· Private foundation
Richard B Messer FBO Pennock Hospital
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $89k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIGHTHOUSE ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| CASA FOR KIDS INC | $15,000 |
| FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF BARRY COUNTY | $15,000 |
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BARRY | $15,000 |
| BARRY COMMUNITY TRIAL COURT INITIATIVE INC | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTION | $13,814 |
| ST ROSE OF LIMA CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THORNAPPLE ARTS COUNCIL OF BARRY COUNTY | $5,000 |
| GREEN GABLES HAVEN | $5,000 |
| THORNAPPLE VALLEY CHURCH | $2,000 |
| NOAH'S ARK PRESCHOOL | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- FSFAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF BARRY COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +47%
- CFCASA FOR KIDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +181%
- GGGREEN GABLES HAVEN9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- HAHASTINGS AREA SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $15k
- SHSPECTRUM HEALTH FOUNDATION PENNOCKone grant, 2021 · $10k
- CHCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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The mission of the children's advocacy center of southwest michigan is to support children through a coordinated response to child abuse and neglect that includes prevention, assessment and intervention.
Michigan casa, inc. is dedicated to changing the lives of abused and neglected children by advocating for their best interests through establishing, supporting, and expanding quality casa programs throughout the state of michigan to ensure…
To provide a safe caring place to evaluate any child who may have been abused
The recruitment, training, and support of community volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children who are temporary or permanent wards of the court in Kent County, Michigan.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
To provide domestic abuse advocacy to parents and children of cass, hubbard and clearwater counties.
Bcec inc. provides meeting and office space to non-profit and community groups that provide services and programs to residents of barry county.
Christian counseling ministry
To provide terminally ill patients and their loved ones dignity and peace during their final days in a compassionate surrounding.
Citizens mediation service, inc.'s mission is to successfully resolve conflict through mediation services that facilitate lasting, positive solutions by empowering the residents of berrien, cass, saint joseph, van buren and kalamazoo…
To strengthen and enhance the wellbeing of families and individuals throughout the life cycle and to advocate for a community environment that nurtures family life and promotes social responsibility.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barry Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Young Men's Christian Association of Barry County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 26 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 FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF BARRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GREEN GABLES HAVEN ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BARRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THORNAPPLE ARTS COUNCIL OF BARRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTION DBA MEDIATION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BARRY COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
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: Barry Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Richard B Messer FBO Pennock Hospital 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.