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Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$919k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$435,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 13
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$21M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$919k38%
FY202411$875k27%
FY202313$767k31%
FY20229$754k44%
FY20218$925k50%
FY20206$337kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$3.2MHealth$614kHuman Services$265kFood & Nutrition$157kHousing & Shelter$113kArts & Culture$112kPhilanthropy$100kRecreation & Sports$60kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Davenport University$2,846,35861%
Vassar College$250,00020%
Women's Center Inc$175,00043%
Copper Shores Community Health Foundation$168,0001n/a
Feeding America West Michigan$148,00040%
Room at the Inn$112,500411%
Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc$85,00020%
Superior Health Foundation$69,50041%
Marquette Area Public Schools Education Foundation$50,00017%
Beantown Baby Diaper Bank$30,000212%
Moxiemoms$28,000120%
Trillium House Inc$21,66823%
St Marks Episcopal Church$10,0001n/a
Cedar Tree$10,000114%
Superior Arts Youth Theater$5,50013%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($567k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDavenport University: $2,846,358 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetVassar College: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Center Inc: $175,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetFeeding America West Michigan: $148,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRoom at the Inn: $112,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetPlanned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSuperior Health Foundation: $69,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMarquette Area Public Schools Education Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetBeantown Baby Diaper Bank: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMoxiemoms: $28,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTrillium House Inc: $21,668 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCedar Tree: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSuperior Arts Youth Theater: $5,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

West End Health FoundationMI20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc

How much does Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc give?
Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $919,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (69%), Health (13%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Davenport University ($2.8M), Vassar College ($250k), Women's Center Inc ($175k).
Does Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include West End Health Foundation, Phyllis & Max Reynolds Foundation, Incrediblebank Foundation Inc.
Where is Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc based?
Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc is based in MI.

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 27 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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