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Thomas a Mackey Charitable Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$40k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$40,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 12
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$163k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Thomas a Mackey Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
HealthCommunity ImprovementAnimalsRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$40k0%
FY20213$102k33%
FY202010$89k50%
FY20198$123k50%
FY201812$31k58%
FY20177$45kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Animals$373kEducation$24kHealth$15kCommunity Improvement$12kRecreation & Sports$3kHuman Services$1kSocial Science$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thomas a Mackey Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGrosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society: $160,545 over 5y, 15% of budgetDetroit Zoological Society: $120,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMichigan Humane Society: $89,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity Liggett School: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHenry Ford Health St John Foundation: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBelle Isle Conservancy: $10,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLittle Traverse Bay Humane Society: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNeighborhood Club: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetServices for Older Citizens Inc Dba the Helm at the Boll Life Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNoble Gorilla Reserve Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBeyond Basics: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHenry Ford Health System: $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKevins Song a Nonprofit Community Education on Depression & Suicide: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAdopt an Angel: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBayview Yacht Club Foundation: $400 over 2y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI29.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · S Gary Spicer Sr Foundation · Doris J & Donald L Duchene Foundation C/O David Findling · Lynn & Paul Alandt Foundation · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Joanne Nicolay Foundation · Charles R Whitney Charitable Foundation · Edsel & Eleanor Ford House · Raymond M & Jane E Cracchiolo Foundation · Thomas and Carol Cracchiolo Foundation · Mary and George Herbert Zimmerman Foundation (Att Joan C Skrzyniarz)

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.

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How do I get to Thomas a Mackey Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Thomas a Mackey Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Thomas a Mackey Charitable Foundation

How much does Thomas a Mackey Charitable Foundation give?
Thomas a Mackey Charitable Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $40,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Thomas a Mackey Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Animals (87%), Education (6%), Health (4%).
Who are Thomas a Mackey Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society ($161k), Detroit Zoological Society ($120k), Michigan Humane Society ($89k).
Does Thomas a Mackey Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thomas a Mackey Charitable 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 Thomas a Mackey Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, S Gary Spicer Sr Foundation, Doris J & Donald L Duchene Foundation C/O David Findling.
Where is Thomas a Mackey Charitable Foundation based?
Thomas a Mackey Charitable Foundation is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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