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Molinello Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k24 grants · $575k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $785k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| ANGELS' PLACE | $70,000 |
| BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE | $70,000 |
| LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $70,000 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $70,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $70,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $70,000 |
| POPE FRANCIS CENTER | $60,000 |
| SOUTH OAKLAND CITIZENS FOR THE HOMELESS | $55,000 |
| DETROIT RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN | $50,000 |
| PENRICKTON CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| ROSE HILL CENTER INC | $45,000 |
| THE FURNITURE BANK OF METRO DETROIT | $45,000 |
| THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN | $35,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
43 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $815k · revenue +145%- LDLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND9× · 2017–2025 · $640k · revenue +26%
- APANGELS' PLACE9× · 2017–2025 · $630k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - SHRINEone grant, 2020 · $35k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $30k
- BFBEAUMONT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide 24-hour residential substance abuse treatment for adult homeless men in a professional, compassionate, and therapeutic environment conducive to reducing drug and alcohol addiction and promoting their return to health,…
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
Community & home supports, inc. was founded to help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we strive to fulfill our purpose by developing, leading, and participating in collaborative and innovative efforts that support…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte (RMHC of GC) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare. Charlotte is recognized as a leading destination…
to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit
Hospice of Michigan, Inc. meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.
Detroit central city community mental health's mission is to achieve wellness in the community by providing an integrated array of mental health, housing and substance abuse services with diginity and respect.
It is the mission of the evangelical homes of michigan, a health and human service ministry related to the united church of christ, to provide health and housing servcies to persons who are elderly in a manner which respects their rights,…
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
To provide a "home away from home and offer support to families seeking medical care for their children.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rose Hill Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gilda's Club Metro Detroit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 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. 36 of the 54 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' PLACE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH OAKLAND CITIZENS FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
- Who funds Penrickton Center for Blind Children ↗
- Who funds BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ROSE HILL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUDSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAS ↗
- Who funds THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN ↗
- Who funds CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds PINK FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD MEDICAL RELIEF INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BEDS 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds REACHING HIGHER INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR SACRED HEART HOME ↗
- Who funds THE FURNITURE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER ↗
- Who funds DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds ROSE HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds WAVE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Carls Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · Wendell & Doris Rogers Charitable Foundation · Young Woman's Home Association of Detroit Michigan · Aa Van Elslander Foundation · The Jewish Fund · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · Pulte Family Charitable Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · United Jewish Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Molinello Family 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.