· Public charity
Michigan Municipal League Foundation
To operate exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3), and to organize to work with michigan communities to support efforts that bring people together and build equitable community wealth.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAY CITY | $20,000 |
| CITY OF DEARBORN | $20,000 |
| CITY OF BELLEVILLE | $8,000 |
| CITY OF CHELSEA | $8,000 |
| CITY OF UTICA | $8,000 |
| VILLAGE OF ORTONVILLE | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 41% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
5 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. 5 of the 739 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: Small Business Association of Michigan · Detroit Economic Growth Association · Center for Technology and Civic Life
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michigan Municipal League Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michigan Municipal League Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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