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Aa Van Elslander Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$10MReligion$8.3MInternational$2.1MCommunity Improvement$1.6MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$1.2MHousing & Shelter$548kFood & Nutrition$475kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $925k
  • $250k+6 grants · $6.9M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION$4,000,000
BENJAMIN'S HOPE$1,000,000
SAY DETROIT$550,000
NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES$500,000
PROVINCE OF ST JOSEPH OF CAPUCHIN ORDER$500,000
Individual grant recipient$340,000
SANCTUM HOUSE$200,000
DUTTON FARM$165,000
LIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER$100,000
PASSENGER INC$75,000
MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION$75,000
ALS OF MICHIGAN INC$60,000
HAND2HAND$50,000
CAMP CASEY$50,000
VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF DETROIT$50,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $7.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIVINGSTON COUNTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $25k → 5%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE GRAND TRAVERSE AREA: $30k → 7%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $1.0M → 8%THE POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $100k → 21%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER FOR THE GRAND TRAVERSE AREA: $20k → 7%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $175k → 8%MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION: $250k → 10%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $125k → 8%MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION: $75k → 10%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $125k → 8%KIDS ON THE GO: $26k → 10%BENJAMIN'S HOPE: $125k → 8%KIDS ON THE GO: $26k → 10%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $45k → 8%KIDS ON THE GO: $25k → 10%KIDS ON THE GO: $25k → 10%CAMP CASEY: $50k → 8%CAMP CASEY: $50k → 8%CAMP CASEY: $10k → 8%DUTTON FARM: $165k → 8%DUTTON FARM: $75k → 8%DUTTON FARM: $18k → 8%LIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $100k → 8%LIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $75k → 8%HOPE HOSPITALITY & WARMING CENTER: $72k → 8%FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $4.0M → 21%ANGELS' PLACE: $100k → 8%JUDSON CENTER: $40k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 25 repeat orgs$8.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
32

Total granted

$23M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+9%

Still filing today

64%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • BH
    BENJAMIN'S HOPE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +79%
  • BB
    BEYOND BASICS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +55%
  • TN
    THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $750k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEMgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue +33%
  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +194%
  • AP
    ANGELS' PLACEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +27%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Detroit Central City Cmh Inc

Detroit central city community mental health's mission is to achieve wellness in the community by providing an integrated array of mental health, housing and substance abuse services with diginity and respect.

Health
2
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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3
Community & Home Supports Inc

Community & home supports, inc. was founded to help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we strive to fulfill our purpose by developing, leading, and participating in collaborative and innovative efforts that support…

Human Services
4
Michigan Ability Partners

Map partners with veterans and people who have disabilities in support of their self-directed transformation to self-sufficiency.

Human Services
5
Michigan Christian Home

The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…

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6
Lincoln Behavioral Services

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…

Health
7
Trinity Health - Michigan

We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.

Health
8
Detroit Food Policy Council

The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…

Food & Nutrition
9
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
10
The New Foster Care

The new foster care will show the love of jesus christ by making a measurable, meaningful, and transformative change in the michigan foster care system and in the lives of those who have experienced foster care by: 1) providing direct…

Human Services
11
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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12
Brilliant Detroit

Helping families and neighborhoods succeed by providing a place and support to assure kids ages 0-5 are school ready and families are healthy and stable.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Inclusively Fit Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith Community CentersSenior Residential HousingAdult Residential Care Serv…International Humanitarian …Family FoundationsDetroit Community Developme…Companion Animal Rescue and…Detroit Performing Arts Org…Senior Affordable HousingSenior Healthcare Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr13%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr19%39%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr13%45%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
16%
3,172/19,595

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.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 69 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
33/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROVINCE OF ST JOSEPH OF THE CAPUCHIN ORDER INC — $8,300,000 · OtherPROVINCE OF ST JOSEPH OF THE CAPUCHIN ORDER INCIndividual grant recipient — $3,461,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $1,980,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientACENSION ST JOHN & PROVIDENCE FOUNDATIONS — $1,878,740 · OtherACENSION ST JOHN & PROVIDENCE FOUNDATIONS+28 more — $1,545,137 · Other+28 moreFULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC — $4,000,000 · Human ServicesFULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INCBENJAMIN'S HOPE — $1,550,000 · Human ServicesBENJAMIN'S HOPESANCTUM HOUSE INC — $575,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUM HOUSE INCMOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION — $325,000 · Human ServicesDUTTON FARM — $258,000 · Human Services+10 more — $817,290 · Human Services+10 moreHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM — $2,000,000 · HealthHENRY FORD …THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES — $750,000 · HealthTHE NEW DAY…+12 more — $566,000 · Health+12 moreBEYOND BASICS — $1,125,000 · EducationHOLLEY FAMILY VILLAGE INC — $100,000 · Education+1 more — $40,000 · EducationSAY DETROIT — $1,250,000 · Housing & ShelterHENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION — $499,875 · PhilanthropyOTSEGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $320,000 · Food & NutritionHAND2HAND — $105,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$17,165,577Human Services$7,525,290Health$3,316,000Education$1,265,000Housing & Shelter$1,250,000Philanthropy$599,875Food & Nutrition$425,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC — $4,000,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM — $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBENJAMIN'S HOPE — $1,550,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetSAY DETROIT — $1,250,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetBEYOND BASICS — $1,125,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES — $750,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSANCTUM HOUSE INC — $575,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION — $499,875 over 1y, 17% of budgetJEFFERSON EAST INC — $350,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetMOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION — $325,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $320,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDUTTON FARM — $258,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetLIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER — $175,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM — $120,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCAMP CASEY CORPORATION — $110,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetHAND2HAND — $105,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetKIDS ON THE GO — $100,790 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetANGELS' PLACE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSHADES OF PINK FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetHOLLEY FAMILY VILLAGE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOTSEGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPOPE FRANCIS CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPASSENGER INC — $75,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetHOPE HOSPITALITY AND WARMING CENTER INC — $71,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetALS OF MICHIGAN INC — $60,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetFISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN — $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetINCLUSIVELY FIT FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMARINERS INN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER GRAND TRAVERSE AREA — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRAVERSE BAY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER — $40,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDETROIT FOOD & ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY — $40,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetJUDSON CENTER INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDEAF COMMUNITY ADVOCACY NETWORK — $36,041 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPINK FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLIVINGSTON COUNTY CATHOLIC CHARITIES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetASBURY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS KICKING CANCER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetROSE HILL CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ISHPEMING CANCER SOCIETY SERVING MARQUETTE CO — $20,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetThe Villages Community Development Corp — $20,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetNORTH STAR REACH — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Dte Energy FoundationUnited Way for Southe…Consumers Energy Foun…The Carls FoundationChildren's Hospital o…Canton Community Foun…Detroit Industrial Sc…Eagles for ChildrenHarry a and Margaret …Molinello Family Foun…Phillip and Elizabeth…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI54.3× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Carls Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Detroit Industrial School · Eagles for Children · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Molinello Family Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial

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 Aa Van Elslander 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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