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The Mackey 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k13 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $620k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club | $150,000 |
| Flint Children's Museum | $100,000 |
| Motherly Intercession | $80,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $80,000 |
| Carriage Town Ministries | $80,000 |
| St Andrew's Episcopal Church | $70,000 |
| Flint Eastide Mission | $60,000 |
| Food Bank of Eastern MI | $35,000 |
| Young Life of Genesee County | $30,000 |
| Episcopal Relief & Development | $30,000 |
| My Brother's Keeper | $30,000 |
| ECHO | $25,000 |
| Shelter of Flint | $20,000 |
| Crossover Downtown Outreach Ministry | $20,000 |
| Cocoon | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $324k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% of those 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.
31 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TFTHE FLINT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM6× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +85%
- MIMOTHERLY INTERCESSION7× · 2017–2024 · $580k · revenue +127% · 32% of their budget
- CTCarriage Town Ministries6× · 2017–2024 · $520k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- EDEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF OHIOone grant, 2017 · $20k
- PCPOTTER'S CLAY MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +19%
- POPEMBERVILLE OPERA HOUSEone grant, 2018 · $15k
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 flint center for educational excellence is building an educational ecosystem that works for all flint kids by providing programs. research, and advocacy that ensure flint kids, their families, schools, and communities thrive.
Harvest Theatre Co is a professional theatre and training program for Flint youth ages 13-19 years old. We use the theatrical arts to instill confidence, self worth, and discipline in the most vulnerable population of our city. In 2022 we…
Midland's Open Door (MOD) operates two crisis shelters, one for women and children and one for men. MOD's programs are designed to meet the immediate needs of homeless individuals by providing a safe and loving environment where each…
The family abuse shelter of miami county inc., assists victims of domestic violence and homelessness with emergency shelter and supportive services that promote self reliance, dignity and safety.
Mission statement: it is the mission of the family sunshine center to bring help, hope and healing to victims of family violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking through a crisis line, emergency shelter, transitional housing,…
It is the mission of Fresh Start Ministry to be the hands and feet of God by serving others in need in Monroe County. we have a mens and womans shelter and a program to help people get back on there feet
Emergency assistance in the form of food, utilities, rent, etc.
To empower all individuals, families, and communities to live free from domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and interpersonal violence through education, prevention, and intervention.
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carriage Town Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Echo Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 35 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 THE FLINT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MOTHERLY INTERCESSION ↗
- Who funds Carriage Town Ministries ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds SHELTER OF FLINT INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Genesee Area Focus Fund ↗
- Who funds ECHO Inc ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Music ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds POTTER'S CLAY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MOM'S HOUSE INC OF TOLEDO ↗
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 · Nartel Family Foundation · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · Child Welfare Society of Flint · Burroughs Memorial Trust · Merkley Charitable Trust · The Hagerman Foundation · Anna Paulina Foundation · Jennings Memorial Foundation · The Whiting Foundation · Ruth Mott Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Flint
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 Mackey 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.
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