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Aline Underhill Orten Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$89kHealth$77kEducation$70kHuman Services$64kCommunity Improvement$52kArts & Culture$49kAnimals$28kInternational$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING & HELPING COMMUNITIES$10,000
MACOMB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$2,500
CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN$2,500
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$2,500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NEW ORLEANS$2,000
NW MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY$1,000
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 (FY17–21, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF GALVESTON HOUSTON: $3k → 16%SHELTERBOX: $1k → 10%NORTH WEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $12k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $3k → 10%ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 21%MACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $5k → 13%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $3k → 10%MACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $2k → 13%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $1k → 10%MACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $1k → 13%MACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $1k → 13%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%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

MI
WY
OH
CT
CA
LA
TX
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$388k · 34 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
19

Total granted

$388k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+71%

Still filing today

68%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $51k · revenue +190%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    4× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +140%
  • NL
    NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK
    5× · 2017–2021 · $16k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • NM
    NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue -6%
  • UO
    U OF M - CENTER FOR THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan

The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…

Food & Nutrition
2
Greater Lansing Food Bank

Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time, to create a future where everyone has access to nourishing food.

Food & Nutrition
3
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
4
Metro Food Rescue

The mission of metro food rescue is simple; waste less, feed more. we rescue food that would otherwise be discarded and deliver it to a network of food partners. thereby, helping to feed individuals and families in need.

Food & Nutrition
5
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
6
Humane Society of Southwestern Michigan

Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.

Animals
7
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
8
The Greater Detroit Health Transition Company

Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…

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9
Harbor Springs Community Food Pantry

To alleviate hunger and enhance the well-being of our community by providing nutritious food and support to individuals and families in need. we are dedicated to fostering a more equitable and connected community through compassionate…

Food & Nutrition
10
Great Lakes Bay Health Centers

To provide high quality health care to individuals and community groups in Saginaw, Bay, and other nearby counties. Services are provided without regard to race, beliefs or ability to pay.

Health
11
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

—
12
Sheboygan County Food Bank Inc

Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Michigan Community Action; the most unlike its peers is Early Learning Focus Inc. 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

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 53 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
32/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Michigan: $40,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganARAB AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $24,000 · OtherARAB AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONNW MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $19,500 · OtherNW MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCYCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NEW ORLEANS: $15,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NEW ORLEANSAMERICAN RED CROSS: $12,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSCAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN: $11,000 · OtherU OF M - CENTER FOR THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN: $10,000 · OtherThe Houston Food Bank: $10,000 · OtherMACOMB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10,000 · OtherARTWORKS: $8,500 · Other+16 more: $67,000 · Other+16 moreLAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES: $51,000 · Arts & CultureLAHC - LEADERS …MICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK: $12,000 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN LEGACY…+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $12,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST MI…MACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $8,500 · Human ServicesMACOMB COUNT…RESURRECTION HOUSE INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesRESURRECTION…Paws With A Cause: $6,500 · Human ServicesPaws With A …TURNING POINT INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesTURNING POIN…LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS …CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $2,500 · Human ServicesFATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK: $15,500 · Food & NutritionNORTHWEST …FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $12,000 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN …GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $10,500 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS C…ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $4,500 · Food & NutritionALL FAITHS…St John's Health Foundation: $12,000 · HealthTRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION: $11,000 · HealthHENRY FORD MACOMB HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $8,000 · HealthPACE North: $2,000 · HealthEarly Learning Focus Inc: $15,000 · EducationWINNING FUTURES: $14,000 · EducationHumane Society of Sarasota County Inc: $8,500 · AnimalsGROSSE POINTE ANIMAL ADOPTION SOCIETY: $8,500 · AnimalsSAVE OUR SEABIRDS INC: $7,000 · AnimalsCHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,500 · Animals
Other$227,500Arts & Culture$65,000Human Services$50,500Food & Nutrition$42,500Health$33,000Education$29,000Animals$27,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES: $51,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $40,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK: $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEarly Learning Focus Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetWINNING FUTURES: $14,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK: $12,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetNORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACOMB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetHumane Society of Sarasota County Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGROSSE POINTE ANIMAL ADOPTION SOCIETY: $8,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $8,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRESURRECTION HOUSE INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY FORD MACOMB HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE OUR SEABIRDS INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPaws With A Cause: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVE HICKORY: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACE North: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlackbird Arts: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 LAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Early Learning Focus Inc ↗
  • Who funds WINNING FUTURES ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
  • Who funds St John's Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds TRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds MACOMB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds Humane Society of Sarasota County Inc ↗
  • Who funds GROSSE POINTE ANIMAL ADOPTION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MACOMB COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS ↗
  • Who funds RESURRECTION HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds HENRY FORD MACOMB HOSPITAL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE OUR SEABIRDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds THE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY ↗

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.

DTE Energy FoundationThe Art and Mary Schm…Grand Traverse Region…Oleson FoundationCommunity Foundation …Green Brick Foundatio…Rotary Charities of T…The Mercantile Bank F…Michigan Health Endow…The Gap FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationThe Julius H and Barb…
DTE Energy FoundationMI23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: DTE Energy Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Green Brick Foundation Inc · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Gap Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Julius H and Barbara B Beers Family Foundation

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 Aline Underhill Orten Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aline Underhill Orten Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report 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
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.
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Find your warmest path to Aline Underhill Orten Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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