· Private foundation
Butzel Long Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k53 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH | $5,000 |
| FOCUS HOPE | $4,708 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $3,500 |
| CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN | $3,250 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN | $2,500 |
| LOVE FOR A CHILD | $2,500 |
| COHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| BEYOND BASICS | $2,000 |
| ROSA PARKS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| PULTE FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| DETROIT PUBLIC TELEVISION | $2,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE OF MICHIGAN | $2,000 |
| THE FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $1,500 |
| DETROIT BAR ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- FFOCUSHOPE8× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +40%
- BBBEYOND BASICS4× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +140%
DETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- KIKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- LALIVING AND LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2020 · $4k
- BHBeacon Health Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +586%
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.
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.…
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…
Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.
Helping healthcare get better. MPRO has more than 40 years of experience improving healthcare across the continuum of care using evidence-based and data-driven logic. MPRO also has extensive expertise in completing thoughtful and impartial…
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…
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Creating healthy communities - together
To support michigan residents' quality of life through improved dental health.
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.
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Care of Southeastern Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Pulte Family Charitable Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
90 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. 90 of the 165 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 KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSHOPE ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BASICS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds DETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROSA L PARKS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Detroit Bar Association Foundation ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH CANTON LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds Beacon Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CLARK PARK COALITION ↗
- Who funds BIRTH DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds ABC SEMI BUILD THE FUTURE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AVALON HEALING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN ↗
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 · Dte Energy Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Ford Philanthropy · The Carls Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · The Jewish Fund · Eagles for Children · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · McGregor Fund · The Skillman 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 Butzel Long Charitable Trust 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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