· Private foundation
Micron Industries Charitable Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k13 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hillsdale College | $15,000 |
| Fellowship of Companies for Christ | $15,000 |
| First Liberty Institute | $4,000 |
| Illinois Family Institute | $4,000 |
| Greater Sterling Development Corp | $4,000 |
| Salvation Army | $3,000 |
| Semper Fi | $3,000 |
| Fuller Theological Seminary | $3,000 |
| Pacific Garden Mission | $3,000 |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $2,500 |
| Sterling Rock Falls Family YMCA | $2,500 |
| Turning Point USA | $2,000 |
| Museum of the Bible | $2,000 |
| Our Daily Bread Ministires | $1,500 |
| DuPage Veterans Foundation | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of your 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.
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.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…
To prepare principled leaders for faith-informed public service.
The institute on religion and public life is an interreligious, nonpartisan research and educational 501(c)(3) organization. the institute's mission is to articulate a governing consensus that supports: (see schedule o)- a religiously…
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.
The niu foundation's mission is to energize and connect the private sector with the niu community to secure and steward resources that support the future and growth of niu.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turning Point Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dupage Veterans Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 15 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Fellowship of Companies For Christ ↗
- Who funds GREATER STERLING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds STERLING-ROCK FALLS FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Micron Industries Charitable 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.
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.