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The Mignon Sherwood Delano Fund at a glance

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The Mignon Sherwood Delano Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$195k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$354kFood & Nutrition$258kArts & Culture$164kHealth$115kReligion$86kYouth Development$37kHousing & Shelter$29kEducation$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $126k
$7,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS S E$17,000
CONGREGATION KITCHEN$15,000
ALLEGAN COUNTY FOOD PANTRY$12,000
PROJECT HOPE OF NE ALLEGAN COUNTY$12,000
ALLEGAN HOMELESS SOLUTIONS$10,000
WINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE INC$10,000
RED HORSE CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE$10,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$10,000
GOOD SAMARITANS BLESSED SACRAMENT$10,000
HUNGRY FOR CHRIST$10,000
GOOD HANDS PLAINWELL$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING: $10k → 8%MARTIN AREA RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 10%RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING: $8k → 8%RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING: $8k → 8%CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS S E: $20k → 10%CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS S E: $20k → 10%CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS S E: $17k → 10%CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS S E: $13k → 10%ALLEGAN HOMELESS SOLUTIONS: $12k → 10%ALLEGAN HOMELESS SOLUTIONS: $10k → 10%CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS S E: $7k → 10%RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $15k → 10%RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $15k → 10%RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $13k → 10%WINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE INC: $10k → 10%WINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE INC: $10k → 10%WINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE INC: $10k → 10%WINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE INC: $10k → 10%SYLVIA'S PLACE: $8k → 10%SYLVIA'S PLACE: $6k → 10%WINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE INC: $5k → 10%SYLVIA'S PLACE: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 41 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
22

Total granted

$1.0M
$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+22%

Still filing today

59%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureAnimalsHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RT
    RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER
    4× · 2020–2023 · $61k · revenue +10%
  • AC
    ALLEGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $61k · revenue +58% · 49% of their budget
  • WO
    WINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • FI
    Fell in love farm
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -6%
  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD BABY CLOSET
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
  • AC
    Associated Church: A Baby's Closet
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Severe Weather Network Livingston County

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…

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2
The Refuge Homeless Shelter of Lapeer County

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.

Housing & Shelter
3
Michigan House of Hope

Provide temporary housing

Housing & Shelter
4
Harbor Country Mission

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…

Human Services
5
Haven Missionary Homes

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

Religion
6
Hope Hospitality and Warming Center Inc

Hope provides safe and judgment-free shelter, innovative programs, and public advocacy to end homelessness.

Human Services
7
Harbor Country Emergency Food Pantry Inc

Meet emergency needs in Southwest Michigan

Food & Nutrition
8
Share the Warmth of Hillsdale County

To provide a warm safe place during michigans frigid winter months

Human Services
9
The Pantry

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
Area Churches Together in One Netwo

Our goal is to minister to and help meet the needs of individuals and families of the dowagiac michigan area.

Religion
11
Kewaunee County Food Pantry Inc

Provide food to low income individuals

Food & Nutrition
12
Lending Hands of Michigan Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 64 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLEGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $61,143 · OtherALLEGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYPROJECT HOPE OF NE ALLEGAN COUNTY: $46,000 · OtherPROJECT HOPE OF NE ALLEGAN COUNTYHands of Grace Food Pantry: $38,900 · OtherHands of Grace Food PantryST VINCENT DE PAUL: $38,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAULIndividual grant recipient: $36,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALLEGAN COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $36,000 · OtherALLEGAN COUNTY FOOD PANTRYGOOD HANDS PLAINWELL: $32,000 · OtherGOOD SAMARITANS BLESSED SACRAMENT: $28,000 · OtherARC OF ALLEGAN COUNTY: $27,523 · OtherCHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC: $23,000 · OtherSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $22,704 · Other+32 more: $257,112 · Other+32 moreCHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS SE: $77,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS SERENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $61,150 · Human ServicesRENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING C…WINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesWINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE & PA…RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE: $34,000 · Human ServicesRESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR E…ALLEGAN HOMELESS SOLUTIONS: $29,325 · Human ServicesALLEGAN HOMELESS SOLUTIONSSYLVIA'S PLACE: $17,883 · Human ServicesSYLVIA'S PLACEMARTIN AREA RESOURCE CENTER: $9,500 · Human ServicesHUNGRY FOR CHRIST: $44,500 · Food & NutritionHUNGRY FOR…CONGREGATIONAL KITCHEN: $40,000 · Food & NutritionCONGREGATI…KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $18,000 · Food & NutritionKIDS' FOOD…HAND2HAND: $13,000 · Food & NutritionHAND2HANDSAUGATUCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $22,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CHORUS: $3,598 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFell in love farm: $15,000 · AnimalsWISHBONE PET RESCUE ALLIANCE: $13,500 · AnimalsODC NETWORK: $6,677 · AnimalsHOLLAND FREE HEALTH CLINIC: $20,000 · HealthWINGS HOME: $12,027 · HealthCAMP KIDWELL: $28,586 · Youth Development
Other$646,382Human Services$283,858Food & Nutrition$115,500Arts & Culture$51,598Animals$35,177Health$32,027Youth Development$28,586

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS SE: $77,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetRENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $61,150 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetALLEGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $61,143 over 5y, 49% of budgetWINGS OF HOPE HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHUNGRY FOR CHRIST: $44,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONGREGATIONAL KITCHEN: $40,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetRESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE: $34,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetALLEGAN HOMELESS SOLUTIONS: $29,325 over 3y, 25% of budgetCAMP KIDWELL: $28,586 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetARC OF ALLEGAN COUNTY: $27,523 over 6y, 13% of budgetSAUGATUCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $22,704 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $22,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHOLLAND FREE HEALTH CLINIC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSYLVIA'S PLACE: $17,883 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFell in love farm: $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBEAUTIFY PULLMAN: $14,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetWISHBONE PET RESCUE ALLIANCE: $13,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHAND2HAND: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS HOME: $12,027 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMARTIN AREA RESOURCE CENTER: $9,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetODC NETWORK: $6,677 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALLEGAN COUNTY LEGAL ASSISTANCE CTR: $4,777 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetDESIGN STREET: $4,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE LAKESHORE COMMUNITY CHORUS: $3,598 over 2y, 16% of budgetLove Your Neighbor of West Michigan: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMITTEN CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 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 ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Allegan County Co…Perrigo Company Chari…Allegan County United…The Community Foundat…Greater Ottawa County…Heart of West Michiga…Lakeshore Advantage C…Feeding America West …Consumers Energy Foun…The Pfizer Foundation…John and Judy Spoelho…Raymond James Charita…
The Allegan County Community FoundationMI45.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Mignon Sherwood Delano Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mignon Sherwood Delano Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Mignon Sherwood Delano Fund?

    Find your warmest path to The Mignon Sherwood Delano Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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