How much does Called to Serve give?

Called to Serve reported 9 grants totaling $12,037 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 64 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Called to Serve fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (24%), Human Services (12%), Health (12%).

Who are Called to Serve's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($8k), Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan ($5k), The Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance ($3k).

Does Called to Serve fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Called to Serve accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Called to Serve?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Kresge Foundation.

Where is Called to Serve based?

Called to Serve is based in MI.

Called to Serve

Called to Serve at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Called to Serve

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$12k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$5k

Largest

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 2023.

Food & Nutrition$24kHuman Services$12kHealth$12kInternational$11kEducation$8kReligion$7kHousing & Shelter$7kCivil Rights$4kOther$0

02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK	$587
Individual grant recipient	$500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$300
ST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER	$225
DETROIT JUSTICE CENTER	$200
CORNER SHOWER AND LAUNDRY	$150
MACKINAW AREA HISTORICAL	$75

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$83k · 71 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

71 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 64 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$83k

$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+23%

Still filing today

38%

15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionReligionHousing & ShelterHealthOther

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

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +98%
TD
THE DETROIT CATHOLIC PASTORAL ALLIANCE
6× · 2017–2022 · $3k · revenue +56%
SP
ST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $3k · revenue +74%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $1k
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RARA
one grant, 2017 · $700
WI
WAMBALE INC
one grant, 2021 · $600 · revenue +10%

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.

Michigan Enviromental Council

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

Environment

Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…

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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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Michigan Advocacy Program

To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.

Crime & Legal

Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture

Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Community Improvement

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

Urban League of Detroit and Southeastern Michigan

To enable african americans and people in need to reach their full human potential

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Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness

To serve as an inclusive statewide voice to improve systems and support communities to prevent and end homelessness in a way that leaves no one behind.

Human Services

Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice

The organization is known as the leader in the movement and is seen as the "go to" experts on environmental justice and sustainable redevelopment because of its knowledge and its network.

Health

Michigan League for Public Policy

The league's mission is to promote racial equity, economic security, health, and well being for all people in michigan through policy change.

Human Services

Michigan Humane Society

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

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alternatives for Girls; the most unlike its peers is Peace Action. 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

38 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. 38 of the 126 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/38

Grantees still filing

27/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$66,460International$9,750Food & Nutrition$7,807Human Services$7,800Religion$4,500Housing & Shelter$1,650Education$1,050

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.

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.

United Way for Southeastern MichiganMI23.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · McGregor Fund · DTE Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Called to Serve funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Called to Serve. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get 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

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home