· Private foundation
The Mignon Sherwood Delano Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS S E | $17,000 |
| CONGREGATION KITCHEN | $15,000 |
| ALLEGAN COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $12,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE OF NE ALLEGAN COUNTY | $12,000 |
| GOOD HANDS PLAINWELL | $10,000 |
| ALLEGAN HOMELESS SOLUTIONS | $10,000 |
| RED HORSE CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $10,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITANS BLESSED SACRAMENT | $10,000 |
| WINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE INC | $10,000 |
| HUNGRY FOR CHRIST | $10,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $7,568 |
| HANDS OF GRACE FOOD PANTRY | $7,000 |
| WMU SCHOOL OF THEATER AND DANCE | $6,700 |
| SAFE HARBOR CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $6,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $233k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% 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.
41 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- RTRENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER4× · 2020–2023 · $61k · revenue +10%
- ACALLEGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2020–2024 · $61k · revenue +58% · 49% of their budget
- WOWINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- FIFell in love farmone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -6%
- ACAssociated Church: A Baby's Closetone grant, 2020 · $12k
- HOHands of Grace Food Pantryone grant, 2020 · $12k
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 Severe Weather Network (SWN) partners with community organizations, agencies, and faith communities to provide emergency, overnight refuge during the winter months for people experiencing homelessness in Livingston County. SWN also…
Our mission is to help people stay in their homes and help those without homes. we are not a warming shelter, but rather a program. we give people a hand up not a handout.
Provide temporary housing
Over 59,000 pieces of free clothing and household items were placed directly into the hands of the neighbors who needed them most. More than 1,000 furniture items were given to families transitioning into safe stable housing--kitchen…
Haven missionary homes exists to provide a free place for missionaries sent from west michigan to stay when they return to the united states where they can be refreshed and restored to their full potential in ministry
Hope provides safe and judgment-free shelter, innovative programs, and public advocacy to end homelessness.
Meet emergency needs in Southwest Michigan
To provide a warm safe place during michigans frigid winter months
To provide a food pantry in southeast kent county, michigan serving some of the most impoverished communities in southeast kent county. to provide holistic aid to our neighbors in need, supplying them with the food and personal care items…
Our goal is to minister to and help meet the needs of individuals and families of the dowagiac michigan area.
Provide food to low income individuals
The mission of lending hands is to lend various kinds of home medical and other related equipment, for free and on a temporary basis, to anyone living in our service area without regard to age, race, sex, creed, income or disability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fell in love farm. 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 20 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 68 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 CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS SE ↗
- Who funds RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALLEGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGRY FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATIONAL KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds ALLEGAN HOMELESS SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds CAMP KIDWELL ↗
- Who funds ARC OF ALLEGAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAUGATUCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND FREE HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds SYLVIA'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds Fell in love farm ↗
- Who funds BEAUTIFY PULLMAN ↗
- Who funds WISHBONE PET RESCUE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HAND2HAND ↗
- Who funds WINGS HOME ↗
- Who funds MARTIN AREA RESOURCE CENTER ↗
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: The Allegan County Community Foundation · Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation · Allegan County United Way · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Greater Ottawa County United Way · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Lakeshore Advantage Corporation · Feeding America West Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Mignon Sherwood Delano Fund 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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