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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.

$78k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
58%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,192
Largest grant, FY2024
$18,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 36
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$120k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 58% of the organizations Arrow Cares funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$78k68%
FY202312$56k58%
FY202218$185k78%
FY202112$80k50%
FY20208$19k25%
FY201921$56k52%
FY201820$64k50%
FY201736$83kn/a
72% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$108kHealth$105kHuman Services$82kPhilanthropy$63kYouth Development$46kInternational$33kEducation$32kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
MI
NY
OH
KY
VA
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 65 recipients with no EIN on record ($380k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Arrow Cares supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFallen and Wounded Soldiers Fund: $62,780 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetEscot Youth Development Inc: $23,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetNfx: $22,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Samaritan: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGirl Scouts of Southeastern Michigan: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChampions of Wayne Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAngels' Place: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSweet Dreamzzz Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetForever Changed International: $9,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornerstone Schools Association: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlessings in a Backpack Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLife Remodeled: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation: $4,295 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThree Pillars an Educational Service Provider: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope Water International: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTurning Point Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUrban League of Detroit and Southeastern Michigan: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVeteran Owned Business Roundtable: $1,850 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKidsgala a David C McKnight Foundation: $1,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetWaterstep Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRide Janie Ride Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBlack United Fund of Michigan Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFolds of Honor Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heat and Warmth Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arc of Midland: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStupid Cancer Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVeterans Radio America Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFelines Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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 MichiganMI29.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Arrow Cares?

Find your warmest path to Arrow Cares 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.

About Arrow Cares

How much does Arrow Cares give?
Arrow Cares reported 22 grants totaling $77,934 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Arrow Cares fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (17%), Health (17%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Arrow Cares's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fallen and Wounded Soldiers Fund ($63k), Escot Youth Development Inc ($23k), Nfx ($23k).
Does Arrow Cares fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Arrow Cares 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 Arrow Cares?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, DTE Energy Foundation, United Way for Southeastern Michigan.
Where is Arrow Cares based?
Arrow Cares is based in MI.

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 102 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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