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Macchia Family Foundation

Naples, FL · EIN 81-0730656. Reported 35 grants totalling $139,750 to 35 recipients across tax years 2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$4,000median grant
$139,750granted, 2025
35recipients, as named on its returns
$2,752,715assets, 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. Macchia Family 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 $4,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $5,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $10,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
18 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
15 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant

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
Spring Arbor UniversitySpring Arbor, MI$10,000112025
Aware IncJackson, MI$8,000112025
Big Brothers Big SistersJackson, MI$6,750112025
Wheelchairs 4 KidsTarpon Springs, FL$6,000112025
Catholic Charities of JacksonJackson, MI$5,000112025
David Lawrence CenterNaples, FL$5,000112025
Florida Golf Coast UniversityFort Myers, FL$5,000112025
Foundation Building ChurchChelsea, MI$5,000112025
Freedom Waters FoundationNaples, FL$5,000112025
Hope KitchenJackson, MI$5,000112025
Isaiah's HubJackson, MI$5,000112025
Jackson School of ArtsJackson, MI$5,000112025
Lumen ChristiJackson, MI$5,000112025
Myplace JacksonJackson, MI$5,000112025
Shop Rat FoundationJackson, MI$5,000112025
St Matthew's HouseNaples, FL$5,000112025
Blackman Twp Police Officers AssocJackson, MI$4,000112025
Jackson Symphony OrchestraJackson, MI$4,000112025
St Mary's SchoolJackson, MI$4,000112025
Cascades Humane SocietyJackson, MI$3,000112025
Chapters Health FoundationTampa, FL$3,000112025
Compassionate Ministries of JacksonJackson, MI$3,000112025
Jackson Interfaith ShelterJackson, MI$3,000112025
Maggie's PlacePheonix, AZ$3,000112025
School Lunch MattersNaples, FL$3,000112025
Bailey Family FoundationJackson, MI$2,500112025
Future Citizens IncNaples, FL$2,500112025
Jackson Friendly HomeJackson, MI$2,500112025
John George HomeJackson, MI$2,500112025
Our Daily Bread Food PantryMarco Island, FL$2,000112025
Special Olympics FloridaClermont, FL$2,000112025
Wgcu Public MediaFort Myers, FL$2,000112025
Angel's Touch RescueFort Myers, FL$1,500112025
Jackson Public SchoolsJackson, MI$1,000112025
Rives ChurchRives Junction, MI$500112025
Plus 4 grants to individuals totalling $392,357 -- 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 19 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.

Human Services
6 grants
Education
2 grants
Recreation & Sports
2 grants
Housing & Shelter
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants
Mental Health
1 grant
Animal Welfare
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Where its money goes

68% of its giving went to organizations in Michigan. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Michigan
$95K
Florida
$42K
Arizona
$3K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsJackson Community Foundation12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc11 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust10 shared recipientsConsumers Energy Foundation10 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $4,000. 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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Macchia Family 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: 4353 Caldera Circle, Naples, FL, 34119. 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 81-0730656 · 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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