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The Missad 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 $10k39 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $62,500 |
| UNIVERSAL FOREST PRODUCTS | $50,000 |
| COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE ECONOMIC CLUB OF GR | $17,500 |
| HOPE COLLEGE FOR BELINDA MISSAD | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ADA BIBLE CHURCH | $15,000 |
| SOUTHERN LITTLE LEAGUE | $12,000 |
| WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $12,000 |
| COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WMI | $10,000 |
| ADA BIBLE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH | $5,000 |
| MONA LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| BE CAFE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY18–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 27 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k 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
- HCHOPE COLLEGE5× · 2018–2025 · $88k · revenue +23%
- MLMONA LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +165%
- JBJOHN BALL ZOO6× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- MFMARY FREE BED FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $63k
- MCMERCATUS CENTER AT GEORGE MASON UNIone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TSTHE SEMINAR NETWORK TRUSTone grant, 2018 · $25k
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 mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
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.
Our mission is to help people to live longer, healthier lives with dignity, and to use all of our resources to give them everything they expect and deserve in comprehensive cardiovascular care for their families and themselves.
Creating healthy communities - together
We, mercy health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health partners is a member of mercy health and trinity health.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
In response to the love of god, the methodist rehabilitation center, is dedicated to the restoration and enhancement of the lives of those we serve. we are committed to excellence and leadership in the delivery of comprehensive…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Munson dialysis center provides renal dialysis services to the residents of northern michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mona Lake Improvement Association. 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 14% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 129 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 HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MONA LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JOB CREATORS NETWORK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DA BLODGETT - ST JOHN'S ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN BALL ZOO ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC LIBRARY FNDN ↗
- Who funds GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIGHEART CENTER FOR BRAIN CHANGE FRAZIER ↗
- Who funds KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAS ↗
- Who funds BE CAFE ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds Mount Jubilee Ministries Inc ↗
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: Ufp Industries Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Jerry & Marcia Tubergen Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · THE PETER and JOAN SECCHIA FAMILY INC · The Meijer Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · John Bouma Sr and Sharon K Bouma 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 Missad 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.
- Franciscan Life Center Network Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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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