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The Morey Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $596,990 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $636,590 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $39,600 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k22 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $536k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mackinac Center for Public Policy | $210,000 |
| MyMichigan Health Foundation | $200,000 |
| Isabella County Youth and Farm Fair | $126,123 |
| Father Maloney's Boys & Girls Haven | $12,000 |
| Morey Courts Recreation Center | $5,000 |
| Mt. Pleasant Chapter of SPEBSQSA, Inc. | $5,000 |
| Mid Michigan Community College | $5,000 |
| Mt. Pleasant Area Community Foundation | $5,000 |
| The Center of Anna Maria Island | $5,000 |
| Anna Maria Elementary School PTO | $5,000 |
| Life Choices of Central MI | $2,500 |
| Mt. Pleasant Discovery Museum | $2,500 |
| Blessings in a Backpack | $2,000 |
| Hawthorne School Parent Advisory Council | $1,500 |
| Dreams With Wings, Inc. | $1,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of your 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.
22 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $228k 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
- MCMACKINAC CENTER4× · 2019–2023 · $930k · revenue +64%
- AMANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER2× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +112%
- CCCOMMUNITY CANCER SERVICES INC3× · 2019–2023 · $3k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- COCRC of Isabella Countyone grant, 2021 · $401k
- MMMID MICHIGAN COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $258k
- MCMOREY COURTS RECREATION CENTERone grant, 2019 · $105k
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.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
The organization's mission is to promote a healthy business climate for its members and all businesses in macomb county, michigan.
Member association whose purpose is to promote common good and welfare of its members in their activities in the profession of surveying and to promote and maintain high standards of professional practices and ethics.
Creating healthy communities - together
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
To ensure the delivery of excellent care that advances health outcomes.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Creating healthy communities - together
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mymichigan Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Smooth Surfaces. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 59 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 MACKINAC CENTER ↗
- Who funds MYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd ↗
- Who funds ANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Gallatin Valley Farm to School ↗
- Who funds Mount Pleasant Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds Anna Maria Elementary PTO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CANCER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Northwood University ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL TREATMENT SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COMPASSION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds John H Goodrow Fund ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds MT PLEASANT AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds DREAMS WITH WINGS 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: Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd · Fabiano Foundation · United Way of Greater Central Michigan · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Morey 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.
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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