· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| RISING HOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS COMM FOOD PANTRY | $3,500 |
| PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGES OF MI FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HARBOR HALL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL | $2,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Center for the Arts ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mps Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mps Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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