· Private foundation
Robert & Jeanine Dagenais 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 $10k30 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOOLCRAFT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MARQUETTE | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN TECHOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| LAKE ANTOINE PARK PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| LAKE ANTOINE PARK PARTNERS | $5,000 |
| TRILLIUM HOUSE | $5,000 |
| TRILLIUM HOUSE | $5,000 |
| M&M CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC | $5,000 |
| PREGNACY SERVICES OF DELTA COUNTY | $5,000 |
| UP FOSTER GRANDPARENT PROGRAM | $3,000 |
| MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| BAY DE NOC COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| GREAT LAKES SPORTS & RECREATION CLB | $3,000 |
| SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
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, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 5% 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 +45% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
74 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTRILLIUM HOUSE INC4× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +73%
- SMSchoolcraft Memorial Hospital2× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +45%
- NLNORTHERN LIGHTS YMCA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $29k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- WWISCOone grant, 2020 · $18k
- EFESCANABA FAN CLUBone grant, 2018 · $6k
- OSOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
Promote the improvement of dental health in washtenaw county, mi
State of michigan snonmobile trails and atv trails groomed and maintained. hunter safety courses conducted. fish plants made in public streams
Maintain & improve pere marquette michigan area snowmobile trails.
Community development
Operate and maintain public golf course in the detroit lakes area; provide recreation for all ages
To provide recreational ski trail to area residents and to visitors to gogebic county, michigan. to provide cross country ski lessons and to hold other fitness conscious events during the year.
The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.
To maintain and develop a museum in iron county, mi. to collect,house and preserve artifacts in intreprtive exhibits, which will show the economic, occupational, social and cultural development of iron county and its relationship to the…
Improvement of the business conditions of agriculture and trade in the mississippi delta communities and in industrial development in the mississippi delta
To preserve, record and maintain the historical information of the area between michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, known as michilimackinac.
Channels individual, member, and corporate gifts for benefit of community.
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 168 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 TRILLIUM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM BONIFAS FINE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY SERVICES OF DELTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BELLIN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds IXL HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF LAPEER CO ↗
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: Superior Health Foundation · Edward J Sackerson Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of the Upper Peninsula · The Donald and Audrey Anderson Foundation · John and Melissa Besse Foundation · Ray & Peg Hirvonen Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Marquette County · West End Health Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · DTE Energy Foundation · Daniel J Kobasic Foundation · M & M Area Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert & Jeanine Dagenais Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
How this is measured
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