· Private foundation
Robert W & Eileen E Hesse Memorial Fund
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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE THEATRE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| FRANKENMUTH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOOD CLUB & KITCH | $10,000 |
| 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.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -50% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TTEMPLEARTS3× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +385%
- MCMAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS5× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +25%
- MCMID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM3× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- YYMCAone grant, 2024 · $40k
- RMRAUCHHOLZ MEMORIAL LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $10k
- MHMICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCEone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -50%
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 Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
To joyfully bring diverse people together to build community, enhance understanding, advance public storytelling and the arts, and protect our historic buildings.
To entertain, educate and inspire a diverse and expanding regional audiences in the arts, sciences and humanities.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Maintain historical museum
A voice of the building industry in Michigan. The primary purpose is to positively influence the legislative, regulatory and legal issues that affect the industry.
The Historical Society of Michigan will foster in citizens a deeper understanding of and appreciation for all Michigan history through programs and publications; preserve and promote Michigan history through conferences, publications,…
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
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.
To enrich the communities of Southeastern Michigan in fostering excellence and innovation to our community in the performance of orchestral music to educate current and future audiences
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC-SAGINAW ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEMPLEARTS ↗
- Who funds MAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS ↗
- Who funds MID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
- Who funds FRANKENMUTH HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE ↗
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: Saginaw Community Foundation · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Morley Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Yeo Family Foundation · Drsamuel Shaheen Family Foundation · Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Wm McNally Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert W & Eileen E Hesse Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert W & Eileen E Hesse Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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