· Private foundation
Timothy and Barbara Michels Family 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $542k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $2,040,000 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WI | $500,000 |
| SPRING CREEK CHURCH | $200,000 |
| ZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY LAKE SCHOOL | $71,500 |
| C2K MINISTRIES | $70,000 |
| CARENET PREGNANCY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE | $50,000 |
| LIFE CHURCH | $50,000 |
| XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BABSON COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 71% 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 +18% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $650k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Cornell University2× · 2020–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +46%- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +18%
- ANAVAIL NYC2× · 2020–2021 · $250k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- NLNORTH LAKE MANAGEMENT DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $250k
- BSBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $233k · revenue +39%
- SOSISTERS OF ST FRANCIS OF ASSISIone grant, 2020 · $150k
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.
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Delivers affordable, accessible, and relevant higher education programs.
See schedule o.drake's mission is to provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. the drake experience is distinguished…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 27 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 Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY LAKE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AVAIL NYC ↗
- Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds C2K MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds PRO-LIFE WISCONSIN EDUCATION TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMED PEOPLE 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: Baird Foundation Inc · Vine and Branches Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Timothy and Barbara Michels Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Timothy and Barbara Michels Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Babson College: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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