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May Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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May Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$378k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$574kEducation$348kEnvironment$321kHealth$261kYouth Development$202kArts & Culture$141kRecreation & Sports$110kReligion$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $258k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROBERT W MONK BOTANICAL GARDENS$65,000
MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES$50,000
BRENT'S PLACE$40,000
RED CABOOSE CHILD CARE INC$40,000
ONCE UPON A ROOM$30,000
MENTORING AFFECTS YOUTH$28,000
LITTLE FOREST SCHOOL INC$25,000
826 MICHIGAN$25,000
FAITH'S LODGE$20,000
SCHOLL COMMUNITY IMPACT GROUP$15,000
PIKES PEAK ORANGE CRUSH$15,000
CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
PROJECT 127$10,000
LAKELAND SCHOOL SUPPLIES$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%SCHOLL COMMUNITY IMPACT GROUP: $20k → 10%YMCA OF THE NORTHWOODS: $40k → 12%SCHOLL COMMUNITY IMPACT GROUP: $15k → 10%YMCA OF THE NORTHWOODS: $10k → 12%SCHOLL COMMUNITY IMPACT GROUP: $15k → 10%FAITH'S LODGE: $20k → 11%OUR HOUSE: $10k → 14%FAITH'S LODGE: $10k → 11%OUR HOUSE: $10k → 14%FAITH'S LODGE: $10k → 11%OUR HOUSE: $5k → 14%FAITH'S LODGE: $10k → 11%FAITH'S LODGE: $10k → 11%PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
CA
CO
NE
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 31 repeat orgs$243k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
16

Total granted

$1.9M
$153k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+16%

Still filing today

61%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RW
    ROBERT W MONK GARDENS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $246k · revenue ×12
  • NL
    NORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $106k · revenue +100%
  • 826 MICHIGAN INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $103k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • LG
    LAURITZEN GARDENS
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • SI
    SHENANDOAH IOWA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -18%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -93%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Wisconsin Youth Company Inc

Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.

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2
Christian Community Child Center Inc

We believe that all children are special & unique. Our goal is to create a safe, loving environment where children can learn & be nurtured. We offer children 6 wks to 10 yrs a program emphasizing a child's total development: physical,…

Human Services
3
Rainbow Childcare of Monroe Inc

Rainbow Childcare Inc. is a not for profit child care agency committed to providing quality, affordable, learning-oriented child care to the greater Green County community. We serve the children enrolled at Rainbow Childcare, Inc. and…

Human Services
4
Woodlands School Inc

Woodlands school, inc. is a public charter non-profit school authorized through the univerity of wisconsin-milwaukee using a character-based education approach to prepare children for lifelong learning in a rapidly changing world.

Education
5
Community Action Network

Community action network partners with children, youth and families from under-resourced washtenaw county michigan neighborhoods to create better futures for themselves, and improve the communities in which they live.

Human Services
6
Door County Community Child Development Center Inc

It is our mission to provide quality, developmentally appropriate experiences to the children and families of door county.

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7
Children's Community School Inc

Our mission is to provide a nurturing and challenging montessori preschool environment for children ages 18 months to 6 years old in which children explore the world and their place in it through hands-on learning experiences and positive…

Human Services
8
Good News Childrens Center Inc

Good news children's center provides quality childcare to southeast minnesota families, in a safe environment that promotes life-long learning through developmentally appropriate and active learning curriculum.

Human Services
9
Cardinal Child Development Center

Non-profit learning center providing safe, affordable, high- quality, and reliable child care, for all young children in randolph, nebraska and the surrounding area.

Human Services
10
Nebraska Youth Center

The center operates a group home for troubled youth, ages 12-18, in western nebraska.

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11
Lifeways of Wisconsin Inc

Operation of childcare centers based on the waldorf teaching method. nurturing children, families, caregivers and communities. lifeways welcomes children and families of any race, religion,

Human Services
12
Child & Family Services of Northwestern Michigan Inc

We strive to ensure the safety and well-being of children, youth, adults, and families in times of crisis, challenge, and life transition.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc; the most unlike its peers is Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RED CABOOSE CHILD CARE INC: $205,000 · OtherRED CABOOSE CHILD CARE INCMATRIX HUMAN SERVICES: $155,000 · OtherMATRIX HUMAN SERVICESMENTORING AFFECTS YOUTH: $141,000 · OtherMENTORING AFFECTS YOUTHCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $105,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL826 MICHIGAN INC: $102,500 · Other826 MICHIGAN INCROBERT W MONK BOTANICAL GARDENS: $65,000 · OtherMANITOWISH WATERS COMMUNITY CHURCH: $55,000 · OtherFRANK B KOLLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $54,000 · OtherPIKES PEAK ORANGE CRUSH: $46,000 · OtherPROJECT 1 27: $50,000 · Other+23 more: $346,838 · Other+23 moreROBERT W MONK GARDENS INC: $246,000 · EnvironmentROBERT W MON…CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Human ServicesCHILD LOS…Young Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men…SCHOLL COMMUNITY IMPACT GROUP INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesSCHOLL CO…OUR HOUSE: $25,000 · Human ServicesOUR HOUSE+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesGREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EducationNEBRASKA GOLF FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationCommittee For Catholic Secondary Education: $25,500 · EducationSHENANDOAH IOWA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationONCE UPON A ROOM INC: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentNeighborhood House Community Center Inc: $17,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,200 · Youth DevelopmentNORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $106,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBRENT ELEY FOUNDATION: $77,500 · Health
Other$1,325,338Environment$246,000Human Services$190,000Education$125,500Youth Development$108,700Arts & Culture$108,500Health$77,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROBERT W MONK GARDENS INC: $246,000 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetNORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $106,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budget826 MICHIGAN INC: $102,500 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetONCE UPON A ROOM INC: $90,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetBRENT ELEY FOUNDATION: $77,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD LOSS FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetPROJECT 1 27: $50,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSCHOLL COMMUNITY IMPACT GROUP INC: $50,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetGREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetDETROIT HIVES INC: $42,788 over 2y, 12% of budgetNEBRASKA GOLF FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetCommittee For Catholic Secondary Education: $25,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOUR HOUSE: $25,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSHENANDOAH IOWA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP JORN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNeighborhood House Community Center Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPeace Neighborhood Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD GATHERERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL WISCONSIN CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 6.0% of budget
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 ROBERT W MONK GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds 826 MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds ONCE UPON A ROOM INC ↗
  • Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT 1 27 ↗
  • Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLL COMMUNITY IMPACT GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT HIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Committee For Catholic Secondary Education ↗
  • Who funds OUR HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE FOREST SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SHENANDOAH IOWA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP JORN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood House Community Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN 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.

Community Foundation …Wisconsin Public Serv…Incrediblebank Founda…Green Bay Packers Fou…Baird Foundation IncClack Foundation IncDan Storey Foundation…Pukall Lumber Foundat…Bell Family Charitabl…Dudley Foundation IncJudd S Alexander Foun…Ba & Esther Greenheck…
Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin IncWI19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Clack Foundation Inc · Dan Storey Foundation Inc · Pukall Lumber Foundation Inc · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Dudley Foundation Inc · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization May Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from May Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to May Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to May Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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