· Public charity
Arts Beats & Eats Foundation
To raise funds to be disbursed to primarily southeastern michigan irc code section 501(c)(3) charities while promoting cultural exchanges within oakland county and southeastern michigan.
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.
The 26 grants below total $247,585 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $322,041 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $74,456 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVENCY | $19,700 |
| ROYAL OAK CIVIC FOUNDATION | $18,164 |
| BERKLEY BEARS FOOTBALL BOOSTERS | $18,063 |
| ROYAL OAK TITANS FOOTBALL TEAM INC | $15,589 |
| RAY & PHYLLIS FOUNDATION | $13,261 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $12,190 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $12,000 |
| METRO DETROIT YOUTH CLUB | $11,150 |
| ROYAL OAK HIGH SCHOOL CHEER | $9,758 |
| STAGECRAFTERS | $8,750 |
| TEAM HAPPY FEET | $8,750 |
| ALMOST HOME | $8,489 |
| ROYAL OAK FOOTBALL TEAMS INC | $8,013 |
| FERNDALE HIGH SCHOOL FINE ART BOOSTERS | $7,250 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $6,800 |
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, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +12%- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAND COUNTY7× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +39%
- ROROYAL OAK CIVIC FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $67k · revenue +264%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +46%
- BSBERKLEY STEELERS FOOTBALL TEAMS INCone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -29%
- OHOPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -15%
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.
The chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.
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.…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
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.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…
Creating healthy communities - together
We honor life through donation.
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…
To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart of detroit.
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Starlites Parent Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 55 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 WINTER BLAST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ROYAL OAK CIVIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STAGECRAFTERS ↗
- Who funds THE RAINBOW CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS' ANGELS ↗
- Who funds HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Royal Oak Football Teams Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds STARLITES PARENT CLUB ↗
- Who funds FERNDALE SCHOOLS FINE ARTS BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds BERKLEY STEELERS FOOTBALL TEAMS INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ALMOST HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN PET ALLIANCE ↗
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 · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Jewish Fund · The Carls 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 Arts Beats & Eats 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.
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