· Private foundation
Mt Zion Lutheran Church Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k10 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOVE FOR A CHILD | $15,000 |
| NIA PURPOSE FOR LIFE AGENCY | $15,000 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $12,000 |
| FAMILY OF GOD | $12,000 |
| SAMARTIAN HOUSE | $12,000 |
| LIVING WATERS MINISTRY | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,972 |
| SHEPHERDS OF THE LAKES LUTHERAN | $4,000 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| GENISIS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| HOLY FAITH CHURCH | $1,820 |
| SAINT JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,700 |
| ST GEORGE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| ST MARTIN LUTHERAN CHURCH | $902 |
| UNITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $822 |
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, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 22 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTIMOTHY LUTHERAN CHURCH5× · 2018–2024 · $30k
- LWLIVING WATERS MINISTRY4× · 2022–2025 · $20k
- SGST GEORGE LUTHERAN CHURCH7× · 2017–2025 · $17k
Funded once
- PLPILGRAM LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $6k
- GSGRACIOUS SAVIOUR LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $6k
- LWLIVING WATER MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
Provide affordable housing for low income families.
To help low-income residents in detroit and wayne county stay in their homes and strengthen their communities, through representation, support, and ownership. we believe that having a place to live is a basic human right, and are…
To act as an advocate for the homeless and potentially homeless in macomb county by collaborating efforts that promote and sustain self-sufficiency
Provide care for homeless/abused animals
Dedicated to working with other community organizations and institutions toward creating a community environment that supports the positive growth and development of all of its members.
Drawing from religious, business, civic and individual resources, the Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers program works to meet two mutually entwined and equally important purposes: to respond to the ever-growing needs of older and physically…
To provide assistance to homeless individuals
The mission is to provide food to needy and/or homeless veterans of macomb county michigan
Samaritan homes inc. seeks to provide affordable housing and residential services for all persons with physical, emotional, mental, developmental, learning, economic, and social disabilities including persons of low and moderate income.
A nonprofit ecumenical christian housing ministry dedicated to eleminating substandard housing and homelessness worldwide and to making adequate, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 75 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.
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: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mt Zion Lutheran Church Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mt Zion Lutheran Church Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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