· Private foundation
The Michael F McManus 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 $10k11 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $301k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPARKLE | $100,000 |
| MAKE A DIFFERENCE RESCUE | $91,000 |
| RACQUET UP DETROIT | $60,000 |
| WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| ANGELS PLACE | $20,000 |
| HOLY ANGELS SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LIFELINE CHILDRENS SERVICES | $15,000 |
| THE CRU FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| ST MARY CATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BLUE STARSERVICE DOGS | $10,000 |
| CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| THE HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE | $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, $652k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 21 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k 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
- MAMake A Difference Rescue Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $887k · revenue +511% · 72% of their budget
- APANGELS' PLACE9× · 2017–2025 · $592k · revenue +84%
- RURACQUET UP DETROIT9× · 2017–2025 · $343k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- CCCHRIST CHURCH CRANBROOKone grant, 2020 · $13k
- ICInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSAone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +9%
- FWFAITH WORKS MICHIGANone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -24%
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.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
Noah project is a no-kill animal shelter dedicated to the rescue of abused, abandoned and unwanted animals. its mission is to not allow a healthy, adoptable dog or cat that is accepted at the center to be destroyed.
We honor life through donation.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
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…
The new foster care will show the love of jesus christ by making a measurable, meaningful, and transformative change in the michigan foster care system and in the lives of those who have experienced foster care by: 1) providing direct…
Helping families and neighborhoods succeed by providing a place and support to assure kids ages 0-5 are school ready and families are healthy and stable.
We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
Friends of michigan animals rescue's mission is to protect animals and residents by promoting a safe and healthy environment for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifeline Children's Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 72 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 Make A Difference Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' PLACE ↗
- Who funds Westside Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds RACQUET UP DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Sparklefaith Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds Eton Academy ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MARY'S MANTLE ↗
- Who funds Mother and Unborn Baby Care Inc ↗
- Who funds Penrickton Center for Blind Children ↗
- Who funds JUDSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AGAINST TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH WORKS MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
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 Barton Malow Foundation · Catholic Foundation of Michigan · Eagles for Children · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Mihalich Charitable Foundation · Seizert Family Foundation · Somerset Collection Charitable Foundation · Lula C Wilson Trust Xxxxx3003 · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · The Kresge 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 Michael F McManus 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.