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Mary Free Bed Guild Fund

The primary mission of the Mary Free Bed Fund is to support the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes and missions of the Mary Free Bed Guild and its subsidiaries.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$437k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$7.4MHuman Services$421kRecreation & Sports$332kArts & Culture$123kPhilanthropy$84kAnimals$24kPublic Benefit$10k
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $788,682 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,142,283 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $353,601 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $229k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $106k
  • $250k+1 grant · $437k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital$437,336
MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$105,503
RENEW MOBILITY$45,000
INDIAN TRAILS CAMP$31,000
MARY FREE BED ORTHOTICS AND PROSTHETICS$17,406
EQUESTRIAN CENTER$17,000
GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM$15,000
MS WHEELCHAIR AMERICA$15,000
DISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY$15,000
ONCE UPON A ROOM$15,000
FANS OF VALLEY FIELD$12,500
PAWS WITH A CAUSE$12,500
ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED$12,500
CAMP SUNSHINE$10,937
ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $373k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $13k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $13k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $10k → 10%WEDGEWOOD CHRISTIAN: $14k → 11%METRO HEALTH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%RENEW MOBILITY: $45k → 11%ALTERNATIVES IN MOTION: $30k → 11%ALTERNATIVES IN MOTION: $30k → 11%ALTERNATIVES IN MOTION: $26k → 11%ALTERNATIVES IN MOTION: $25k → 11%ALTERNATIVES IN MOTION: $25k → 11%ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $25k → 11%ALTERNATIVES IN MOTION: $20k → 11%ALTERNATIVES IN MOTION: $20k → 11%ALTERNATIVES IN MOTION: $15k → 11%ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $13k → 11%ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $10k → 11%ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $10k → 11%ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $10k → 11%ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $8k → 11%ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $8k → 11%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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.2M · 21 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
15

Total granted

$8.2M
$153k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

86%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MF
    MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.9M · revenue +126%
  • MF
    MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $528k · revenue ×21
  • MF
    MARY FREE BED ORTHOTICS AND PROSTHETICS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $448k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • HO
    HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue -11%
  • JB
    JOHN BALL ZOOgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $24k · revenue +55%
  • WC
    WEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES
    one grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue -3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
2
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
3
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
4
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
5
Mymichigan Medical Center Alma

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
6
Michigan Sports Alliance

To encourage michigan residents of all ages and abilities to live active and healthy lifestyles

Recreation & Sports
7
Mymichigan Medical Center Saginaw

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
8
Trinity Health - Michigan

We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.

Health
9
Mymichigan Medical Center Gladwin

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
10
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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11
Mymichigan Medical Center Clare

Creating healthy communities - together

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12
Michigan State Medical Society Foundation

To advance the field of health for the public good.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Grand Rapids Symphony Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Security & Nutrition S…Christian Mission SupportGrand Rapids Community Deve…Mental Health & Wellness Su…Kent County Community Servi…Performing Arts Organizatio…Health Systems and Foundati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr13%6%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr17%12%20–35yr15%32%35–55yr13%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%5%20–35yr15%82%35–55yr13%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
10%
486/4,806

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

34 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. 34 of the 39 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
18/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL — $5,875,545 · HealthMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITALMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $527,787 · HealthMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+9 more — $387,649 · Health+9 moreMARY FREE BED ORTHOTICS AND PROSTHETICS — $448,134 · OtherMARY FREE …FIFTH THIRD BANK — $82,745 · OtherFIFTH THIR…RIVERBANK EVENTS AND MEDIA LLC — $65,831 · OtherRIVERBANK …RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES WESTERN MICHIGAN — $53,250 · OtherRONALD MCD…MS WHEELCHAIR AMERICA — $42,500 · OtherMS WHEELCH…+7 more — $84,556 · Other+7 moreRENEW MOBILITY — $236,000 · Human ServicesARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER — $82,500 · Human ServicesPaws With A Cause — $35,000 · Human ServicesWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES — $14,200 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesINDIAN TRAILS CAMP — $187,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC — $16,790 · Recreation & SportsWEST MICHIGAN SPORTS COMMISSION — $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $7,500 · Recreation & SportsDISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY — $140,000 · PhilanthropyHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $27,500 · PhilanthropyARTS IN MOTION STUDIO WEST MICHIGAN — $30,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $26,200 · Arts & CultureGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM — $15,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN MICHIGAN SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN BALL ZOO — $23,500 · Animals
Health$6,790,981Other$777,016Human Services$372,700Recreation & Sports$226,290Philanthropy$167,500Arts & Culture$76,200Animals$23,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL — $5,875,545 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $527,787 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetMARY FREE BED ORTHOTICS AND PROSTHETICS — $448,134 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetRENEW MOBILITY — $236,000 over 9y, 16% of budgetINDIAN TRAILS CAMP — $187,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetEquest Center for Therapeutic Riding Inc — $162,000 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetDISABILITY ADVOCATES OF KENT COUNTY — $140,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCOVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $99,999 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER — $82,500 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetSPARROW FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES WESTERN MICHIGAN — $53,250 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetMS WHEELCHAIR AMERICA — $42,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetPaws With A Cause — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $32,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetARTS IN MOTION STUDIO WEST MICHIGAN — $30,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $27,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $26,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN BALL ZOO — $23,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC — $16,790 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN SPORTS COMMISSION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEDGWOOD CHRISTIAN SERVICES — $14,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMICHIGAN WOMENS STUDIES ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetWest Michigan Community Tennis Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN INC — $7,150 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER — $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAINT MARY'S FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDISART — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

Grand Rapids Communit…Peter C & Emajean Coo…Frey FoundationThe Meijer FoundationDouglas & Maria Devos…THE PETER and JOAN SE…The David and Carol V…Steve & Amy Van Andel…Cdv5 FoundationUfp Industries Founda…The Korff FoundationPerrigo Company Chari…
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI31.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Ufp Industries Foundation · The Korff Foundation · Perrigo Company Charitable 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 Mary Free Bed Guild Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 39 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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