· Private foundation
Macatawa 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, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| GREAT HEARTS ACADEMIES | $20,000 |
| ICIVICS INC | $20,000 |
| LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT (POGO) | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $17,500 |
| HUDSON INSTITUTE | $17,500 |
| MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH | $17,500 |
| GOLDWATER INSTITUTE | $17,500 |
| CREW | $15,000 |
| MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER | $15,000 |
| EDCHOICE INC | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 80% of its 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
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 peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The American-German Institute is a center for policy research and scholarship dedicated to the most important political, economic, and security issues confronting Germany and the United States in the global arena. AGI anticipates…
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.
The r street institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy research organization ("think tank"). our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. (continued on…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 17 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 ICIVICS INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds GREATHEARTS ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Macatawa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Macatawa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
How this is measured
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