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Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation
The ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION enriches the quality of life in our region through its knowledgeable leadership, engaged grantmaking, and creative partnerships with donors to make philanthropic investments and build endowment.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $239k
- $10k–50k121 grants · $2.7M
- $50k–250k47 grants · $4.6M
- $250k+2 grants · $553k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $295,026 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY | $258,126 |
| WASHTENAW HOUSING ALLIANCE | $243,760 |
| PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $226,819 |
| UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN | $198,759 |
| FEONIX - MOBILITY RISING | $180,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK | $155,013 |
| SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY | $154,391 |
| BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY | $151,564 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $150,353 |
| THE BOSTON FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| ANN ARBOR ART ASSOCIATION DBA ANN ARBOR ART CENTER | $137,554 |
| THE TREELINE CONSERVANCY | $137,066 |
| FRIENDS IN DEED | $122,448 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT | $118,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $4.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
231 repeat relationships: 155 still active in FY2024, 76 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $774k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY7× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +54%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +311%
- AAAnn Arbor Art Association7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +22%
Funded once
- VCVeterans Connectedone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +2%
- BHBALTIMORE HOMECOMING INCone grant, 2021 · $290k · revenue +8% · 49% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +31%
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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Creating healthy communities - together
How this is measured
340 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. 340 of the 443 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WASHTENAW COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CANTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WASHTENAW COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Ann Arbor Art Association ↗
- Who funds Veterans Connected ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Packard Health Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHTENAW HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH & TRANSFORMATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Peace Neighborhood Center ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Nonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds WASHTENAW COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS GROUP ↗
- Who funds ANN ARBOR HANDS-ON MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Neutral Zone ↗
- Who funds CULTURESOURCE ↗
- Who funds OZONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Ann Arbor Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds AVALON NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ANN ARBOR CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CATCHAFIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Washtenaw County · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · Trinity Health - Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Buhr Foundation · Duffy Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Finding Common Purpose Inc: 23% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
- Lori's Hands Inc: 1% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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