· Public charity
The Right Place Inc
The right place is the economic development organization that drives current and long-term economic prosperity in west michigan.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $808k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+8 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF HASTINGS | $474,500 |
| CITY OF HOLLAND | $400,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM | $384,837 |
| COMSTOCK HCV LLC | $332,617 |
| HOLLAND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT LLC | $281,750 |
| FANS OF VALLEY FIELD | $254,222 |
| TRYGON INVESTMENTS FUND 8 LLC | $253,504 |
| HITACHI INDUSTRIAL HOLDINGS AMERICAS INC | $250,000 |
| CASCADE CHARTER TOWNSHIP | $225,000 |
| GREATER MUSKEGON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | $224,550 |
| S J KINGMA & ASSOCIATES LLC | $192,185 |
| GUN LAKE INVESTMENTS LLC | $170,000 |
| CITY OF IONIA | $150,000 |
| ABER INDUSTRIAL LLC | $150,000 |
| CITY OF BIG RAPIDS | $147,564 |
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 (FY20–24, $366k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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
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 +67% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.
95 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 89 since wound down; 55 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, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MAMUSKEGON AREA FIRST2× · 2022–2025 · $234k · revenue +28%
- BLBLUE LAKE FINE ARTS CAMP2× · 2020–2021 · $32k · revenue +331%
- WMWyoming Moose Lodge 7632× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- GIGOTION INCone grant, 2024 · $24M
- VOVILLAGE OF SHELBYone grant, 2024 · $653k
- MCMECOSTA COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $543k · revenue -81% · 87% of their budget
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 Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
To promote lenawee county as a destination providing contemporary amenities to transient guests in a historical and cultural setting for the economic benefit of the community.
To present west michigan audiences with high quality broadway productions and to provide student arts education programs, enriching the community through professional performing arts, as well as to expand the diversity of theatre in the…
To cultivate a thriving and connected startup ecosystem in nw lower michigan.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
to stimulate economic development, attract new businesses, grow established businesses and support entrepreneurial endeavors in Lenawee County
The west coast chamber exists to be a catalyst for business growth and development, a convener of leaders and influencers, and a champion for a thriving community.
To operate exclusively for the promotion of civic action and social welfare by promoting the common good and general welfare of the residents of, and visitors to, the State of Michigan; To support public policies on the federal, state, and…
To promote business and community growth and development and prepserve the competitive enterprise system of business.
How this is measured
61 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. 61 of the 1,266 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
Open a dossier: Start Garden Inc · Steelcase Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Greater Grand Rapids Chamber Foundation · Corewell Health Group Return · Krw Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Small Business Association of Michigan
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Right Place Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Right Place Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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