How much does The Pyle Foundation give?

The Pyle Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $15,788 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does The Pyle Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (24%), Arts & Culture (23%), Religion (16%).

Who are The Pyle Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Mackinac Center ($19k), Mayflower Congregational Church ($14k), Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association ($5k).

Does The Pyle Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Pyle Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Pyle Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, The Meijer Foundation, Frey Foundation.

Where is The Pyle Foundation based?

The Pyle Foundation is based in MI.

The Pyle Foundation

The Pyle Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Pyle 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.

$16k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$6k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Public Benefit$21kArts & Culture$20kReligion$14kEnvironment$9kHuman Services$6kEducation$6kScience & Tech$2kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY	$6,000
MENOMINEE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION	$2,500
SALVATION ARMY	$1,038
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
MAYFLOWER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH	$1,000
BRIDGE MICHIGAN	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE	$1,000
FREDERIK MEIJER GARDENS	$450
MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART	$300
SWEET HOUSE FOUNDATION	$250
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY	$150
GRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA	$100

02The need

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 (FY22–23, $700) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$70k · 28 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$70k

$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+18%

Still filing today

64%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther

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

MC
MACKINAC CENTER
7× · 2019–2025 · $19k · revenue +64%
GL
GREAT LAKES LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ASSOCIATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $5k · revenue +10%
GR
GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION
5× · 2019–2023 · $1k · revenue +217%

Funded once

MS
MICHIGAN SHIPWRECK RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2019 · $2k
CP
CK PIER BADGER CAMP 1
one grant, 2021 · $700
MG
MEIJER GARDENS
one grant, 2019 · $500

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.

Michigan Legacy Art Park

Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.

Arts & Culture

Six Rivers Land Conservancy Fka Six Rivers Regional Land Conservancy

To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special

Environment

Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy

The mission of gtrlc is to protect significant natural, scenic and farm lands and advance land stewardship now and for future generations.

Environment

Legacy Land Conservancy

Safeguard southern michigan's land and water to support diverse, resilient, and thriving communities - forever

Environment

Heckscher Museum

Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.

Arts & Culture

Midwest Museum of Natural History

Mission statement of the midwest museum: encouraging our community's appreciation of natural history using shared experiences through collections, exhibits, and education.

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Leelanau Conservancy

To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.

Environment

Jefferson National Parks Association

Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.

Arts & Culture

The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education

Marquette County Historical Society

Preserving the history of our area brings an understanding to the past and present, and provides a guide for the future. we not only maintain exhibits, artifacts and a research library, we provide a forum for engaging the community and…

Arts & Culture

Missouri Historical Society

The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…

Arts & Culture

Grand Rapids Public Museum Foundation

The primary role of the grand rapids public museum foundation is fundraising for the grand rapids public museum, but it also has overall responsibility for the current and long-term viability of the organization.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Houghton County Historical Society. 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

37 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. 37 of the 66 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/37

Grantees still filing

28/37

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$42,428Public Benefit$19,450Arts & Culture$12,320Education$6,350Environment$3,800Human Services$700Housing & Shelter$400

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.

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.

Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI31.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Frey Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Korff Foundation · Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · The Sebastian Foundation · Dick and Betsy Devos Family Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Community Foundation for Muskegon County

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 Pyle Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pyle Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home