· Private foundation
Mary Thompson Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINGS HOME | $20,000 |
| POPE FRANCIS CENTER | $15,000 |
| THE HELM | $13,000 |
| RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE | $10,000 |
| DETROIT OPERA | $10,000 |
| LITTLE BROTHERS | $10,000 |
| LOURDES INC | $10,000 |
| IRONWOOD CARNEGIE LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| HANNAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| LORI'S HANDS INC | $10,000 |
| EVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION | $8,600 |
| MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC | $8,000 |
| ACCOUNTING AID SOCIETY | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $460k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% 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.
51 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 8 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, 88% 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
- WHWINGS HOME8× · 2018–2025 · $114k · revenue +24%
Accounting Aid Society8× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +127%
POPE FRANCIS CENTER7× · 2019–2025 · $91k · revenue +202%
Funded once
- AAALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $15k
- COCOMMUNITY OPPORTUNITY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $15k
- EHEVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGANone grant, 2019 · $14k · revenue -28%
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.
To provide housing and end of life care and support to terminally ill individuals.
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…
Creating healthy communities - together
It is the mission of the evangelical homes of michigan, a health and human service ministry related to the united church of christ, to provide health and housing servcies to persons who are elderly in a manner which respects their rights,…
To support and promote a means for maintaining a senior center in order to achieve specific goals, based on the needs and interests of older persons, those 50 and older except for those programs that receive state and federal funding which…
Our goal is to assist each person to remain as independent as possible. we wish to create an environment and atmosphere that is filled with vibrancy, pride, security and a sense of belonging.
Hospice care - wings of hope hospice and palliative care, inc. provides compassionate care in the later stages of life and support through the grief experience for individuals and families.
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
Jewish senior life of metropolitan detroit is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for older adults of the metropolitan detroit jewish community through the provision of personalized high quality programs and services that support…
Community & home supports, inc. was founded to help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we strive to fulfill our purpose by developing, leading, and participating in collaborative and innovative efforts that support…
To advocate for, educate, and assist our target populations. our services address the needs of many different people, but we continue to target our services to older adults and persons with disabilities.
We nurture a sense of community and enrich the lives of older adults, while embracing jewish values and celebrating life.
How this is measured
57 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. 57 of the 91 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 WINGS HOME ↗
- Who funds Accounting Aid Society ↗
- Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALPENA AREA SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds RESPITE VOLUNTEERS OF SHIAWASSEE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN GEORGE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds LOURDES INC ↗
- Who funds HANNAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION ↗
- Who funds YPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NEXT STEPS 4 SENIORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL HOMES OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK 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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · The Carls Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Helen L Kay Charitable Trust · Comerica Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary Thompson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Thompson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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