· Private foundation
Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $301k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PATRICK PARISH | $100,000 |
| CHRIST MEDICUS FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT | $65,000 |
| OPENDOOR OUTREACH CENTER | $60,500 |
| MOTHER AND UNBORN BABY CARE INC | $43,473 |
| GUEST HOUSE INC | $20,000 |
| MARIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| MERCY HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $7,500 |
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 (FY18–23, $345k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- APANGELS' PLACE5× · 2018–2022 · $280k · revenue +79%
- CMCHRIST MEDICUS FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $220k · revenue +46%
- MAMother and Unborn Baby Care Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $173k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- DODaughters of Divine Charityone grant, 2018 · $20k
- LHLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -121%
- MJMANRESA JESUIT RETREAT HOUSEone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
Lourdes senior community, inspired by the gospel of jesus and sponsored by the dominican sisters of peace, provides a broad continuum of care for seniors and their families. all who administer at lourdes honor the uniqueness of each person…
The organization provides nursing and assisted care to individuals of all faiths regardless of ability to pay.
To provide extended care to the chronically ill and disabled, with special emphasis on the care of the frail elderly.
St. Augustine Health Ministries continues the healing ministry of Christ by promoting the quality of life and independence of each person entrusted to our care through a continuum of health care and related services to the chronically ill…
Divine Mercy Ministries, Inc. is a Christian maternity home for women 18 years of age and older facing unexpected pregnancies. Open to women of all faiths, it provides a loving and nurturing environment to meet the spiritual, physical,…
Marian house is a holistic, healing community for women and their children who are in need of housing and support services. we provide a safe, sober, and loving environment that challenges women to respect and love themselves, confront…
Faithful to the spirit of the congregation of the daughters of mary, sancta maria nursing facility's mission is to witness christ's compassion, caring and love, reflecting the catholic church's role in the continuation of christ's healing…
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
We are committed to expressing christ's love by providing care that values every human life. st francis health services controls and operates morris health services and is sponsored by the catholic diocese of st cloud. we are dedicated to…
44-bed licensed skilled nursing home in catonsville, maryland that provides nursing care services to its residents.
To provide 24-hour residential substance abuse treatment for adult homeless men in a professional, compassionate, and therapeutic environment conducive to reducing drug and alcohol addiction and promoting their return to health,…
To provide christ-like healing to the community through education, treatment and health services. see schedule o for additional information. since 1900, st bernards has served as our community's trusted provider of comprehensive,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lourdes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mother and Unborn Baby Care Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 28 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 ANGELS' PLACE ↗
- Who funds CHRIST MEDICUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mother and Unborn Baby Care Inc ↗
- Who funds GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LOURDES INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADRIAN REA LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ABIDE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MARYGROVE COLLEGE ↗
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: Catholic Foundation of Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · John D & Jean E Dinan Foundation · William and Marie Molnar Foundation Corp · The Sehn Foundation · Molinello Family Foundation · Isabel Francis Smith and Ralph Lawrence Smith Foundation · Pat and Gerry Carroll Charitable Foundation · Pulte Family Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust 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.