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Mehney David P & Linda M Foundat at a glance

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Mehney David P & Linda M Foundat

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$197kHealth$78kCommunity Improvement$53kPhilanthropy$42kYouth Development$25kEnvironment$23kHuman Services$21kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$882k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20$50,000
GREATER GRAND RAPIDS CHAMBER$3,000
GVSU$2,500
AMERICAN LEGION POST 459$2,000
PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AIM TO INSPIRE: $3k → 11%AIM TO INSPIRE: $2k → 11%NORTH KENT CONNECT: $1k → 11%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.
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$445k · 24 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
10

Total granted

$445k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+6%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • DU
    DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +42%
  • SH
    SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $20k · revenue +61%
  • MF
    MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • DU
    DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +6%
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AM NATL FDN
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
Grand View University

Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.

Education
2
University of Rio Grande

The university of rio grande/ rio grande community college is america's unique private/public institution of higher education designed to provide learners the opportunity to attain a high-quality, high-value education. our personalized,…

Education
3
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
4
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
5
Grand Rapids Community College Foundation

It is the mission of the grcc foundation to secure and manage financial gifts to support and promote student, employee and community learning, enabling the college to fulfill its mission and vision.

Education
6
Kalamazoo College

The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…

Education
7
Calvin University

The mission of calvin university is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.

Education
8
Great Lakes Bible College

Great lakes christian college, an institution of higher education affiliated with christian churches/churches of christ, seeks to glorify god by preparing students to be servant-leaders in the church and world.

Education
9
Spring Arbor University

Spring arbor university is a community of learners distinguished by our lifelong involvement in the study and application of the liberal arts, total commitment to jesus christ as the perspective for learning and critical participation in…

Education
10
Rockford University

To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…

Education
11
College for Creative Studies

The college for creative studies nurtures the creativity that is vital to the enrichment of modern culture. the college educates visual artists and designers, knowledgeable in varied fields, who will be leaders in creative professions that…

Education
12
Grand Rapids Area Community Foundation

Inspire individuals and organizations to invest in their community to improve the quality of life.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aquinas College; the most unlike its peers is Grand Rapids Community College. 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

20 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. 20 of the 39 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
9/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRCC FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherGRCC FOUNDATIONCLARK FOUNDATION: $36,000 · OtherCLARK FOUNDATIONMARY BED FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherMARY BED FOUNDATIONAQUINAS COLLEGE FDN: $30,000 · OtherAQUINAS COLLEGE FDNIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCLARK HOME: $20,000 · OtherCLARK HOMEGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $13,000 · OtherGILDAS CLUB: $12,500 · OtherGVSU: $12,500 · OtherGRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY: $11,000 · Other+14 more: $66,270 · Other+14 moreDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT…Aquinas College: $20,000 · EducationAquinas CollegeEAST GRAND RAPIDS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationEAST GRAND RAPIDS SCHOOLS FO…DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationDAVENPORT UNIVERSITYBLANDFORD NATURE CENTER: $15,000 · EducationBLANDFORD NATURE CENTERCornerstone University: $10,000 · EducationCornerstone University+2 more: $6,000 · EducationGRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20: $50,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND ACT…MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL: $20,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER: $15,000 · HealthSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterELE'S PLACE INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM: $5,500 · Arts & CultureOpera Grand Rapids: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$306,270Education$146,000Philanthropy$50,000Health$35,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Youth Development$15,000Arts & Culture$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAquinas College: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST GRAND RAPIDS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELE'S PLACE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLANDFORD NATURE CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $13,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetCornerstone University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROWING ROOTS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMichigan Colleges Alliance: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAIM TO INSPIRE: $4,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetOpera Grand Rapids: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20 ↗
  • Who funds Aquinas College ↗
  • Who funds EAST GRAND RAPIDS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Cornerstone University ↗
  • Who funds GROWING ROOTS ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Michigan Colleges Alliance ↗
  • Who funds AIM TO INSPIRE ↗
  • Who funds Opera Grand Rapids ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION NE POST 459 ↗
  • Who funds PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER ↗

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.

Grand Rapids Communit…Frey FoundationThe Meijer FoundationWolverine World Wide …The David and Carol V…THE PETER and JOAN SE…Steve & Amy Van Andel…Douglas & Maria Devos…Peter C & Emajean Coo…The Sebastian Foundat…Cdv5 FoundationDick and Betsy Devos …
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI27.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Wolverine World Wide Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family 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 Mehney David P & Linda M Foundat funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mehney David P & Linda M Foundat. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 39 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home