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Hastings Mutual Insurance Company Charitable Foundation

Hastings, MI · EIN 20-2031029. Reported 31 grants totalling $238,173 to 31 organizations across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,400median grant
$238,173granted, 2024
31organizations funded
$4,384,489assets, 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. Hastings Mutual Insurance Company Charitable 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 $3,400. Half of everything it gave fell between $914 and $6,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $62,863. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
8 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
8 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
8 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Pine Rest Christian Mental Health SGrand Rapids, MI$62,863112024
Degage MinistriesGrand Rapids, MI$25,000112024
Safe Haven MinistriesGrand Rapids, MI$25,000112024
Truly Reaching You IncAkron, OH$25,000112024
Brown Hutcherson MinistriesGrand Rapids, MI$15,000112024
Meals on Wheels of Western MichiganGrand Rapids, MI$12,500112024
New City Kids IncGrand Rapids, MI$12,000112024
Interlochen Center for the ArtsInterlochen, MI$6,000112024
The Baldwin Center IncPontiac, MI$6,000112024
Child and Family CharitiesLansing, MI$5,000112024
Community Reconciliation Center IncGrand Rapids, MI$5,000112024
Full Circle FoundationGrosse Pointe Park, MI$5,000112024
Grfd Fire Prevention FoundationGrand Rapids, MI$5,000112024
Make a Wish Foundation of MichiganSouthfield, MI$5,000112024
Wedgewood Christian ServicesGrand Rapids, MI$5,000112024
Moms House of ToledoToledo, OH$3,400112024
Tall Turf MinistriesGrand Rapids, MI$2,500112024
Victory DreamsCarbondale, IL$2,500112024
Good Samaritan MinistriesCarbondale, IL$1,500112024
Harmony House Homeless Services IncMansfield, OH$1,000112024
Kids Closet MinistryNorth Judson, IN$1,000112024
Miles MissionZanesville, OH$1,000112024
Wildwood Hill IncSaint Charles, IA$1,000112024
Hastings Area SchoolsHastings, MI$914112024
Thornapple Kellogg SchoolsMiddleville, MI$896112024
The Power Company Kids ClubPontiac, MI$600112024
Als AssociationGrand Rapids, MI$500112024
Caledonia High SchoolCaledonia, MI$500112024
Fox Family Ride in Care ItaalkToledo, OH$500112024
Toys for TotsGreenville, MI$500112024
United Way of Defiance County IncDefiance, OH$500112024
Plus 116 grants to individuals totalling $592,301 -- 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 recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
4 grants
Religion
2 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Housing & Shelter
2 grants
Arts & Culture
1 grant
Recreation & Sports
1 grant
Crime & Legal
1 grant
Health Care
1 grant

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 84% of this one's giving went to organizations in Michigan. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Michigan
$201K
Ohio
$31K
Illinois
$4K
Iowa
$1K
Indiana
$1K

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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund13 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc7 shared recipientsGrand Rapids Community Foundation6 shared recipientsDouglas & Maria Devos Foundation6 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc6 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,400. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  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 Hastings Mutual Insurance Company Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 404 E Woodlawn Ave, Hastings, MI, 49058. 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 20-2031029 · 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, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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