· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of MEHNEY DAVID P & LINDA M FOUNDAT’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY20–24, $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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +7% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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 UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +42%
- MFMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +126%
- SHSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC3× · 2019–2023 · $20k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
- DUDAVENPORT UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +6%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AM NATL FDNone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
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,…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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,…
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…
Inspire individuals and organizations to invest in their community to improve the quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aquinas College and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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. 20 of the 39 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 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20 ↗
- Who funds Aquinas College ↗
- Who funds MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds EAST GRAND RAPIDS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Mehney David P & Linda M Foundat 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.
- Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc — 0% 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.