· Private foundation
Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust
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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +46% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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,…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 28 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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