· Private foundation
Ramser-Morgan 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 $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER | $21,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY SCHOOL OF | $21,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY EASTERN MICHIGAN | $21,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN | $21,000 |
| ST CATHERINE OF SIENA ACADEMY | $11,000 |
| FRIENDS FOR ANIMALS OF METRO | $11,000 |
| MADONNA UNIVERSITY | $11,000 |
| VISTA MARIA | $9,000 |
| THE YOUTH CONNECTION | $7,000 |
| NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of its 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 +17% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN9× · 2017–2025 · $116k · revenue +87%- MUMadonna University9× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +8%
FRIENDS FOR ANIMALS OF METRO DETROIT5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- COCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONSone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -24%
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.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Creating healthy communities - together
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 17 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 UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Madonna University ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR ANIMALS OF METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds The Youth Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds ROEPER CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds THE FLINT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Ramser-Morgan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ramser-Morgan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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