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Ascension Southeast Michigan Community Health

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care and healing.

$105k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Health$322kHuman Services$199kArts & Culture$185kCommunity Improvement$151kCivil Rights$110kEducation$95kPublic Benefit$68kHousing & Shelter$61kOther$0
02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $85,494, the rows itemized in this filing. The $105,110 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,616 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
$6,650
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL$14,650
RACING FOR KIDS$14,400
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN$13,500
GUEST HOUSE INC$12,887
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE$6,650
DETROIT MOTTEP FOUNDATION$6,500
THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER DETROIT$5,750
CHALDEAN AMERICAN LADIES OF CHARITY$5,657
MICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION$5,500
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 (FY19–23, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $10k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $8k → 21%SOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER: $11k → 8%ARAB AMER CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $10k → 8%SOCIETY ST VINCENT DEPAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE: $8k → 21%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC: $29k → 21%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS: $12k → 21%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS: $10k → 21%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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$828k · 26 repeat orgs$586k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
47

Total granted

$828k
$545k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+46%

Still filing today

88%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $62k · revenue +43%
  • CO
    CARE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    4× · 2019–2022 · $56k · revenue +13%
  • GH
    GUEST HOUSE INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $55k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORGgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $53k · revenue +838%
  • DJ
    DETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue -6%
  • VISTA MARIAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $29k · revenue +37%
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
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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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
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.…

—
5
Michigan Chamber Foundation

1) to plan and conduct nonpartisan public education programs regarding free enterprise, productivity and basic economic issues affecting the state of michigan.2) to establish and operate a leadership institute designed to provide promising…

Arts & Culture
6
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit

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7
Michigan Enviromental Council

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

Environment
8
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
9
Metro Detroit Black Chamber of Commerce Foundation

To develop programs and advocate for policies that result in profitable and sustainable black-owned businesses that are connected to public and private economic opportunities, while building trusted relationships.

—
10
Michigan Pharmacists Association

To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.

—
11
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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12
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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Links Foundation Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Edsel & Eleanor Ford House. 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

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 78 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
48/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $54,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGANNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE: $50,850 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED …URBAN LEAGUE OF DETROIT AND SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $39,241 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF DETROIT AND SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGANFOUNDATION OF MI ASSO OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN HERITAGE: $38,950 · OtherFOUNDATION OF MI ASSO OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN HERITA…SOUTHFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $29,780 · OtherVISTA MARIA: $29,072 · OtherOAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND: $22,278 · OtherGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $32,570 · OtherTHE CHALDEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $34,937 · Other+28 more: $311,131 · Other+28 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $62,120 · HealthAmerican Heart Associ…CARE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $55,949 · HealthCARE OF SOUTHEASTERN …GUEST HOUSE INC: $55,347 · HealthGUEST HOUSE INCDETROIT MOTTEP FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 · HealthDETROIT MOTTEP FOUNDA…MICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION: $14,500 · HealthRACING FOR KIDS: $14,400 · HealthFontbonne Auxiliary of St Johns: $11,000 · HealthTHE FUTURES FOUNDATION: $9,320 · Health+5 more: $38,730 · Health+5 moreDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $51,985 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPH…DETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT JAZZ …MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY: $30,880 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF AFR…Detroit Historical Society: $14,550 · Arts & CultureDetroit Histo…MICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION: $10,850 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN THAN…MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $9,701 · Arts & CultureMOTOWN HISTOR…THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $6,500 · Arts & CultureINDIA LEAGUE OF AMERICA MICHIGAN: $6,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $5,800 · Arts & CultureSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $51,265 · Human ServicesSERVICES …COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $18,020 · Human ServicesCOVENANT …ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL: $14,650 · Human ServicesZAMAN INT…TURNING POINT INC: $11,050 · Human ServicesTURNING P…LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $10,680 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUS…ARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $10,000 · Human ServicesARAB AMER…SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT: $8,190 · Human ServicesSOCIETY O…CHALDEAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC DBA CHALDEAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $35,200 · Community ImprovementGROSSE POINTE CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementMOROSS GREENWAY PROJECT: $20,000 · Community ImprovementMETROPOLITAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $6,440 · Community ImprovementASSOCIATED FOOD & PETROLEUM DEALERS INC: $6,000 · Community ImprovementINFORUM: $36,200 · EducationMACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $9,200 · EducationPEARLS OF SERVICE FOUNDATION: $9,000 · EducationBEYOND BASICS: $8,680 · EducationTHE DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORG: $52,500 · PhilanthropyROTARY CLUB OF GROSSE POINTE SUNRISE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Philanthropy
Other$668,309Health$276,866Arts & Culture$171,266Human Services$123,855Community Improvement$87,640Education$63,080Philanthropy$58,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $62,120 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $55,949 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGUEST HOUSE INC: $55,347 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $54,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORG: $52,500 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $51,985 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $51,265 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF DETROIT AND SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $39,241 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION OF MI ASSO OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN HERITAGE: $38,950 over 2y, 58% of budgetINFORUM: $36,200 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHALDEAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC DBA CHALDEAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $35,200 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetDETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHALDEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $34,937 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $32,570 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY: $30,880 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $29,780 over 2y, 11% of budgetVISTA MARIA: $29,072 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND: $22,278 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOROSS GREENWAY PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $19,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $18,020 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMACOMB COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $18,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetDETROIT MOTTEP FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetZAMAN INTERNATIONAL: $14,650 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDetroit Historical Society: $14,550 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRACING FOR KIDS: $14,400 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetHOWELL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $13,140 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC: $12,784 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTURNING POINT INC: $11,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFontbonne Auxiliary of St Johns: $11,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION: $10,850 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHALDEAN AMERICAN LADIES OF CHARITY: $10,757 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY: $10,680 over 1y, 19% of budgetARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $9,701 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUTURES FOUNDATION: $9,320 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetMACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $9,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEARLS OF SERVICE FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNEW HOPE CENTER FOR GRIEF SUPPORT INC: $8,930 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $8,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND BASICS: $8,680 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT: $8,190 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORATIO WILLIAMS FOUNDATION: $7,900 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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 FoundationUnited Way for Southe…Henry Ford Health Sys…Ford PhilanthropyThe Kresge FoundationUnited Jewish Foundat…Consumers Energy Foun…Charles Stewart Mott …The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Henry Ford Health Pro…Hudson-Webber Foundat…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI62× affinity33 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 · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Henry Ford Health System · Ford Philanthropy · The Kresge Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Henry Ford Health Providence Hospital · Hudson-Webber 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 Ascension Southeast Michigan Community Health funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ascension Southeast Michigan Community Health. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%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
    13report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Ascension Southeast Michigan Community Health 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 78 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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