· Private foundation
Artichoke Garlic Foundation
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 $10k4 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FERNDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $155,457 |
| METRO DETROIT YOUTH CLUB | $110,000 |
| THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES | $35,000 |
| SAY DETROIT | $30,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB | $25,000 |
| SOUTHEAST OAKLAND COALITION | $20,000 |
| LIFE DIRECTIONS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| DYNAMI FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| CITY OF FERNDALE | $3,500 |
| BECKY WILSON HOLLOWAY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| KENSINGTON CHURCH | $1,200 |
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 (FY17–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% 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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 4 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, 92% 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
- SDSAY DETROIT8× · 2017–2024 · $635k · revenue +139%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAND COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · $585k · revenue +78%
- TNTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES7× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +211%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- LDLIFE DIRECTIONS-SPARK OF HOPE GAone grant, 2021 · $15k
- CFCHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +91%
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.
Friends of the children - detroit has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
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.…
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.
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.…
To educate the public on universal healthcare/medicare for all.
Social welfare and issue advocacy
Dlive is a health-centered violence intervention and prevention organization that works to advance the health outcomes and well-being of young adults who have sustained injury from community violence.
The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Dynami Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 71 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 SAY DETROIT ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BASICS ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds GESHER HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FERNDALE YOUTH ASSISTANCE ↗
- Who funds LIFE REMODELED ↗
- Who funds RUGIERO PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNICATIONS GROUP ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds DETROIT DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds DYNAMI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLARENCE E PHILLIPS ASCEND ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds MACOMB COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT2NEPAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RAINBOW CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST OAKLAND COALITION ↗
- Who funds LIFE DIRECTIONS ↗
- Who funds FERNCARE FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds ROEPER CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN YOUTH APPRECIATION FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The Barton Malow Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Ford Philanthropy · Eagles for Children · United Jewish Foundation · The Jewish Fund · The Carls Foundation · 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 Artichoke Garlic Foundation 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.