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Harvey Memorial Foundation

Saginaw, MI · EIN 38-6072427. Reported 30 grants totalling $31,120 to 24 recipients across tax years 2024-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$31,120granted, 2024-2025
24recipients, as named on its returns
38%of grantees funded again the next year
$378,705assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Harvey Memorial Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $1,225; the smallest was $200 and the largest $2,098. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
14 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
16 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Old Town Christian OutreachSaginaw, MI$3,675222025
Saginaw Community FoundationSaginaw, MI$3,000222025
Amazing Grace Animal RescueSaginaw, MI$2,598222025
Cherry Land Humane SocietyTraverse City, MI$2,049112025
The Village Community Development CorpDetroit, MI$2,049112025
Castle Museum of Saginaw CountySaginaw, MI$1,944222025
Covenant Healthcare FoundationSaginaw, MI$1,500112024
Urban Youth Racquet Sports FoundationSaginaw, MI$1,500222025
Big Brothers Big SisterTraverse City, MI$1,225112024
Veterans in CrisisSaginaw, MI$1,225112024
Womens Resource CenterTraverse City, MI$1,225112024
My Michigan Saginaw FoundationMidland, MI$1,025112025
Read Assn of SaginawSaginaw, MI$1,025112025
Zion Lutheran ChurchBay City, MI$1,025112025
Japanese Cultural CenterSaginaw, MI$1,000222025
Childrens Grief CenterMidland, MI$919112024
Michigan Heroes MuseumFrankenmuth, MI$919112024
Michigan State University of Vet MedEast Lansing, MI$919112024
Rescue Ministries of Mid-MiSaginaw, MI$598112025
East Side Soup KitchenSaginaw, MI$500112025
Pit & BalconySaginaw, MI$500112025
City Rescue Mission of SaginawSaginaw, MI$300112024
Dow Bay Area Family YMCABay City, MI$200112024
Underground RailroadSaginaw, MI$200112024

6 of 24 (25%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 38%, across 1 year-to-year transition. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

Plus 46 grants to individuals totalling $37,973 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 11 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Arts & Culture
3 grants
Animal Welfare
2 grants
Religion
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202416$14,726$919
202514$16,394$1,025

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Saginaw, MI
$20K
Traverse City, MI
$4K
Detroit, MI
$2K
Midland, MI
$2K
Bay City, MI
$1K
Frankenmuth, MI
$919
East Lansing, MI
$919

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Saginaw Community Foundation6 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund5 shared recipientsWallace & Irene Bronner Family4 shared recipientsConsumers Energy Foundation3 shared recipientsMorley Foundation3 shared recipientsWm Mcnally Family Foundation3 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Michigan.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Harvey Memorial Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 508 Ardussi Avenue, Saginaw, MI, 48602. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 38-6072427 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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