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Americana Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$617k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$98k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.3MEducation$1.1MEnvironment$1.0MFood & Nutrition$710kHuman Services$151kCommunity Improvement$142kPhilanthropy$84kPublic Benefit$79kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $498k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $98k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$97,500
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON$37,500
SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT$25,058
CENTRAL LAKE SUPERIOR WATERSHED PARTNERS$25,000
HURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL$25,000
GVSU - WGVU PUBLIC MEDIA$25,000
EDISON INSTITUTE$25,000
KEEP GROWING DETROIT$25,000
DETROIT BLACK COMMUNITY FOOD SECURITY$25,000
SAUGATUCK DUNES COASTAL ALLIANCE$25,000
CROSSHATCH CENTER FOR ART & ECOLOGY$25,000
FLINT SOCIAL CLUB$25,000
CITIZENS FOR A SAFE AND CLEAN LAKE SUPERIOR$25,000
KEWEENAW LAND TRUST$25,000
HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC$25,000
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 (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 16%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

VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
DE
NC
SC
DC
GA
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 49 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

49 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
77

Total granted

$3.9M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+42%

Still filing today

71%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • GH
    GROWING HOPE INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $122k · revenue +130%
  • KEEP GROWING DETROIT
    5× · 2019–2025 · $119k · revenue +240%
  • EM
    EASTERN MARKET CORPORATION
    3× · 2018–2024 · $105k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +28%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HOUSE OF BIRMINGHAM
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • WORCESTER ART MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +46%
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
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
2
The Little Forks Conservancy Inc

To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.

Environment
3
Heart of the Lakes Ctr for Land Cons

Heart of the Lakes provides technical assistance, leadership training, and strategic communication tools that help organizations thrive - from grassroots land conservancies to larger regional conservation groups. Programs such as peer…

Environment
4
Michigan Historic Preservation Network

Advocate for michigan's historic resources to contribute to the economic vitality, sense of place and connection to the past.

—
5
Coalition to Protect Michigan Resources

The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…

Environment
6
East Michigan Environmental Action Council Inc

To protect and restore land, air, water, and diversity of life through informed personal and public action.

Environment
7
The Dahlem Conservancy

The mission of the dahlem conservancy is to provide environmental education and outdoor experiences to the people of south central michigan.

Environment
8
Southeast Michigan Land Conservancy

To conserve natural land and open space - including forests, wetlands, meadows, agricultural lands, and places of scenic beauty - to provide habitat for wildlife and to enrich the lives of people.

Environment
9
Michigan Legacy Art Park

Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.

Arts & Culture
10
Mid-Michigan Land Conservancy

To protect natural, scenic, recreational, and agricultural lands and their natural diversity in mid-michigan so rural landscapes are preserved, and to promote the protection of these lands and their natural diversity through education and…

Environment
11
Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition

Works to end environmental injustice by empowering communities at the grassroots level.the corporation is organzied exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including for such purposes, the makeing of…

Environment
12
The Treeline Conservancy

To foster the creation and sustainable maintenance of a 2.75-mile urban trail that becomes an integral connector of people and places in ann arbor. the trail will bring access to ann arbor's river and park system through the heart of…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Integrated Food and Farming Systems Inc; the most unlike its peers is Edsel & Eleanor Ford House. 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

