· Private foundation
The F&V 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, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHIGAN TECH FUND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| CITY OF ANDERSON | $6,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING | $5,000 |
| CITY OF PORTLAND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE RIGHT PLACE FOUNDATION | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 33% of The F&V Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 62%.
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 +16% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MTMichigan Tech Fund4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +16%
- MSMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $10k
- RPRIGHT PLACE FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $8k
- BLBelding Labor Day Commttee Incone grant, 2023 · $6k
- VOVILLAGE OF SHELBY - PARKS & RECREATIONone grant, 2023 · $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.
The purpose of pleasant ridge foundation is to enhance the quality of life for the residents of the city of pleasant ridge, mi.
Encourage ind/tech education
Educational.
To establish a scholargship fund that will support eligible students seeking an education in an accredited vocational school, technical school, or a two or four-year degree grating college or university accredited by the board of education
Commitment to Human Rights and supporting Civil Rights.
The mission of the michigan architectural foundation is to advance public awareness of how architecture enriches life in the state of michigan. it is achieved in three ways: 1)educating a future generation of architecture advocates.…
To expand educational opportunities, support student achievement, and foster excellence in teaching within the Chelsea School District.
Geneva Academic Foundation GAF provides educational experiences and opportunities through student scholarships and classroom grants for technology, programs, and equipment throughout Geneva Community School District 304, grades K-12.
Lansing Promise helps students in gaining access to higher education through readiness and scholarships.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 37 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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The F&V Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The F&V Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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