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Molitor Family Foundation at a glance

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Molitor 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.

$239k
Granted FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$283kHuman Services$248kInternational$248kFood & Nutrition$134kHousing & Shelter$118kPhilanthropy$71kYouth Development$54kReligion$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k62 grants · $169k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
$3,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$89k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES$10,000
HOUSING RESOURCES INC$10,000
GREATER KALAMAZOO UNITED WAY$10,000
FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES$10,000
MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY$10,000
AMERICARES$10,000
HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION$10,000
U OF M MEDICAL CENTER$7,500
YMCA OF KALAMAZOO$7,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$5,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$5,000
KALAMAZOO COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS$5,000
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 (FY20–25, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Canine Companions for Independence: $2k → 15%Health Network Foundation: $20k → 17%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $2k → 15%Health Network Foundation: $3k → 17%Canine Companions for Independence: $2k → 15%Health Network Foundation: $3k → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%Health Network Foundation: $10k → 17%Centrica Care Navigators: $2k → 12%Centrica Care Navigators: $1k → 12%CENTRICA CARE NAVIGATORS: $1k → 12%Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan: $1k → 12%Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan: $1k → 12%Kalamazoo County Ready 4s: $5k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $2k → 12%Kalamazoo County Ready 4s: $2k → 12%ECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 12%Family & Children Services: $10k → 12%Family & Children Services: $10k → 12%Family & Children Services: $10k → 12%Family & Children Services: $10k → 12%FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $10k → 12%Family & Children Services: $10k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 65 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
13

Total granted

$1.3M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
-7%

Still filing today

60%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • KL
    KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $74k · revenue +33%
  • MW
    MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +49%
  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -7%
  • PH
    PROJECT H O P E INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
2
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
3
Kalamazoo College

The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…

Education
4
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
5
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
6
Mymichigan Medical Center Saginaw

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
7
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

—
8
Mclaren Northern Michigan

Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
9
Mymichigan Medical Center Alma

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
10
Mymichigan Medical Center Gladwin

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
11
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
12
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Healing Centers; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

49 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. 49 of the 89 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
38/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOUSING RESOURCES INC: $60,000 · OtherHOUSING RESOURCES INCGREATER KALAMAZOO UNITED WAY: $60,000 · OtherGREATER KALAMAZOO UNITED WAYU of M Medical Center: $45,000 · OtherU of M Medical CenterKALAMAZOO GOSPEL MISSION: $31,000 · OtherDISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: $30,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $30,000 · OtherYWCA of Kalamazoo: $29,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $28,000 · OtherRESIDENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES INC: $27,000 · OtherKalamazoo Communities in Schools: $26,000 · OtherWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $30,000 · OtherPRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC: $29,000 · Other+49 more: $276,563 · Other+49 moreAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDAT…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $30,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRON…DIRECT RELIEF: $30,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFSave The Children Federation Inc: $30,000 · InternationalSave The Children …COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $30,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR AS…PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $21,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND…Bronson Health Foundation: $67,000 · HealthBronson Hea…NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $30,000 · HealthNATIONAL JE…NTM INFO & RESEARCH INC: $18,000 · HealthNTM INFO & …LENDING HANDS OF MICHIGAN INC: $8,000 · HealthLENDING HAN…GRYPHON PLACE: $6,000 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · HealthKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $74,150 · Food & NutritionKALAMAZOO …MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC: $60,000 · Food & NutritionMINISTRY W…FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & C…HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $46,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETW…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COM…KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $9,000 · Human ServicesKALAMAZOO …Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan: $5,500 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $6,000 · PhilanthropyKALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$701,563International$226,000Health$141,500Food & Nutrition$134,150Human Services$133,000Philanthropy$36,000Housing & Shelter$30,500

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 budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $74,150 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBronson Health Foundation: $67,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING RESOURCES INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $46,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC: $29,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMYRTLE HOUSE MINISTRIES: $21,625 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC: $20,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetNTM INFO & RESEARCH INC: $18,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLENDING HANDS OF MICHIGAN INC: $8,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO LITERACY COUNCIL: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGRYPHON PLACE: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHospice Care of Southwest Michigan: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetREAD AND WRITE KALAMAZOO: $5,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE COALITION INC: $3,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFARMERS ALLEY THEATRE: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC: $3,100 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetPortage Education Foundation: $2,700 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetKALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESIDE FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetECUMENICAL SENIOR CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Rescue Aspen Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOMEWORKS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN MARITIME MUSEUM INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% 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 KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MYRTLE HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NTM INFO & RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE 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.

Kalamazoo Community F…Tyler-Little Family F…Dorothy U Dalton Foun…Irving S Gilmore Foun…John E Fetzer Institu…Harold and Grace Upjo…Marvin and Rosalie Ok…United Way of South C…Mike and Sharon Seely…The Burdick-Thorne Fo…Suzanne Upjohn Delano…Jim Gilmore Jr Founda…
Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI62.6× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Jim Gilmore Jr 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 Molitor Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Molitor Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report 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 89 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home