· 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 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 $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $89k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF BARRY COUNTY | $15,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| CASA FOR KIDS INC | $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 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
None
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 26 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 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 ↗
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: Barry Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard B Messer FBO Pennock Hospital funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard B Messer FBO Pennock Hospital. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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