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· Public charity

Michigan State Medical Society Foundation

To advance the field of health for the public good.

$72k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$573kEducation$20kEmployment$18kHuman Services$9k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $43,050, the rows itemized in this filing. The $72,313 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $29,263 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL$12,850
MICHIGAN STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY$9,200
LOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES$7,000
ABUNDANT LIFE MINISTRIES OF BENTON HARBOR INC$7,000
CALVIN COLLEGE$7,000
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 (FY24–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES: $7k → 8%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$525k · 9 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$525k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+18%

Still filing today

67%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SC
    SAGINAW COOPERATIVE HOSPITALS INC DBA/CMU MEDICAL EDUCATION PARTNERS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue +63%
  • CU
    CALVIN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +4%
  • VISTA MARIA
    2× · 2019–2020 · $19k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • WM
    WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -66%
  • EW
    EDWARD W SPARROW HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • AC
    AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC FAMILY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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2
Michigan Psychiatric Society

Mission is to represent the interests and professional needs of psychiatric physicians in michigan while striving to ensure quality care for people with mental disorders and their families through promotion of education, research and…

—
3
Mymichigan Health

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
4
Trinity Health - Michigan

We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.

Health
5
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
6
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
7
Mymichigan Medical Center Saginaw

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
8
Advantage Healthsaint Mary's Medical Group

We, advantage health/saint mary's medical group and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.advantage health/saint mary's medical group…

Health
9
Up Health Education Corporation

The msu chm upper peninsula education corporation is a collaborative medical education corporation funded by the michigan state university college of human medicine and up health system marquette, dedicated to the medical education of…

Education
10
Mclaren Greater Lansing

Mclaren health care corporation, along with its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
11
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
12
Michigan Center for Clinical Systems Improvement

The organization's mission is to support community-based, stakeholder driven training for care teams including physicians, care managers, care coordinators, medical assistants and behavioral health specialists; facilitate training and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Health Partners; the most unlike its peers is Project Child. 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

13 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. 13 of the 20 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY: $265,200 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE MEDICAL SOCIETYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $102,800 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYCENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $19,944 · OtherVISTA MARIA: $18,880 · OtherMICHIGAN HEALTH COUNCIL: $17,500 · Other+6 more: $48,580 · Other+6 moreSAGINAW COOPERATIVE HOSPITALS INC DBA/CMU MEDICAL EDUCATION PARTNERS: $30,000 · HealthSAGINAW COOPE…MICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE: $15,000 · HealthMICHIGAN HEAL…EDWARD W SPARROW HOSPITAL: $10,000 · HealthEDWARD W SPAR…PROJECT CHILD: $10,000 · HealthPROJECT CHILDMINIMALLY INVASIVE NEUROSURGICAL SOCIETY: $9,000 · HealthMINIMALLY INV…CALVIN UNIVERSITY: $26,000 · EducationWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $10,000 · EducationLOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES: $7,000 · Human Services
Other$502,904Health$74,000Education$36,000Human Services$7,000

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 budgetMICHIGAN STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY: $265,200 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetSAGINAW COOPERATIVE HOSPITALS INC DBA/CMU MEDICAL EDUCATION PARTNERS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVISTA MARIA: $18,880 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN HEALTH COUNCIL: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDWARD W SPARROW HOSPITAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT CHILD: $10,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetMINIMALLY INVASIVE NEUROSURGICAL SOCIETY: $9,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetMERCY HEALTH PARTNERS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
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    How do I get to Michigan State Medical Society Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Michigan State Medical Society 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 20 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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