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Mps 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
- Under $10k18 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $162k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE SUPERIOR CONSERVANCY & WATERSHED COUNCIL | $45,000 |
| MCLAREN NORTHERN MI HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ANN'S NEST | $25,000 |
| MSRW (MAC STRAITS RAPTOR WATCH) | $24,000 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY | $17,500 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
| NO CENTRAL MI COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $8,000 |
| ALLEN BASS FUND | $6,000 |
| RISING HOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS COMM FOOD PANTRY | $3,500 |
| PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGES OF MI FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| HARBOR HALL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- LTLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $162k · revenue +95%
- LTLITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $147k · revenue +263%
- NWNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- FTFIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MIone grant, 2018 · $100
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 protect scenic and natural lands in northern Michigan.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…
Heart of the Lakes provides technical assistance, leadership training, and strategic communication tools that help organizations thrive - from grassroots land conservancies to larger regional conservation groups. Programs such as peer…
It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…
To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…
Glacial Lakes Conservancy, as a land trust, is a nonprofit organization that, as part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions.
Acquire and otherwise manage conservation of lands within the watershed of Higgins Lake
To protect and restore land, air, water, and diversity of life through informed personal and public action.
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
To provide financial assistance to individuals and institutions for educational and scientific purposes in order to advance science to benefit the health and welfare of animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 36 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 Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Allen-Bass Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ANNS NEST ↗
- Who funds PETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RISING HOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A GOLDEN BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
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: Triford Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Tom and Ellen Noneman Foundation Co Plante Moran Trust · The Offield Family Foundation · Affordable Housing Management Foundation · Fabiano Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Summers Foundation Inc · The Kent 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 Mps 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.