99 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. 99 of the 136 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/99
Grantees still filing
68/99
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,036,947 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYHISTORIC NEW ENGLAND: $138,800 · OtherHISTORIC NEW ENGLANDMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $87,500 · Other+52 more: $1,104,615 · Other+52 moreTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 · Arts & CultureTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUND…Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: $99,184 · Arts & CultureColonial Williamsburg …OLD STURBRIDGE INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureOLD STURBRIDGE INCHENRY FORD ESTATE: $72,500 · Arts & CultureHENRY FORD ESTATEDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $55,549 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC DEERFIELD INC: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN HISTORY FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureHESSEL SCHOOL HOUSE CORPORATION: $39,000 · Arts & Culture+21 more: $451,840 · Arts & Culture+21 moreTHE GREENING OF DETROIT: $104,000 · EnvironmentTHE GREENING OF DET…ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $90,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL LAW A…MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL: $68,000 · EnvironmentMICHIGAN ENVIROMENT…SAUGATUCK DUNES COASTAL ALLIANCE: $65,000 · EnvironmentSAUGATUCK DUNES COA…KEWEENAW LAND TRUST INC: $55,000 · EnvironmentKEWEENAW LAND TRUST…HURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $50,000 · EnvironmentCitizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior: $50,000 · EnvironmentLEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY: $40,900 · EnvironmentSIX RIVERS LAND CONSERVANCY FKA SIX RIVERS REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY: $36,599 · Environment+20 more: $384,650 · Environment+20 moreEASTERN MARKET CORPORATION: $105,000 · Food & NutritionEASTERN M…MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE: $63,514 · Food & NutritionMAKE FOOD…EDIBLE FLINT: $50,000 · Food & NutritionEDIBLE FL…FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $45,000 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN…FAIR FOOD NETWORK INC: $43,488 · Food & NutritionFAIR FOOD…OUR KITCHEN TABLE: $30,000 · Food & NutritionOUR KITCH…SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC: $25,058 · Food & NutritionSOCIALLY …CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionCARES OF …GROW JACKSON: $20,000 · Food & NutritionSoil2Service Inc: $20,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $18,500 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $18,500 · Food & NutritionKEEP GROWING DETROIT: $119,000 · Community ImprovementASBURY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $96,000 · Community ImprovementDetroit Future City: $25,000 · Community ImprovementMAIN STREET CALUMET INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementMACKINAC ASSOCIATES: $10,000 · Community ImprovementEARTH University Foundation Inc: $185,000 · InternationalGROWING HOPE INC: $122,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$2,367,862Arts & Culture$1,093,073Environment$944,149Food & Nutrition$464,060Community Improvement$265,000International$185,000Youth Development$124,500

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 budgetEARTH University Foundation Inc: $185,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGROWING HOPE INC: $122,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetKEEP GROWING DETROIT: $119,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetEASTERN MARKET CORPORATION: $105,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GREENING OF DETROIT: $104,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $99,184 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASBURY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $96,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST: $90,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOLD STURBRIDGE INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHENRY FORD ESTATE: $72,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetMICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL: $68,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSAUGATUCK DUNES COASTAL ALLIANCE: $65,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetMAKE FOOD NOT WASTE: $63,514 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $55,549 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE: $51,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORIC DEERFIELD INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST MICHIGAN: $50,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetEDIBLE FLINT: $50,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetCitizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior: $50,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetMICHIGAN HISTORY FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAIR FOOD NETWORK INC: $43,488 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY: $40,900 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHESSEL SCHOOL HOUSE CORPORATION: $39,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSIX RIVERS LAND CONSERVANCY FKA SIX RIVERS REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY: $36,599 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCrosshatch Center for Art & Ecology: $36,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR MICHIGAN: $35,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOUR KITCHEN TABLE: $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPACKARD MOTOR CAR FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST DETROIT ENVIRONMENTAL VISION: $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetECOLOGY CENTER: $27,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $26,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC: $25,058 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOO LOCKS CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHURON PINES RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDetroit Future City: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKalamazoo Nature Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJAMESTOWN REDISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFlint Social Club: $25,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetBlack to the Land Coalition: $25,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetGreat Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROOKED TREE ARTS COUNCIL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

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 FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Fred & Barbara Er…Charles Stewart Mott …Consumers Energy Foun…WK Kellogg FoundationHarry a and Margaret …The Kresge FoundationMichigan Health Endow…Ford PhilanthropyUnited Way for Southe…Frey Foundation
DTE Energy FoundationMI46.9× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: DTE Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Ford Philanthropy · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Frey 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 Americana Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Americana Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Historic Deerfield Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
27report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Americana Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Americana Foundation 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 136 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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