How much does Amerisure Charitable Foundation give?

Amerisure Charitable Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $710,153 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 59 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Amerisure Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (26%), Philanthropy (12%), Youth Development (11%).

Who are Amerisure Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Shepherd Center Foundation Inc ($558k), Special Olympics Michigan Inc ($400k), Junior Achievement of Southeastern Michigan Inc ($364k).

Does Amerisure Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Amerisure Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Amerisure Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, DTE Energy Foundation.

Where is Amerisure Charitable Foundation based?

Amerisure Charitable Foundation is based in MI.

Amerisure Charitable Foundation

Amerisure Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Amerisure Charitable Foundation

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.

$710k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$125k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$798kPhilanthropy$369kYouth Development$333kRecreation & Sports$329kEducation$309kHuman Services$306kInternational$300kFood & Nutrition$96kOther$0

02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k35 grants · $142k
$10k–50k11 grants · $221k
$50k–250k4 grants · $348k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION	$125,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEASTERN MI	$80,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF MICHIGAN	$72,500
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SE MICHIGAN	$70,000
VISTA MARIA	$41,000
INSURANCE INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	$36,500
NATIONAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN INSURNACE ASSOCIATION	$33,400
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA - TERRY RISK MGMT & INSURANCE PROGRAM	$20,000
INVEST	$20,000
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION	$20,000
CHAPTER ONE (TUTOR MATE DETROIT)	$10,000
CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN	$10,000
MICHIGAN COLLEGES ALLIANCE	$10,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF MID-SOUTH INC	$10,000
JUNE SHELTON SCHOOL & EVALUATION CENTER	$10,000

02The need

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 (FY20–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.6M · 58 repeat orgs$204k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.6M

$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+20%

Still filing today

59%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $400k · revenue +110%
JA
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $364k · revenue +131%
II
INSURANCE INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $333k · revenue +46%

Funded once

S
SBP
one grant, 2021 · $15k
TH
THE HENRY FORD (THE EDISON INSTITUTE INC)
one grant, 2020 · $10k
CC
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -29%

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.

Michigan Humane Society

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

Animals

Trinity Health - Michigan

We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.

Health

Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

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

University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health

Hospice of Michigan Inc

Hospice of Michigan, Inc. meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.

Human Services

Business Leaders for Michigan

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National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health

Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health

Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services

Authoracare Collective

Authoracare collective empowers people to be active participants in their care journey, enabling them to live on their own terms through personalized support for mind, body, and spirit.

Human Services

Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan; the most unlike its peers is Ima Foundation. 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

87 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. 87 of the 137 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

87/87

Grantees still filing

59/87

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,485,153Philanthropy$953,420Recreation & Sports$401,000International$374,500Education$337,500Health$155,200Human Services$130,900

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.

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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI29× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · The Barton Malow Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Molinello Family Foundation · Eagles for Children · Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation Dba Dresner Foundation · Delta Dental Plan of Michigan Inc

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 Amerisure Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amerisure Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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The camps

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By state

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