· Private foundation
Tua Fred & Irene Michel Charitable Trust
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN FDN POMPANO BEACH | $95,810 |
| BATESVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $20,542 |
| MASONIC HOME OF MISSOURI | $16,435 |
| CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,272 |
| JOHN KNOX VILLAGE OF FLORIDA INC | $8,220 |
| YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $6,164 |
| EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES | $6,164 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES | $6,164 |
| SALEM IN LADUE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $6,164 |
| COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS | $6,164 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $4,110 |
| ST MARK'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $4,110 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $4,110 |
| THE MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $4,110 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $248k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those 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.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- MHMASONIC HOME OF MISSOURI7× · 2019–2025 · $132k · revenue +140%
- JKJOHN KNOX VILLAGE OF FLORIDA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $66k · revenue +40%
- COCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS7× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- PCPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMESone grant, 2025 · $6k
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
St. john's distinctive liberal arts curriculum and educational practices have long given it a highly respected place among american colleges and universities. its strong commitment to collaborative inquiry and to the study of original…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Epworth Children & Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 21 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 MASONIC HOME OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds JOHN KNOX VILLAGE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · 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 Tua Fred & Irene Michel Charitable Trust 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.