· Private foundation
Albert and Doris Pitt Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k38 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACLU FUND OF MICHIGAN | $25,000 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $21,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $15,000 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| MUSIC HALL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| JARC | $10,000 |
| HIAS | $9,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD MID AND SOUTH MI | $8,000 |
| FOCUS HOPE | $6,000 |
| SUGAR LAW CENTER | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AM | $5,000 |
| COTS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
61 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2023, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC7× · 2017–2023 · $162k · revenue +12%
MUSIC HALL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS7× · 2017–2023 · $92k · revenue +73%
FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC6× · 2017–2022 · $68k · revenue +585%
Funded once
- GCGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SEMone grant, 2021 · $15k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MI PFSSone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SFSMB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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…
To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.
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.…
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.…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
We honor life through donation.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…
The michigan state bar foundation provides leadership and grants to improve access for all to the justice system, including support for civil legal aid for low-income individuals, law-related education and conflict resolution.
To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alternatives for Girls and the most unlike its peers is Solar Circle. 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 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 79 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 FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HALL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds COTS ↗
- Who funds FOCUSHOPE ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds WELD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR HOUSING OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Kresge Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Jewish Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Albert and Doris Pitt 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.