· Private foundation
Michigan Foundation for Vision Awareness
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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $251
- $10k–50k7 grants · $124k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EYE CARE FOR DETROIT | $28,291 |
| EXALTA HEALTH | $20,929 |
| UD MERCY SCHOOL OF OPTOMETRY | $20,000 |
| FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| DR GARY BURNSTEIN CLINIC | $15,000 |
| MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY - SVOSH | $14,330 |
| FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,715 |
| MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY | $251 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 7% of Michigan Foundation for Vision Awareness’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 90%.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMICHIGAN COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY5× · 2021–2025 · $123k
- HIHEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES3× · 2022–2025 · $98k · revenue +4%
- MCMICHIGAN COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY - SVOSH4× · 2022–2025 · $82k
Funded once
- HUHEALTH UNIT DAVISON AVE (HUDA) CLINICone grant, 2022 · $53k
- EEversightone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +11%
- GLGreat Lakes Bay Health Centersone grant, 2024 · $49k · revenue +23%
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.
None
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
Open Cities Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) whose mission is to provide culturally competent primary and preventive healthcare services to a largely underserved population in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
Cherry Street Health Services improves the health and wellness of individuals by providing comprehensive primary and behavioral health care while encouraging access by those who are underserved.
Hope is a not-for-profit interdenominational christian medical, dental, and social service organization. hope's goal is to provide compassionate and practical help, ministering to the whole person with dignity and respect. this includes…
To provide access to high quality, comprehensive, primary healthcare in cook county to all users, regardless of financial ability to pay for service.
To eliminate treatable blindness through the training of eye care professionals and development of eye care infrastructure.
Creating healthy communities - together
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
To improve the communitys health through the efficient provision, coordination, and integration of quality health services, health education, and research. To provide compassionate, quality health services according to the spiritual,…
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 23 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 HEALTH INTERVENTION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Eversight ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Bay Health Centers ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds BALDWIN FAMILY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds EYE CARE FOR DETROIT ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds DAMES AND KNIGHTS OF THE ORDER OF MALTA MEDICAL AND DENTAL CLINIC OF ↗
- Who funds Southern College of Optometry ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michigan Foundation for Vision Awareness funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michigan Foundation for Vision Awareness. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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