· Private foundation
Arrow Cares
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN | $18,000 |
| THE FALLEN AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS FUND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LIFE REMODELED | $5,000 |
| EVEREST ACADEMY | $4,000 |
| NSO | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,192 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| TERRY THOMAS SCHOLARSHIP | $2,000 |
| VETERAN OWNED BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE | $1,850 |
| BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MICHIGAN GOLF OUTING | $1,620 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 15 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FAFALLEN AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS FUND7× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +39%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN4× · 2018–2021 · $11k · revenue +12%
- FCFOREVER CHANGED INTERNATIONAL2× · 2022–2023 · $9k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- EYESCOT YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INCone grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue -27%
- NNFXone grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue -18%
- ISINTERNATIONAL SAMARITANone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.…
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.…
Our mission is to provide opportunities for kids, regardless of their abilities, to compete and experience the joy and benefits that come from playing sports.
The special olympics movement uses sport as a vehicle for acceptance, respect, inclusion, dignity, and joy. we provide year-round sports training and competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
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…
Helping families and neighborhoods succeed by providing a place and support to assure kids ages 0-5 are school ready and families are healthy and stable.
To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.
Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.
Providing patient support, community connections, education and advocacy.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
We honor life through donation.
To educate the public about unfair business practices fraud, and to make informed decisions when choosing entities to do business with.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sgrx Cares. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 102 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FALLEN AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS FUND ↗
- Who funds ESCOT YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NFX ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SAMARITAN ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' PLACE ↗
- Who funds SWEET DREAMZZZ INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS OF WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds FOREVER CHANGED INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIFE REMODELED ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation ↗
- Who funds THREE PILLARS AN EDUCATIONAL SERVICE PROVIDER ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Barton Malow Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Catholic Foundation of Michigan · Ford Philanthropy · John D & Jean E Dinan Foundation · Henry Ford Health System · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Detroit Economic Growth Association · The Kresge Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arrow Cares funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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