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Michelmann Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD SAMARITAN HOME FOUNDATION | $2,350 |
| CULVER STOCKTON COLLEGE | $1,562 |
| QUINCY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,500 |
| CULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE | $1,450 |
| QUINCY PARK BAND INC | $1,150 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF QUINCY AREA | $1,000 |
| JACKSON-LINCOLN SWIM COMPLEX | $1,000 |
| WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS NUTRITION | $1,000 |
| WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AGING & | $1,000 |
| THE ART CENTER | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF QUINCY AREA | $875 |
| QUINCY CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION | $750 |
| THE QUINCY MUSEUM | $700 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF QUINCY AREA | $500 |
| QUINCY NOTRE DAME | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +43% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 7 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- QSQUINCY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +93%
- TBTHE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +210%
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN HOME FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +208%
Funded once
- QQCMAone grant, 2019 · $1k
- QAQUINCY AREA PROJECT - GENERAL FUNDone grant, 2024 · $975 · revenue 0%
- QYQUINCY YMCAone grant, 2023 · $930
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.
Promoting the historical significance of the city of quincy.
Production of musical, theatrical, and dramatic presentations.
Promote historic district in downtown quincy il
The corporation shall receive and disburse funds, property and gifts of any kind exclusively for the benefit of the quincy humane society, inc., an illinois not-for-profit corporation, or its successor.
Raise funds to provide scholarship grants for quincy college students.
Serving our residents, their families, staff and the greater community through compassionate care.
The quincy catholic elementary schools foundation enhances the gift of catholic education.
The quincy telecommunications corporation inc. (qtc) was formed in 1996 to serve the communication needs of residents, educational institutions, governmental bodies and not-for-profit organizations in the city of quincy. it is charged with…
To raise funds for the quincy public library.
To promote community development in the city of quincy and the surrounding areas.
To support economic growth through numerous business development and tourism initiatives.
The mission of the midsummer arts faire is to increase awareness and appreciation for the fine arts by presenting a set of experiences that connects artists and the community at large
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Quincy Area and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 37. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 96 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 CULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds QUINCY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds QUINCY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JACKSON-LINCOLN SWIMMING COMPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE QUINCY AREA ↗
- Who funds SUNSET HOME ↗
- Who funds SUNNYBROOK HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds QUINCY PARK BAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE QUINCY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds QUINCY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JENSEN CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS NUTRITION ↗
- Who funds QUINCY AREA PROJECT - GENERAL FUND ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY & ADAMS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CASTLE INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Quincy Area · Marion G Jackson Char Tr · The Jw Gardner II Foundation · Hofmeister Foundation · Nuessen Family Foundation · Kunes Family Foundation · The Cfm Foundation · The Lindsay Family Foundation · Stillwell Foundation · Blessing Hospital · Martha McCrory Foundation Inc · Quincy Exchange Club 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 Michelmann Foundation 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.
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% 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.
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