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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.

$322k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$265kArts & Culture$215kRecreation & Sports$165kHuman Services$156kYouth Development$145kFood & Nutrition$88kPublic Safety & Disaster$82kCommunity Improvement$67kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 26 grants below total $247,585, the rows itemized in this filing. The $322,041 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $74,456 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $127k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
$8,013
Median grant
2
States reached
$711k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF WAYNE: $11k → 21%CHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY: $9k → 21%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $9k → 21%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $8k → 21%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $8k → 21%CHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY: $7k → 21%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY: $7k → 21%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 21%DUTTON FARMS: $8k → 8%OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $9k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $8k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $7k → 8%LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $6k → 8%JARC: $8k → 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 29 repeat orgs$221k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
19

Total granted

$1.1M
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+46%

Still filing today

55%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +12%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAND COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +39%
  • RO
    ROYAL OAK CIVIC FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $67k · revenue +264%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +46%
  • BS
    BERKLEY STEELERS FOOTBALL TEAMS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -29%
  • OH
    OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -15%
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
Detroit Regional Chamber

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.

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2
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.…

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3
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
4
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
5
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
6
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
7
The Greater Detroit Health Transition Company

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.…

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8
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
9
Organ Procurement Agency of Michigan

We honor life through donation.

—
10
Mymichigan Health Foundation

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…

Health
11
Detroit Athletic Club

To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart of detroit.

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12
Delta Dental Fund

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.

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

52 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. 52 of the 55 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
32/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROYAL OAK TITANS FOOTBALL TEAM INC: $71,619 · OtherROYAL OAK TITANS FOOTBALL TEAM INCTEAM HAPPY FEET: $40,906 · OtherTEAM HAPPY FEETVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA: $29,750 · OtherCOTS COMMUNITY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION: $29,750 · OtherROYAL OAK HIGH SCHOOL CHEER: $28,591 · OtherRAY AND PHYLLIS FOUNDATION: $28,146 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $24,800 · OtherRoyal Oak Football Teams Inc: $23,602 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $22,550 · OtherROYAL OAK DRAMA BOOSTERS: $22,367 · OtherDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC: $44,700 · OtherDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INCSOLDIERS' ANGELS: $27,375 · OtherHAVEN INC: $25,408 · Other+25 more: $228,429 · Other+25 moreTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION: $46,000 · HealthTHE RAINBOW …WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL: $44,475 · HealthWILLIAM BEAU…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $34,500 · HealthAMERICAN CAN…AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $21,800 · HealthAUTISM ALLIA…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthWINTER BLAST FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Arts & CultureWINTER BLAST…STAGECRAFTERS: $51,567 · Arts & CultureSTAGECRAFTER…GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $5,867 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $57,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS C…LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $29,125 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $24,775 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 · Human ServicesOPEN HANDS …JARC: $8,000 · Human ServicesJARCDUTTON FARM: $7,500 · Human ServicesDUTTON FARMFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $74,591 · Food & NutritionBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAND COUNTY: $70,400 · Youth DevelopmentROYAL OAK CIVIC FOUNDATION: $67,164 · Community Improvement
Other$647,993Health$147,775Arts & Culture$147,434Human Services$136,400Food & Nutrition$74,591Youth Development$70,400Community Improvement$67,164

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWINTER BLAST FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 5y, 78% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $74,591 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAND COUNTY: $70,400 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetROYAL OAK CIVIC FOUNDATION: $67,164 over 4y, 21% of budgetCHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $57,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTAGECRAFTERS: $51,567 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION: $46,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC: $44,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL: $44,475 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $34,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $29,125 over 4y, 15% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS: $27,375 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN INC: $25,408 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $24,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $24,775 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRoyal Oak Football Teams Inc: $23,602 over 1y, 26% of budgetAUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $21,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTARLITES PARENT CLUB: $15,502 over 4y, 90% of budgetFERNDALE SCHOOLS FINE ARTS BOOSTERS: $12,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetBERKLEY STEELERS FOOTBALL TEAMS INC: $12,012 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetOPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetALMOST HOME FOUNDATION: $8,489 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMICHIGAN PET ALLIANCE: $7,593 over 1y, 13% of budgetDUTTON FARM: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLUTHERAN ADOPTION SERVICE: $6,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $5,867 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDETROIT ROLLER DERBY: $5,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHope Ignites Detroit: $5,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $5,408 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLEMAN A YOUNG FOUNDATION: $1,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $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 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 ↗

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 …United Way for Southe…DTE Energy FoundationThe Kresge FoundationFord PhilanthropyChildren's Hospital o…Michigan Health Endow…Phillip and Elizabeth…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Consumers Energy Foun…The Jewish FundThe Carls Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI35.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Arts Beats & Eats Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arts Beats & Eats 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Arts Beats & Eats Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Arts Beats & Eats Foundation 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.

    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 55 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 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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