· Private foundation
Bingham Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF DETROIT ROWING INC | $25,000 |
| CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +106% since the first grant, against +77% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Detroit Historical Society3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +129%- DZDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY2× · 2020–2022 · $10k · revenue +106%
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation2× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- COCITY OPERA HOUSEone grant, 2019 · $150k
- NMNORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGECULINARY INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $10k
- MSMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +77%
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.
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.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
The Historical Society of Michigan will foster in citizens a deeper understanding of and appreciation for all Michigan history through programs and publications; preserve and promote Michigan history through conferences, publications,…
Promote a health care environment that supports physicians in caring for and enhancing the health of michigan citizens through science, quality, and ethics in the practice of medicine.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Detroit Experience Factory is a leading resource for both visitors and locals to discover, experience and learn about the people, places and projects around the city of Detroit.
To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart of detroit.
Discovery World educates, motivates,mobilizes and inspires the innovators and entrepreneurs of the 21st century. We connect innovation, science, and technology with exploration, environment, and our Great Lakes freshwater resources through…
Preserving the history of our area brings an understanding to the past and present, and provides a guide for the future. we not only maintain exhibits, artifacts and a research library, we provide a forum for engaging the community and…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FRIENDS OF DETROIT ROWING INC ↗
- Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds DR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC ASSOCIATES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bingham Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bingham Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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