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The Meijer 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.

$7.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
67
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $638k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+10 grants · $4.0M
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$195M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES$800,000
MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$666,667
MICHIGAN PHYSICAL FITNESS HEALTH AND SPORTS FOUNDATION$500,000
GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION$333,334
GERALD R FORD FOUNDATION$333,333
MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES$333,333
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$300,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY - MICHIGAN CHAPTER$250,000
MICHIGAN TRAIL FUND$250,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GRAND RAPIDS YOUTH COMMONWEALTH$250,000
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER$240,000
VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE$215,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN$200,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS$166,667
THE FERRIS FOUNDATION$150,000
02The need
02

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $110k → 21%TRI-CITIES FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 8%ALPHA GRAND RAPIDS: $10k → 11%THE STOREHOUSE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $40k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

1
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
2
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
3
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
4
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
5
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
6
Michigan Science Center

The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.

Education
7
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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8
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
9
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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10
Center for Family Health

The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.

Health
11
Michigan Legacy Art Park

Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.

Arts & Culture
12
The Center for Michigan

For all state residents, diverse civic stakeholders and philanthropy, the center for michigan (the center) and its nonprofit newsrooms - bridge michigan and bridgedetroit - make michigan better through high-quality, nonpartisan journalism…

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Humanities Council and the most unlike its peers is The Willard G Pierce and Jessie M Pierce 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 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%7%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr12%34%35–55yr14%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr14%21%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/58
the rest of the field
16%
15,276/96,876

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.

03the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
25/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES — $800,000 · HealthPINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVI…MARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $666,667 · HealthMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL F…Michigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation — $500,000 · HealthMichigan Physical Fitness Health and Sp…VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $220,000 · HealthVAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTEMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN — $200,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGANCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER — $125,000 · Health+2 more — $45,000 · HealthMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES — $333,333 · OtherMEL TROTTER MINISTRIESFERRIS FOUNDATION — $260,000 · OtherFERRIS FOUNDATIONMICHIGAN TRAIL FUND — $250,000 · OtherMICHIGAN TRAIL FUNDTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $250,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GRAND RAPIDS YOUTH COMMONWEALTH — $250,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GRAND RAPIDS YO…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC — $133,333 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY I…UNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE — $100,000 · OtherGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · OtherCHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $93,500 · OtherCenter for US Global Leadership — $100,000 · OtherOTTAWA COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · OtherAMPLIFY GR — $100,000 · Other+15 more — $378,500 · Other+15 moreGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION — $333,333 · EducationGERALD R FOR…OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 · EducationOHIO STATE U…Conductive Learning Center of North America — $60,000 · EducationConductive L…STEM GREENHOUSE INC — $50,000 · EducationSTEM GREENHO…+4 more — $63,000 · Education+4 moreNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER — $240,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL …THE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERI…MICHIGAN HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN …ST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER — $50,000 · Arts & CultureST CECILI…Opera Grand Rapids — $40,000 · Arts & CultureOpera Gra…HOLLAND MUSEUM — $25,000 · Arts & CultureGrandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $15,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20 — $333,334 · PhilanthropyHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $100,000 · PhilanthropyMUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyGreenville Area Community Fnd — $20,000 · PhilanthropyFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS — $216,667 · Housing & ShelterAYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterBEER CITY DOG BISCUITS — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN — $110,000 · Human ServicesSTOREHOUSE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $40,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN - TRI-CITIES MICHIGAN — $25,000 · Human ServicesAlpha Grand Rapids — $10,000 · Human Services
Health$2,556,667Other$2,448,666Education$806,333Arts & Culture$595,000Philanthropy$503,334Housing & Shelter$311,667Human Services$185,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES — $800,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $666,667 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMichigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation — $500,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20 — $333,334 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION — $333,333 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMEL TROTTER MINISTRIES — $333,333 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFERRIS FOUNDATION — $260,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER — $240,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $220,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GRAND RAPIDS — $216,667 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN — $200,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM — $150,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY INC — $133,333 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER — $125,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN — $110,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetOTTAWA COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetAMPLIFY GR — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED METHODIST COMMUNITY HOUSE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCenter for US Global Leadership — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetConductive Learning Center of North America — $60,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetMUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSTEM GREENHOUSE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetFAMILY OUTREACH CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetST CECILIA MUSIC CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSTOREHOUSE OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEXTENDED GRACE — $40,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAYA YOUTH COLLECTIVE — $40,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOpera Grand Rapids — $40,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF WESTERN MI — $35,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSAFE HAVEN MINISTRIES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN - TRI-CITIES MICHIGAN — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLAND MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMID MICHIGAN HONOR FLIGHT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBEER CITY DOG BISCUITS — $25,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetThe Refugee Education Center — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBLANDFORD NATURE CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGreenville Area Community Fnd — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSPECIALIZED LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN AVIATION ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALVIN UNIVERSITY — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Meijer FoundationGrand Rapids Communit…Frey FoundationDouglas & Maria Devos…The Wege FoundationHeart of West Michiga…Cdv5 FoundationSteelcase FoundationConsumers Energy Foun…The Community Foundat…The Sebastian Foundat…The David and Carol V…
The Meijer FoundationMI80.5× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Meijer Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Cdv5 Foundation · Steelcase Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · The Sebastian Foundation · The David and Carol Van Andel Family 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 Meijer 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Meijer Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Meijer Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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