· Private foundation
Wm McNally Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $263k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Covenant Healthcare Found | $100,000 |
| Children's Zoo at Celebration Square | $100,000 |
| Saginaw Community Foundation | $60,134 |
| Wellspring Lutheran Services | $50,000 |
| Hunger Solutions Center | $25,000 |
| Camp Restore Detroit | $25,000 |
| Great Lakes Bay Health Centers | $25,000 |
| Hospital Hospitality House | $22,500 |
| St Lorenz Lutheran Church and School | $20,000 |
| Major Chords for Minors | $20,000 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of the GLBR | $20,000 |
| Faith Lutheran Church and Childcare | $20,000 |
| Historical Society of Bridgeport | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Saginaw Future | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 10 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $209k 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
- CRCamp Rd Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $225k · revenue +371%
- MCMAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS9× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +25%
- HHHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SAGINAW9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF HOYT PARK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SISVRC Industries Incone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -20%
- CMCENTRAL MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
The historical society of saginaw county is committed to serve the community by telling the continuing story of the people of the saginaw region through exploration, preservation and presentation of their historical and cultural heritage.
Support library activities through materials and services
To empower and support children and families in reaching their full potential and becoming self-sufficient, saving lives and creating futures through educational enrichment and shelter services.
Samaritan homes inc. seeks to provide affordable housing and residential services for all persons with physical, emotional, mental, developmental, learning, economic, and social disabilities including persons of low and moderate income.
Good samaritan is committed to ending poverty and homelessness, in partnership with our community, by leading the way in providing affordable housing solutions and supportive services.
The mission of saginaw county community action committee, inc. is to fully participate in the development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs to serve low-income communities. the organization will serve as a proactive and…
The mission of the partnership is driving workforce solutions through community partnership. the partnership plans to accomplish its mission by facilitating activities for career preparation, school-to-work and school improvement.
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.
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saginaw Future Inc and the most unlike its peers is Special Needs Vision Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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. 39 of the 101 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 Camp Rd Inc ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MAJOR CHORDS FOR MINORS ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SAGINAW ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Bay Health Centers ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHILD & FAMILY SERVICE OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC ↗
- Who funds TEMPLEARTS ↗
- Who funds SVRC Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCK THE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MID-MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ALMA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT COUNCIL GREAT LAKES BAY REGION ↗
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: Saginaw Community Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Frank N Andersen Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Morley Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Alice E Turner Memorial Trust · Boutell Memorial Fund · Yeo & Yeo Foundation · Harvey Randall Wickes Foundation · Bierlein Companies 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 Wm McNally Family Foundation 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.
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