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Mary I McLeod 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HELM MEALS ON WHEELS | $18,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE MEMORIAL CHURCH | $18,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MOVEMENT OF FLORIDA | $13,500 |
| GROSSE POINTE THEATER | $12,500 |
| MERCY HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SHAW FESTIVAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY | $10,000 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,500 |
| GROSSE POINTE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| SAY DETROIT | $8,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $6,250 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB | $6,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE WAR MEMORIAL | $6,000 |
| REGINA HIGH SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN | $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 (FY21–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GPGROSSE POINTE THEATRE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +64%
- GPGROSSE POINTE ANIMAL ADOPTION SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +384%
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY3× · 2023–2025 · $27k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- SFSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue +33%
- THTHE HELMone grant, 2020 · $3k
- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 69 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 GROSSE POINTE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE ANIMAL ADOPTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB ↗
- Who funds SAY DETROIT ↗
- Who funds SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE ARTISTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds TED LINDSAY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Doris J & Donald L Duchene Foundation C/O David Findling · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · S Gary Spicer Sr Foundation · Joanne Nicolay Foundation · William & Martha Ford Fund · Dolores and Paul Lavins Foundation · Alice Kales Hartwick Foundation · Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation · Lynn & Paul Alandt Foundation · McGregor Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary I McLeod Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary I McLeod Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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