· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ADA BIBLE CHURCH | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| SOUTHERN LITTLE LEAGUE | $12,000 |
| WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $12,000 |
| ADA BIBLE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF WMI | $10,000 |
| MONA LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| BE CAFE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH | $5,000 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- JCJOB CREATORS NETWORK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +14%
- TSTHE SEMINAR NETWORK TRUSTone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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.
How this is measured
56 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. 56 of the 129 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 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 BIGHEART CENTER FOR BRAIN CHANGE FRAZIER ↗
- Who funds BE CAFE ↗
- Who funds GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAS ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
- Who funds MONA LAKE WATERSHED COMMISSION DBA MONA LAKE WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Missad Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Missad Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Franciscan Life Center Network Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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