· Private foundation
The June & Cecil McDole Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $167k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAY TOWNSHIP FIRE & RESCUE AUX | $30,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF MICHIGAN | $30,000 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $26,000 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $26,000 |
| CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| HORIZONS-UPWARD BOUND AT CRANBROOK | $15,000 |
| OAKLAND HOPE | $12,500 |
| HOSTEL DETROIT | $10,000 |
| WRCJ | $7,500 |
| LIGHTHOUSE EMERGENCY SERVICES | $7,500 |
| MICHIGAN RED SOX | $7,500 |
| KIDS COALITION AGAINST HUNGER | $7,000 |
| CROSS OF CHRIST CHURCH | $7,000 |
| FAMILY OF GOD LCMS | $5,000 |
| THE WHY WOULDN'T WE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 18 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- OHOAKLAND HOPE7× · 2019–2025 · $85k · revenue +36%
- MRMICHIGAN RED SOX4× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +156%
LIFE REMODELED9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- UFUS FOR BELIZE FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH & ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +380%
SOUTHWEST SOLUTIONS INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -20%- 442STRONGone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -17%
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.
The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…
To operate as a supporting organization by supporting and carrying out the charitable, religious, literary, and educational functions of s.a.y. detroit. to aid and assist impoverished children by meeting their safety, medical, housing,…
Our mission is to benefit the community of detroit through the combinedefforts of businesses, foundations and individuals to provide fullthanksgiving meals to low-income households who are not financially able toprovide a thanksgiving…
Provide volunteers to assist people in need (such as widows) and organizations in need (such as churches) with repairs and maintenance of homes and buildings.
Friendship house meets the basic needs of low income residents of hamtramck, mi. this assistance includes food, clothing, baby supplies and school supplies.
To work with churches around michigan to honor god through collaborative services with food, games, live worship, biblical teaching, prayer, response time, and small groups.
Improve health, instill humanity and inspire hope.
Family network desires to serve the greater wyoming, mi area by providing food, resources and services to people in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forgotten Harvest Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Why Wouldn't We Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 57 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 GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND HOPE ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN RED SOX ↗
- Who funds HOSTEL DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Kids Coalition Against Hunger ↗
- Who funds LIFE REMODELED ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND COUNTY PIONEER AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds A HOLE IN THE ROOF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUILDUP STEAM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS ↗
- Who funds US FOR BELIZE FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH & ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WHY WOULDN'T WE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Martin Memorial Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 June & Cecil McDole 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.
- Us for Belize Foundation for Research & Environmental Education Inc — 62% of income from government
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.
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