· Private foundation
Monroe-Brown 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $428k
- $250k+6 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| DAFGIVING360 | $500,000 |
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE | $500,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $250,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN | $145,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $100,000 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $72,667 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION | $50,000 |
| BU FOUNDATION | $35,189 |
| THE LEELANAU SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $25,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Monroe-Brown Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -18% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $725k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Michigan5× · 2020–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +139%
- WMWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $465k · revenue +135%
- KCKALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S5× · 2020–2025 · $128k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- WHWMU HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - DONOR ADVISEDone grant, 2020 · $210k
- TCTHE CROSSING INCone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -33%
- ACARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOOone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +17%
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.
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.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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.…
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
To provide financial services to members with a common bond.
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.…
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 41 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO NONPROFIT ADVOCACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSING INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Leelanau School ↗
- Who funds SPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST CORP ↗
- Who funds NOBLE NETWORK OF CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Monroe-Brown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Monroe-Brown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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