· Private foundation
The Beyer Family Foundation Inc
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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRENNA PELECIN FDN | $300 |
| PETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS AREA COMM F | $250 |
| WASHINGTON LEE LAW SCHOOL | $200 |
| GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE | $200 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVATORY | $150 |
| ALBION COLLEGE | $150 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS | $100 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMMANITY | $100 |
| COMMON GROUND | $100 |
| DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100 |
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 (FY20–21, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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 +66% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LTLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +66%
GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE6× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +60%- MAMURRAY ART GUILD4× · 2021–2024 · $1k · revenue +227%
Funded once
- PSPETOSKEY-HARBOR SPRINGS COMM FOUNDone grant, 2020 · $500
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $250
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $250 · revenue +14%
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.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
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 protect and nurture companion animals and enrich the lives of people who love them.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
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.…
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
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 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 Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds MURRAY ART GUILD ↗
- Who funds THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds BRENNA PELECIN FDN ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALBION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Beyer Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Beyer Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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