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Albert and Doris Pitt Foundation at a glance

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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.

$218k
Granted FY2023
44
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Food & Nutrition$391kHealth$354kCivil Rights$291kInternational$240kHuman Services$161kHousing & Shelter$140kArts & Culture$114kCrime & Legal$69kOther$0
02FY2023 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k38 grants · $127k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
$4,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$118k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACLU FUND OF MICHIGAN$25,000
FORGOTTEN HARVEST$21,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$15,000
JARC$10,000
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$10,000
MUSIC HALL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$10,000
HIAS$9,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MID AND SOUTH MI$8,000
FOCUS HOPE$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
COTS$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AM$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$5,000
PUBLIC CITIZEN FUND$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $300 → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $300 → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $250 → 9%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $15k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $15k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $10k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $10k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $10k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $8k → 14%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $2k → 21%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $2k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $10k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $10k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $10k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $10k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%FOCUS HOPE: $10k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%FOCUS HOPE: $6k → 21%JARC: $10k → 8%JARC: $10k → 8%FOCUS HOPE: $6k → 21%JARC: $25k → 8%JARC: $25k → 8%JARC: $25k → 8%JARC: $25k → 8%FREE LEGAL AID CLINIC INC: $2k → 21%JARC: $25k → 8%FREE LEGAL AID CLINIC INC: $2k → 21%OPPORTUNITY RESOURCE FUND: $1k → 21%FREE LEGAL AID CLINIC INC: $1k → 21%FREE LEGAL AID CLINIC INC: $1k → 21%OPPORTUNITY RESOURCE FUND: $1k → 21%EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $2k → 21%EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $2k → 21%EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $2k → 21%EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $1k → 21%EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $1k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
OK
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 61 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
13

Total granted

$1.9M
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+194%

Still filing today

61%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesInternationalEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $162k · revenue +12%
  • MUSIC HALL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $92k · revenue +73%
  • OXFAM-AMERICA INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $81k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • GC
    GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SEM
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MI PFSS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • WF
    WSU FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Michigan Advocacy Program

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.

Crime & Legal
3
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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4
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
5
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
Detroit Jews for Justice

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

Civil Rights
7
Delta Dental Fund

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.

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8
Organ Procurement Agency of Michigan

We honor life through donation.

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9
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
10
Opportunity Partners

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…

Employment
11
Michigan State Bar Foundation

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.

Crime & Legal
12
Ohio Justice and Policy Center

To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alternatives for Girls; 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.
04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
32/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACLU FUND OF MICHIGAN: $90,000 · OtherACLU FUND OF MICHIGANAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION: $75,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIONDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDER: $35,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $32,000 · OtherGILDA'S CLUB: $31,000 · OtherDOROTHY & PETER BROWN ADULT DAY CARE: $30,000 · OtherFURNITURE BANK OF SE MICHIGAN: $29,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SE MICHIGAN: $28,500 · OtherTHE CHILDRENS CENTER: $28,500 · OtherMUSIC HALL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $92,000 · OtherMUSIC HALL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS+41 more: $381,650 · Other+41 moreJARC: $145,000 · Human ServicesJARCFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $68,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WO…FOCUSHOPE: $62,000 · Human ServicesFOCUSHOPETHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $12,000 · Human Services+4 more: $13,350 · Human ServicesFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $162,000 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARV…WELD FOOD BANK: $44,500 · Food & NutritionWELD FOOD BANKFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $29,500 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of E…GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $20,000 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COMMU…OXFAM-AMERICA INC: $80,500 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA…HIAS INC: $58,000 · InternationalHIAS INCInternational Rescue Committee INC: $50,000 · InternationalInternational…PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE …UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · InternationalUNITED NATION…COTS: $64,000 · Housing & ShelterSENIOR HOUSING OPTIONS INC: $31,000 · Housing & ShelterALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $29,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterPUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $50,500 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $1,000 · Crime & LegalPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $33,000 · HealthCOMMON GROUND: $31,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $30,000 · HealthTRI-COMMUNITY COALITION OF BERKLEY HUNTINGTON WOODS AND OAK PARK MI: $12,500 · Health
Other$852,650Human Services$300,350Food & Nutrition$256,000International$236,500Housing & Shelter$127,000Crime & Legal$106,500Health$106,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $162,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJARC: $145,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMUSIC HALL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $92,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $80,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $68,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOTS: $64,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOCUSHOPE: $62,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $58,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $50,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK: $44,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $33,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON GROUND: $31,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR HOUSING OPTIONS INC: $31,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $29,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $29,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK: $28,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYAD EZRA: $25,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $19,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKADIMA: $13,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-COMMUNITY COALITION OF BERKLEY HUNTINGTON WOODS AND OAK PARK MI: $12,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $12,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE ACCESS PLAN: $11,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAURICE & JANE SUGAR LAW CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDI'S HOUSE INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetProgress Michigan Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOpportunity Resource Fund: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN OVARIAN CANCER ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFUND FOR EQUAL JUSTICE INC: $1,200 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWORKPLACE FAIRNESS INC CO Outten & Golden LLP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 COMMON GROUND ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR HOUSING OPTIONS INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Kresge FoundationCommunity Foundation …United Jewish Foundat…Michigan Health Endow…United Way for Southe…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Kresge FoundationMI14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Albert and Doris Pitt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert and Doris Pitt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 79 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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