Michigan · Private foundation
Mojo Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2024
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 48
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $46M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Mojo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 54 | $3.8M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $2.4M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $2.2M | 2% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $2.5M | 8% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $1.9M | 4% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $1.6M | 7% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $1.3M | 16% |
| FY2017 | 42 | $945k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olivet Nazarene University Foundation | $5,650,000 | 8 | 14% |
| Homes for Hope | $575,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Northpointe Christian Schools | $561,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Mel Trotter Ministries | $445,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Da Blodgett - St John's | $420,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Family Promise of Grand Rapids | $340,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Kids' Food Basket Inc | $297,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Safe Haven Ministries Inc | $290,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Mackinac Center | $250,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Pregnancy Resource Center | $245,000 | 8 | 2% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mojo Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Barnabas Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Jerry & Marcia Tubergen Foundation
How this is measured
About Mojo Foundation
- How much does Mojo Foundation give?
- Mojo Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $3,782,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Mojo Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Religion (25%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
- Who are Mojo Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Olivet Nazarene University Foundation ($5.7M), Homes for Hope ($575k), Northpointe Christian Schools ($561k).
- Does Mojo Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mojo Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mojo Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation, Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation.
- Where is Mojo Foundation based?
- Mojo Foundation is based in MI.
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