· Private foundation
Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CANTERBURY HOUSE | $20,000 |
| YMCA OF MARQUETTE COUNTY | $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 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 25% of Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 67%.
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 +15% since the first grant, against -18% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +72%
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 27 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Me Davenport Fund a Private Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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