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Molinello Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Health$3.2MHuman Services$3.0MHousing & Shelter$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.2MReligion$670kPublic Safety & Disaster$425kEducation$265kRecreation & Sports$140kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k24 grants · $575k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $785k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$100,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$70,000
BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE$70,000
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND$70,000
FORGOTTEN HARVEST$70,000
ANGELS' PLACE$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
THE FURNITURE BANK OF METRO DETROIT$45,000
ROSE HILL CENTER INC$45,000
CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES$35,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%REACHING HIGHER: $15k → 5%WAVE PROJECT: $20k → 10%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $60k → 21%REACHING HIGHER: $15k → 5%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $50k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $50k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $50k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $35k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $30k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $20k → 21%ST VINCENT AND SARAH FISHER CENTER: $15k → 21%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $35k → 21%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $30k → 21%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $30k → 21%SAMARITAS: $30k → 21%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $30k → 21%SAMARITAS: $25k → 21%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $20k → 21%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $20k → 21%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $15k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $35k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $30k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $30k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $30k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $25k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $20k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $20k → 21%SAMARITAS: $30k → 8%SAMARITAS: $25k → 8%SAMARITAS: $25k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $15k → 21%SAMARITAS: $25k → 8%SAMARITAS: $25k → 8%JUDSON CENTER: $50k → 8%JUDSON CENTER: $25k → 8%ANGELS' PLACE: $80k → 8%ANGELS' PLACE: $75k → 8%ANGELS' PLACE: $70k → 8%ANGELS' PLACE: $70k → 8%ANGELS' PLACE: $70k → 8%ANGELS' PLACE: $70k → 8%ANGELS' PLACE: $70k → 8%ANGELS' PLACE: $65k → 8%ANGELS' PLACE: $60k → 8%JUDSON CENTER INC: $30k → 8%JUDSON CENTER: $25k → 8%JUDSON CENTER INC: $20k → 8%JUDSON CENTER: $20k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 43 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
8

Total granted

$10M
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+66%

Still filing today

74%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $815k · revenue +145%
  • LD
    LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $640k · revenue +26%
  • AP
    ANGELS' PLACE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $630k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - SHRINE
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • BF
    BEAUMONT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
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
Mariners Inn

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,…

Health
2
Michigan Christian Home

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…

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3
Community & Home Supports Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc

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…

Human Services
5
St Johns Community Center

to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit

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6
Hospice of Michigan Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Detroit Central City Cmh Inc

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.

Health
8
Shared Services Home Health Care Corp

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,…

Health
9
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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10
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

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…

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11
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Midwest Mn Wi Ia

To provide a "home away from home and offer support to families seeking medical care for their children.

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12
Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rose Hill Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 54 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
29/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $640,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYCAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN: $580,000 · OtherCAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHENAMERICAN RED CROSS: $425,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSNATIONAL SHRINE OF THE LITTLE FLOWER BASILICA PARISH ROYAL OAK: $410,000 · OtherNATIONAL SHRINE OF THE LITTLE FLOWER BAS…DETROIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $265,000 · OtherDETROIT CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INCSISTERS OF MARY REPARATRIX: $255,000 · OtherSISTERS OF MARY REPARATRIXST VINCENT DE PAUL - SHRINE: $200,000 · OtherCASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $195,000 · OtherFURNITURE BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MI: $185,000 · Other+16 more: $630,000 · Other+16 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $815,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH H…Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $385,000 · HealthDetroit Rescue Mission Minist…Penrickton Center for Blind Children: $370,000 · HealthPenrickton Center for Blind C…BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $350,000 · HealthBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER I…ROSE HILL CENTER INC: $220,000 · HealthROSE HILL CENTER INCON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN: $160,000 · HealthON MY OWN OF MICHIGANPINK FUND INC: $110,000 · Health+5 more: $295,000 · Health+5 moreLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $640,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLINDANGELS' PLACE: $630,000 · Human ServicesANGELS' PLACEPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $305,000 · Human ServicesPOPE FRANCIS CENTERCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $220,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGANJUDSON CENTER INC: $205,000 · Human ServicesJUDSON CENTER INCSAMARITAS: $205,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITASTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE EMPOWERMENT PLANREACHING HIGHER INC: $90,000 · Human Services+3 more: $135,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH OAKLAND CITIZENS FOR THE HOMELESS: $415,000 · Housing & ShelterBEDS 4 KIDS: $95,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $410,000 · Food & NutritionGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $275,000 · Arts & CultureCROSSROADS FOR YOUTH: $140,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,785,000Health$2,705,000Human Services$2,630,000Housing & Shelter$520,000Food & Nutrition$410,000Arts & Culture$275,000Recreation & Sports$140,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $815,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $640,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetANGELS' PLACE: $630,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTH OAKLAND CITIZENS FOR THE HOMELESS: $415,000 over 9y, 31% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $410,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $385,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetPenrickton Center for Blind Children: $370,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $350,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $305,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $275,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $220,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetROSE HILL CENTER INC: $220,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetJUDSON CENTER INC: $205,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAS: $205,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $200,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetCASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $195,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN: $160,000 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR YOUTH: $140,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetPINK FUND INC: $110,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetWORLD MEDICAL RELIEF INCORPORATED: $110,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBEDS 4 KIDS: $95,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetREACHING HIGHER INC: $90,000 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR SACRED HEART HOME: $90,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FURNITURE RESOURCE CENTER: $85,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER: $75,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetDETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN: $75,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMON GROUND: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROSE HILL FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWAVE PROJECT: $50,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetGUEST HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DET: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSKY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …United Way for Southe…The Carls FoundationPhillip and Elizabeth…Wendell & Doris Roger…Young Woman's Home As…Aa Van Elslander Foun…The Jewish FundEthel and James Flinn…Pulte Family Charitab…Flagstar Foundation I…United Jewish Foundat…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI45.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Molinello Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Molinello Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 54 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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