· Private foundation
The Dr Michael R Hourani Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREAT LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $45,000 |
| MCLAREN GREATER LANSING FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| DIER MIMAS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION | $40,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| ST JOSEPH THE BETROTHED MELKITE GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH | $20,000 |
| STEWARDSHIP FOR SAINTS AND SCHOLARS | $15,000 |
| ST GERARD CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| NEHEMIAH | $7,500 |
| EATON RAPIDS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| CITY RESCUE MISSION LANSING | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LTLITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +51%
- GLGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +27%
- EREATON RAPIDS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- STST THOMAS AQUINAS PARISH EASTone grant, 2023 · $5k
- LCLANSING CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $5k
- TPTHE PURPLE ROSE THEATRE COMPANYone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Mclaren health care corporation, along with its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
Mclaren healthcare, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
Creating healthy communities - together
Provide professional services for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and infectious disease and related conditions.
Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
Creating healthy communities - together
We create opportunities to inspire generosity and connect with our community.
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…
Our mission is to help people to live longer, healthier lives with dignity, and to use all of our resources to give them everything they expect and deserve in comprehensive cardiovascular care for their families and themselves.
To advance the well-being of michigan residents through the promotion of sound public policies and responsible legislation. the purpose of these activities is to promote policies that strengthen the michigan health care system.
We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mclaren Greater Lansing Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Deirmimas Benevolent Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Great Lakes Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN GREATER LANSING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEIRMIMAS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds EATON RAPIDS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PURPLE ROSE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Dr Michael R Hourani Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.