· Private foundation
Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $326k
- $250k+1 grant · $435k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY | $435,000 |
| COPPER SHORES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $168,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN | $108,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER | $50,000 |
| MOXIEMOMS | $28,000 |
| BEANTOWN BABY DIAPER BANK | $25,000 |
| YMCA OF MARQUETTE COUNTY | $20,000 |
| CANTERBURY HOUSE | $20,000 |
| EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF N MI | $20,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MI | $15,000 |
| ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 67% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $226k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DUDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +1%
- VCVASSAR COLLEGE2× · 2020–2021 · $250k · revenue +43%
- WCWOMEN'S CENTER INC4× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- MAMARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -45%
- CLCARY LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $10k
- CTCEDAR TREEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +56%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Improving the health of the people in our communities by providing quality, compassionate care to everyone, every time.
Metro health's mission is to improve the health and well-being of our communities. to that end the organization believes the foundation of good health is based on excellent quality primary care. the organization is anchored by a 208-bed,…
The msu chm upper peninsula education corporation is a collaborative medical education corporation funded by the michigan state university college of human medicine and up health system marquette, dedicated to the medical education of…
The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…
The traverse bay children's advocacy is built upon a model of success used by children's advocacy centers nationwide, and customized through collaborative team input in our region. our mission speaks to protecting children by providing…
To preserve and promote maritime history
Social welfare and issue advocacy
Mission is to represent the interests and professional needs of psychiatric physicians in michigan while striving to ensure quality care for people with mental disorders and their families through promotion of education, research and…
To continuously improve the health of the communities we serve in the spirit of hope, compassion, respect and dignity.
We, mercy health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health partners is a member of mercy health and trinity health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Superior Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Moxiemoms. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COPPER SHORES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ROOM AT THE INN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEANTOWN BABY DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds MOXIEMOMS ↗
- Who funds TRILLIUM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR TREE ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR ARTS YOUTH THEATER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: West End Health Foundation · Phyllis & Max Reynolds Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Tourville Foundation · Frazier Fund Inc · Community Foundation of Marquette County · Superior Health Foundation · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc 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.
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
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.