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Macchia Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of MACCHIA FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $130k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$900k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPRING ARBOR UNIVERSITY$10,000
AWARE INC$8,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$6,750
WHEELCHAIRS 4 KIDS$6,000
DAVID LAWRENCE CENTER$5,000
ISAIAH'S HUB$5,000
SHOP RAT FOUNDATION$5,000
MYPLACE JACKSON$5,000
FLORIDA GOLF COAST UNIVERSITY$5,000
HOPE KITCHEN$5,000
ST MATTHEW'S HOUSE$5,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF JACKSON$5,000
FREEDOM WATERS FOUNDATION$5,000
LUMEN CHRISTI$5,000
JACKSON SCHOOL OF ARTS$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAGGIE'S PLACE: $3k → 11%WHEELCHAIRS 4 KIDS: $6k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF JACKSON: $5k → 13%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $3k → 13%AWARE INC: $8k → 13%COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON: $3k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Harbor House of Jackson Inc

Our mission remains to offer hope to adults by providing an effective continuum of high quality, valuable, and compassionate behavioral health treatment services.

Health
2
Jackson Community Food Pantry

JACKSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY will provide canned, boxed, fresh and frozen food to all who come to our door, without judgement or barrier.

Food & Nutrition
3
Jackson Resource Center

To be a multifaceted housing organization devoted to catalyzing intentional on and off site collaborative partnerships that reduces homelessness and creates sustainable communities through affordable quality housing continued education job…

Education
4
Jackson County Casa

Casa is a unique non-profit helping abused and neglected children in the jackson county family court system. our team of trained volunteers,staff case supervisors, and staff attorneys allow each child to be represented in a court of law…

Civil Rights
5
Home Again St Johns Inc

Coordinate providers, government, individuals, community and faith based organizations to resolve homelessness issues in St. Johns County. Providing meals in street outreach to homeless individuals.

Human Services
6
Jackson Community Ambulance

The mission of jackson community ambulance is to provide high-quality out-of-hospital care and transportation services to the communities we serve.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Josephs Home

Joseph and Mary's Home, a ministry of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, provides a nurturing caring environment for both men and women without resources who have acute medical needs helping them heal and achieve independence.

Human Services
8
Michigan Christian Home

The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…

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9
Homebound Meals Inc

The Organization's mission is to assist shut-ins, usually the elderly, by delivering hot, nutritious and low-cost meals to them in their homes.

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10
St Johns Community Center

to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit

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11
Friends Sharing Food Inc

Help reduce hunger in jackson county. our recipients are treated with compassion, dignity and respect.

Food & Nutrition
12
House of Compassion

To provide food and shelter for the low income and homeless.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compassionate Ministries of Jackson County and the most unlike its peers is Angels Touch Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%9%<5yr15%9%5–10yr21%9%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr10%17%35–55yr12%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%9%<5yr15%4%5–10yr21%10%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr10%21%35–55yr12%26%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
13%
721/5,537

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
5/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VARIOUS GRANTS DONATIONS — $548,082 · OtherVARIOUS GRANTS DONATIONS+19 more — $70,250 · Other+19 moreAware Inc — $8,000 · Human ServicesWheelchairs 4 Kids Inc — $6,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of Jackson — $5,000 · Human ServicesMAGGIE'S PLACE INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON COUNTY — $3,000 · Human ServicesJOHN GEORGE HOME INC — $2,500 · Human ServicesSpring Arbor University — $10,000 · EducationTHE SHOP RAT FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · EducationFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · EducationST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterJackson Interfaith Shelter — $3,000 · Housing & ShelterFreedom Waters Foundation Inc — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsHOPE KITCHEN — $5,000 · EmploymentSCHOOL LUNCH MATTERS INC — $3,000 · Food & NutritionOUR DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY INCORPORATED — $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$618,332Human Services$27,500Education$17,000Housing & Shelter$8,000Recreation & Sports$7,000Employment$5,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSpring Arbor University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAware Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWheelchairs 4 Kids Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom Waters Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCatholic Charities of Jackson — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE KITCHEN — $5,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetJACKSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASCADES HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON COUNTY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJackson Interfaith Shelter — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL LUNCH MATTERS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY INCORPORATED — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jackson Community Fou…Consumers Energy Foun…Phil & Pat Willis Fou…The Alvin L Glick Fou…Lavery FoundationJohn George Jr Paragr…The Hurst FoundationMelling Family Founda…The L H Field Family …Weatherwax FoundationSpeckhard-Knight Char…Samuel Higby Camp Fou…
Jackson Community FoundationMI26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jackson Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Phil & Pat Willis Foundation · The Alvin L Glick Foundation · Lavery Foundation · John George Jr Paragraph X Trust · The Hurst Foundation · Melling Family Foundation · The L H Field Family Foundation · Weatherwax Foundation · Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation · Samuel Higby Camp Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Macchia Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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