan journalism…
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The primary role of the grand rapids public museum foundation is fundraising for the grand rapids public museum, but it also has overall responsibility for the current and long-term viability of the organization.
Supports the operations and programs of the grand rapids symphony society by sustaining the orchestra's concert, music education and accessibility programming across west michigan.
To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.
DPSFs mission is to create and enhance educational opportunities for over 50,000 Detroit Public Schools Community Districts students, families and educators. DPS Foundation was organized to ensure DPS, now DPSCD student and families to…
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 100 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 OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SpringHill Camps ↗
- Who funds THE JT MESTDAGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE YOUTH NAUTICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
- Who funds DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CURE MULTIPLE MYELOMA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FORAFRIKA USA ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Center for the Arts ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Maibach Family Foundation · George and Ruth Harms Foundation · The John H and Katherine J Weiland Foundation Inc · The Holmes Family Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Allan & Warren Shelden Fund · The Hajim Family Foundation · William & Martha Ford Fund · Henry Ford Southeast Michigan Community Health · Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John a & Marlene L Boll Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John a & Marlene L Boll Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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