· 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 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.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LIFE REMODELED | $5,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +33% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
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.
How this is measured
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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
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 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 CHAMPIONS OF WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' PLACE ↗
- Who funds SWEET DREAMZZZ INC ↗
- Who funds FOREVER CHANGED INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE REMODELED ↗
- Who funds Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation ↗
- Who funds THREE PILLARS AN EDUCATIONAL SERVICE PROVIDER ↗
- Who funds HOPE WATER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Arrow Cares funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arrow Cares. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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