· Private foundation
The McLoughlin Family 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 $10k9 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $208k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR LADY OF THE LAKE SCHOOLS | $35,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $20,779 |
| LORY'S PLACE | $20,000 |
| CASS COUNTY CASA | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN | $15,000 |
| UNDERGROUND RAILROAD | $15,000 |
| FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVAL INC | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT OF ST JOSEPH INC | $10,250 |
| THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES | $10,000 |
| CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $10,000 |
| READINESS CENTER | $10,000 |
| CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $10,000 |
| DOMESTIC & SEXUAL ABUSE SERVICES | $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, $259k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 24% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- CCCASS COUNTY CASA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $189k · revenue +5%
- CCCASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC8× · 2017–2025 · $129k · revenue +50%
- FQFRENCH QUARTER FESTIVALS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- SMSouthwestern Michigan Collegeone grant, 2021 · $86k
- SMSouthwest Michigan Collegeone grant, 2020 · $30k
- URUnderground Railroad Societyone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
To provide compassionate in-home skilled nursing care and supportive resources for those affected by cancer and related illnesses in southwest michigan.
Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
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To strengthen, nuture and empower children and families for a brighter future by providing programs that preserve the dignity and enhance the well-being of families throughout michigan's upper peninsula, in a caring, compassionate and…
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To advocate for, educate, and assist our target populations. our services address the needs of many different people, but we continue to target our services to older adults and persons with disabilities.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Michigan and the most unlike its peers is The Fund for American Studies. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 61 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 CASS COUNTY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVALS INC ↗
- Who funds READINESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT OF ST JOSEPH INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ABUSE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CASSOPOLIS MAIN STREET ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BERRIEN AND CASS INC ↗
- Who funds BERRIEN COUNTY COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Therapeutic Equestrian Center ↗
- Who funds Hospice at Home Inc ↗
- Who funds Asheville GreenWorks ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CITY PARK ↗
- Who funds NILES-BUCHANAN MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds MI LIFE IN NUMBERS ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest MI ↗
- Who funds BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF CASS COUNTY INC ↗
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: Berrien Community Foundation Inc · The Pokagon Fund Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Degroot Family Foundation · United Way of Southwest Michigan · Whirlpool Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Wood Foundation Inc · Hanson Family Foundation · Bill Nygren Foundation · The Covia 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 McLoughlin 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.
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