· Private foundation
Louis and Helen Padnos Foundation
Its FY2026 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 · FY2026
- Under $10k8 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GRAND RAPIDS | $160,000 |
| ODC NETWORK | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FUND OF MICHIGAN | $36,000 |
| SECURE COMMUNITIES NETWORK INC | $36,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE | $25,000 |
| DWELLING PLACE OF GRAND RAPIDS INC | $25,000 |
| READY FOR SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WEST MICHIGAN | $20,000 |
| SAUGATUCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC | $12,500 |
| ARBOR CIRCLE | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLLAND | $10,000 |
| FREDERICK MEIJER GARDENS | $10,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
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 (FY19–26, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% 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
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 +33% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2026, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE4× · 2021–2026 · $67k · revenue +103%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN3× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +39%- TATHE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION6× · 2019–2026 · $48k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- HCHolland Community Foundationone grant, 2020 · $50k
- TETEMPLE EMANU-ELone grant, 2019 · $50k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HOLLAND-ZEELANDone grant, 2025 · $50k
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 promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
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.…
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
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.…
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
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…
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 59 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GRAND RAPIDS ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ODC NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE ARBOR CIRCLE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds READY FOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FUND OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds DWELLING PLACE OF GRAND RAPIDS NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOLLAND ↗
- Who funds JOHN BALL ZOO ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Holland Community Aquatic Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAUGATUCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds DA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S ↗
- Who funds YWCA WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
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: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Howard Miller Foundation · Frey Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · Greater Ottawa County United Way · Larry and Karen Mulder Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Louis and Helen Padnos Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis and Helen Padnos Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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