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Myers Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$245k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $175k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION AMERICA$30,000
ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$20,000
SALVATION ARMY - GREAT LAKES$20,000
EVERSIGHT$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FED OF AMERICA$11,500
FEEDING AMERICA$11,500
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$11,500
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OAKLAND CTY$10,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$10,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$10,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$10,000
READERS DIGEST PARTNER-SIGHT FOUND$10,000
MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$7,000
DETROIT JUSTICE CENTER$7,000
GLEANERS COMM FOOD BANK SE MICH$7,000
02The need
02

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CLEAR AIR TASK FORCE: $5k → 16%CENTRAL CITY HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $5k → 10%PHYSICIANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH: $5k → 9%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $12k → 17%SALVATION ARMY - GREAT LAKES: $20k → 8%EVERSIGHT: $20k → 14%MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $7k → 16%ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $7k → 21%EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5k → 18%ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $20k → 17%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10k → 7%READERS DIGEST PARTNER-SIGHT FOUND: $10k → 9%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $5k → 17%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OAKLAND CTY: $10k → 8%DETROIT JUSTICE CENTER: $7k → 21%ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION AMERICA: $30k → 17%HERE TO HELP FOUNDATION: $7k → 8%GLEANERS COMM FOOD BANK SE MICH: $7k → 21%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMM: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
AL
TX

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.

03Your field

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.

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Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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3
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
4
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
7
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
8
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice

The organization is known as the leader in the movement and is seen as the "go to" experts on environmental justice and sustainable redevelopment because of its knowledge and its network.

Health
9
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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10
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
11
The Climate Group Inc

Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…

Environment
12
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Here to Help Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
6/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Eversight — $20,000 · OtherEversightST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — $20,000 · OtherST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITALSALVATION ARMY - GREAT LAKES — $20,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY - GREAT LAKESTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $10,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYREADERS DIGEST PARTNER-SIGHT FOUND — $10,000 · OtherREADERS DIGEST PARTNER-SIGHT FOUNDHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OAKLAND CTY — $10,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OAKLAND CTYGLEANERS COMM FOOD BANK SE MICH — $7,000 · OtherGLEANERS COMM FOOD BANK SE MICHCentral City Hospitality House — $5,000 · OtherDetroit Justice Center — $7,000 · OtherDetroit Justice CenterALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS — $7,000 · OtherALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLSALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $30,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AM…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $11,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATIO…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association I…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $11,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOU…MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL — $7,000 · EnvironmentMICHIGAN ENVI…CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TAS…CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL — $5,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CA…Feeding America — $11,500 · Food & NutritionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $5,000 · InternationalEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $5,000 · Civil RightsPhysicians For Reproductive Health — $5,000 · Civil RightsHERE TO HELP FOUNDATION — $7,000 · Philanthropy
Other$116,000Health$61,500Environment$28,500Food & Nutrition$11,500International$10,000Civil Rights$10,000Philanthropy$7,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEversight — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America — $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHERE TO HELP FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDetroit Justice Center — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral City Hospitality House — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians For Reproductive Health — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Myers Family 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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