· Private foundation
Louis M Dexter Memorial Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ICCF FAMILY HAVEN | $3,000 |
| CALVIN COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| AQUINAS COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER | $3,000 |
| KIDS' FOOD BASKET | $2,900 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN A | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| GILDA'S CLUB WORLDWIDE | $2,070 |
| EQUEST CENTER FOR THERAPUTIC RIDING | $2,000 |
| COMPREHENSIVE THERAPY CEN | $2,000 |
| HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| ASSOC FOR THE BLIND & VISUALLY IMP | $1,500 |
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, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
21 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +38%
- CUCALVIN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +6%
- HOHospice of Michigan Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2025 · $2k
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.
The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…
The mission of madonna university, a catholic and franciscan institution of higher learning, is to instill in its students christain humanistic values, intellectual inquiry, a respect for university and a committment to serving others…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
To provide a business education that equips individuals to deliver superior service to employers and their communities.
The mission of the michigan state university college of law is to provide a rigorous educational program which prepares a diverse community of students to be national and international leaders in private legal practice, business and…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 23 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Aquinas College ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE THERAPY CENTER ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds PORTER HILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Equest Center for Therapeutic Riding Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ESME ↗
- Who funds MACKENZIE'S ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · The Korff Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Frey Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Louis M Dexter Memorial Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis M Dexter Memorial Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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