· Private foundation
The Michel 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Maltz Theatre | $3,600 |
| Planned Parenthood | $2,500 |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank | $2,500 |
| Voteorg | $2,200 |
| HFLA of Northeastern Ohio | $1,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Dermatology Foundation | $1,500 |
| Heifer Project | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,400 |
| KIPP Team & Family | $1,400 |
| Coalition for the Homeless | $1,400 |
| City Harvest | $1,400 |
| City Meals on Wheels | $1,400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 18 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +80%- DFDERMATOLOGY FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +12%
THE DOE FUND INC8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- CMCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +453%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +74%- JSJ STREETone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +22%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
With offices in washington d.c. and 25 states and 1.5 million supporters and activists, common cause works to advance democracy reforms at federal, state, and local levels, through drafting model legislation, lobbying, public engagement,…
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…
Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.
Empowering organizations and individuals globally with open ml and eo data, standards and tools to address the world's most critical international development challenges.
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VOTEORG ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds US VOTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DERMATOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHEN WE ALL VOTE ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds GRAMEEN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Michel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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