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Artichoke Garlic Foundation at a glance

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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.

$422k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.2MYouth Development$1.5MHealth$1.1MHuman Services$864kCommunity Improvement$740kEmployment$160kFood & Nutrition$108kArts & Culture$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $265k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $3k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%SOUTHEAST OAKLAND COALITION: $20k → 8%SOUTHEAST OAKLAND COALITION: $10k → 8%TEAM GUTS: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.9M · 39 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +42% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
27

Total granted

$6.9M
$156k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+42%

Still filing today

72%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterInternationalFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SD
    SAY DETROIT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $635k · revenue +139%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAND COUNTY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $585k · revenue +78%
  • TN
    THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +211%

Funded once

  • LD
    LIFE DIRECTIONS-SPARK OF HOPE GA
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • F
    FERNCARE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
About Face Detroit
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2
Detroit Donates Inc
Housing & Shelter
3
The Michigan Glass Project
Public Benefit
4
Friends of the Children - Detroit

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…

Crime & Legal
5
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
6
Brilliant Detroit

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.

Youth Development
7
Community Pride Mi
Public Benefit
8
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

—
9
Michigan Universal Health Care Access Network

To educate the public on universal healthcare/medicare for all.

Health
10
Michigan Center of Accountability for Republicans

Social welfare and issue advocacy

Civil Rights
11
Detroit Life Is Valuable Everyday

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.

Health
12
Detroit Food Policy Council

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…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan; 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.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 71 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
36/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAZEL PARK SCHOOLS: $789,534 · OtherHAZEL PARK SCHOOLSSALVATION ARMY: $756,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $666,200 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICAFERNDALE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $630,148 · OtherFERNDALE PUBLIC SCHOOLSFERNDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $409,777 · OtherFERNDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT+47 more: $967,000 · Other+47 moreTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $425,000 · HealthTHE NEW DAY …BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $225,000 · HealthBEAUMONT HEA…DYNAMI FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthDYNAMI FOUND…THE RAINBOW CONNECTION: $34,500 · HealthFERNCARE FREE CLINIC INC: $29,500 · Health+5 more: $42,090 · HealthSAY DETROIT: $635,000 · Housing & ShelterSAY DETROITLIFE REMODELED: $105,000 · Housing & ShelterLIFE REMODEL…LIFE DIRECTIONS: $30,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAND COUNTY: $585,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND …CLARENCE E PHILLIPS ASCEND ORGANIZATION INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLARENCE …BEYOND BASICS: $352,000 · EducationGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $200,000 · Arts & CultureGESHER HUMAN SERVICES: $160,000 · Employment
Other$4,219,159Health$806,090Housing & Shelter$772,500Youth Development$625,000Education$352,000Arts & Culture$200,000Employment$160,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAY DETROIT: $635,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAND COUNTY: $585,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $425,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetBEYOND BASICS: $352,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $200,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetGESHER HUMAN SERVICES: $160,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFERNDALE YOUTH ASSISTANCE: $135,000 over 6y, 75% of budgetLIFE REMODELED: $105,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetRUGIERO PROMISE FOUNDATION: $84,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetVISTA MARIA: $78,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN COMMUNICATIONS GROUP: $75,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT DOG RESCUE: $65,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetDYNAMI FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $50,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMACOMB COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCLARENCE E PHILLIPS ASCEND ORGANIZATION INC: $40,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetDETROIT2NEPAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION: $34,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLIFE DIRECTIONS: $30,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTHEAST OAKLAND COALITION: $30,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetFERNCARE FREE CLINIC INC: $29,500 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $21,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROEPER CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN YOUTH APPRECIATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHAVEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE LIKE MAX FOUNDATION: $8,800 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANT BASED NUTRITION SUPPORT GROUP: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetJOE KOCUR FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA of Metropolitan Detroit: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION BREAST DENSITY: $2,590 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetA HOLE IN THE ROOF FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM GUTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 DYNAMI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds MACOMB COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds CLARENCE E PHILLIPS ASCEND ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT2NEPAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE RAINBOW CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds LIFE DIRECTIONS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST OAKLAND COALITION ↗
  • 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 EYE CARE FOR DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN YOUTH APPRECIATION FOUNDATION ↗

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 …DTE Energy FoundationThe Barton Malow Foun…United Way for Southe…Children's Hospital o…Canton Community Foun…Ford PhilanthropyEagles for ChildrenUnited Jewish Foundat…The Jewish FundThe Carls FoundationThe Kresge Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI41.8× affinity20 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 · 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Artichoke Garlic Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Artichoke Garlic Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 71 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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