· Private foundation
The Doan Family 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND COUNTY | $15,000 |
| DELTA HD DOAN SCHOLARSHIP | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SHELTERHOUSE - CDVSA | $8,000 |
| ARNOLD CENTER | $7,000 |
| MIDLAND SENIOR SERVICES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DELTA COLLEGE BROADCAST CENTER | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH CENTRAL MI | $5,000 |
| WINDOVER HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| MIDLAND KIDS FIRST | $4,000 |
| MYMICHIGAN HEALTH | $3,000 |
| MCFTA-FRIENDS OF THE CENTER | $2,500 |
| WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER | $2,000 |
| GREATER MIDLAND NORTH FAMILY CENTER | $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 (FY20–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
36 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 85% 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
- GMGREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC3× · 2020–2022 · $34k · revenue +129%
- WMWEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +20%
- ACARNOLD CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- MCMIDLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS- MATRIC- CINEMAone grant, 2020 · $7k
- MCMIDLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS- MATRIX- CINEMAone grant, 2021 · $4k
- TRTHE ROCKone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
To provide personal and compassionate support to cancer patients and their caregivers in our community.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Creating healthy communities - together
The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
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.
Creating healthy communities - together
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…
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 promote and encourage independence for all people with disabilities.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 48 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 United Way of Midland County ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIDLAND COMMUNITY CTRS INC ↗
- Who funds WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARNOLD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MYMICHIGAN HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Eagle Village Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND KIDS FIRST ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Midland County ↗
- Who funds Northwood University ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Midland Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds Reaching Our Community Kids ↗
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: Midland Area Community Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · Bill and Linda Stavropoulos Family Foundation · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Edward and Elyse Rogers Family Foundation · Alden and Vada Dow Fund · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Mary C Currie Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Doan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Doan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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