· Private foundation
William R Lathers 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| OCEANA CNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGY | $10,000 |
| OCEANA CNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGY | $10,000 |
| OCEANA CNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGY | $7,000 |
| OCEANA CNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGY | $5,000 |
| OCEANA CNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGY | $4,000 |
| LUDINGTON SCHOOLS RESOURCE CENTER | $3,000 |
| OCEANA MASON COUNTY INMATE & | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 2 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2019–2023 · $37k · revenue +79%- FAFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +27%
- LDLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND6× · 2019–2024 · $23k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- OCOCEANA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGINGgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +32%
- GTGOLDEN TOWNSHIPone grant, 2019 · $25k
- OOCHGSone grant, 2022 · $23k
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.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Hospice of Michigan, Inc. meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
The mission of leadingage is to be the trusted voice for aging. our 6,000+ members and partners include nonprofit organizations representing the entire field of aging services, 38 state associations, hundreds of businesses, consumer…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 59 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds OCEANA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WELL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LADDER INC ↗
- Who funds DEGAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LADDER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES OVERCOMING VIOLENT ENCO ↗
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: Community Foundation for Muskegon County · Community Foundation for Oceana County · Consumers Energy Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William R Lathers Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William R Lathers Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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