· Private foundation
Amber Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO DETROIT | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOC | $1,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $500 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $500 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $300 |
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION | $300 |
| UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MI | $250 |
| MI PSYCHOANALYTIC FOUNDATION | $225 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PLPacific Legal Foundation4× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +91%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +53%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- NRNATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
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.
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How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN PSYCHOANALYTIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Amber Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amber Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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