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Michelmann Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$41kEducation$34kHuman Services$15kHealth$13kRecreation & Sports$7kCommunity Improvement$6kYouth Development$5kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
2
States reached
$269k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JACKSON-LINCOLN SWIM COMPLEX$1,000
WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS AGING &$1,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF QUINCY AREA$1,000
WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS NUTRITION$1,000
THE ART CENTER$1,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF QUINCY AREA$875
QUINCY CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION$750
THE QUINCY MUSEUM$700
YWCA$500
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF QUINCY AREA$500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GOOD SAMARITAN HOME FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%GOOD SAMARITAN HOME FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%GOOD SAMARITAN HOME FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%GOOD SAMARITAN HOME FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%GOOD SAMARITAN HOME FOUNDATION: $650 → 13%QUANADA: $500 → 13%CHADDOCK CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $300 → 13%GOOD SAMARITAN HOME FOUNDATION: $250 → 13%GOOD SAMARITAN HOME FOUNDATION: $150 → 13%CHADDOCK CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $100 → 13%CHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION: $100 → 13%CHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION: $100 → 13%QUINCY FAMILY YMCA: $100 → 13%CHADDOCK CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $100 → 13%QUINCY FAMILY YMCA: $100 → 13%CHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION: $100 → 13%CHADDOCK CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $100 → 13%QUINCY FAMILY YMCA: $100 → 13%CHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION: $100 → 13%CHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION: $100 → 13%CHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION: $100 → 13%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$116k · 51 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
37

Total granted

$116k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+26%

Still filing today

47%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • QS
    QUINCY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +93%
  • TB
    THE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +210%
  • GS
    GOOD SAMARITAN HOME FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +720%

Funded once

  • Q
    QCMA
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • QA
    QUINCY AREA PROJECT - GENERAL FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $975 · revenue 0%
  • QY
    QUINCY YMCA
    one grant, 2023 · $930
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
Quincy Historical Society

Promoting the historical significance of the city of quincy.

Arts & Culture
2
Quincy Music Theatre Inc

Production of musical, theatrical, and dramatic presentations.

Arts & Culture
3
Historic Quincy Business District

Promote historic district in downtown quincy il

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4
Quincy Humane Society Endowment % Sally Westerhoff

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.

Animals
5
The Quincy College Foundation Inc

Raise funds to provide scholarship grants for quincy college students.

Education
6
Good Samaritan Home of Quincy

Serving our residents, their families, staff and the greater community through compassionate care.

Human Services
7
Quincy Catholic Elementary Schools Foundation

The quincy catholic elementary schools foundation enhances the gift of catholic education.

Education
8
Quincy Telecommunications Corporation Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Friends of the Quincy Public Library

To raise funds for the quincy public library.

Education
10
Quincy Economic Development Corporation

To promote community development in the city of quincy and the surrounding areas.

Community Improvement
11
The Quincy Chamber of Commerce Inc

To support economic growth through numerous business development and tourism initiatives.

Community Improvement
12
Midsummer Arts Faire Nfp

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

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Quincy Area; 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.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
26/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

QUINCY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $11,650 · OtherQUINCY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRATHE ART CENTER: $5,769 · OtherTHE ART CENTERJWCC FOUNDATION: $5,500 · OtherJWCC FOUNDATIONQUINCY RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $4,250 · OtherQUINCY RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONQUINCY CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $3,500 · Other+68 more: $39,285 · Other+68 moreCULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE: $19,373 · EducationCULVER-STOCKTON COLLE…QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $5,270 · EducationQUINCY UNIVERSITY COR…THE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · HealthTHE BLESSI…SUNSET HOME: $2,350 · HealthSUNSET HOM…THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND: $1,500 · HealthTHE NATION…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 · Health+1 more: $66 · HealthGOOD SAMARITAN HOME FOUNDATION: $7,150 · Human ServicesCHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION: $600 · Human ServicesCHADDOCK CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $600 · Human ServicesQUINCY AREA NETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $500 · Human Services+1 more: $300 · Human ServicesQUINCY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $4,500 · Arts & CultureTHE QUINCY MUSEUM INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureQUINCY ART CENTER: $1,400 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY & ADAMS COUNTY: $900 · Arts & CultureQUINCY SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS: $500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $300 · Arts & CultureJACKSON-LINCOLN SWIMMING COMPLEX INC: $3,700 · Recreation & SportsJENSEN CAMP FOUNDATION: $1,100 · Recreation & SportsQUINCY PARK BOARD FOUNDATION: $500 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE QUINCY AREA: $2,875 · Philanthropy
Other$69,954Education$24,643Health$11,916Human Services$9,150Arts & Culture$9,100Recreation & Sports$5,300Philanthropy$2,875

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 budgetCULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE: $19,373 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetQUINCY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $11,650 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOME FOUNDATION: $7,150 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $5,270 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetQUINCY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJACKSON-LINCOLN SWIMMING COMPLEX INC: $3,700 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetQUINCY CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION: $3,500 over 4y, 20% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE QUINCY AREA: $2,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSET HOME: $2,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HOPE CENTER: $1,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetQUINCY PARK BAND INC: $1,650 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTHE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE QUINCY MUSEUM INC: $1,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetQUINCY ART CENTER: $1,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetQUINCY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,150 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJENSEN CAMP FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS NUTRITION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINCY AREA PROJECT - GENERAL FUND: $975 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY & ADAMS COUNTY: $900 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CASTLE INC: $700 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DISTRICT INC: $600 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHEERFUL HOME ASSOCIATION: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHADDOCK CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHADDOCK ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA SERVICES: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQUINCY SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budget2X4S FOR HOPE: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetQUINCY PARK BOARD FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetQUINCY AREA NETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WASHINGTON THEATER NFP: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $66 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRBF DOME NFP: $50 over 1y, 0.4% 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 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Marion G Jackson Char…The Jw Gardner II Fou…Hofmeister FoundationNuessen Family Founda…Kunes Family Foundati…The Cfm FoundationThe Lindsay Family Fo…Stillwell FoundationBlessing HospitalMartha McCrory Founda…Quincy Exchange Club …
Community Foundation of the Quincy AreaIL55.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Michelmann Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michelmann Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The National Federation of the Blind: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Michelmann Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Michelmann Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 96 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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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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