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Canton Community Foundation Inc

Helping people achieve their philanthropic goals that reflect the values and interests that enhance their community.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
112
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$1.1MHuman Services$1.0MHealth$766kYouth Development$567kRecreation & Sports$238kArts & Culture$197kCommunity Improvement$188kFood & Nutrition$153kOther$0
02FY2025 · 112 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 112 grants below total $1,234,019 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,101,690 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $867,671 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k62 grants · $469k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $765k
$9,450
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST STEP-WAYNE COUNTY PROJECT$41,020
SALVATION ARMY$24,000
CAMP CASEY$23,170
THE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST$22,691
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$21,000
VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY$21,000
NEW HOPE CENTER FOR GRIEF SUPPORT$19,600
NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES$19,500
HIGH 5$19,420
FLEECE AND THANK YOU$19,000
GIRLS MATTER$18,481
PROJECT FEED THE KIDS$18,000
LOST VOICES$17,965
GIFTS FOR ALL GOD'S CHILDREN$17,035
REDFORD BRIGHTMOOR INITIATIVE$17,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $909k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS: $16k → 5%MITTENS FOR DETROIT: $16k → 8%GROWTH WORKS: $47k → 21%MITTENS FOR DETROIT: $14k → 8%FIRST STEP-WAYNE COUNTY PROJECT: $41k → 21%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $20k → 10%MITTENS FOR DETROIT: $12k → 8%KIDS ON THE GO: $14k → 10%GENERATIONS AHEAD: $12k → 10%SUSIE Q'S KIDS INC: $12k → 10%FIRST STEP-WAYNE COUNTY PROJECT: $23k → 21%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE: $10k → 10%SUSIE Q'S KIDS INC: $9k → 10%FIRST STEP-WAYNE COUNTY PROJECT: $21k → 21%NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE: $10k → 10%SUSIE Q'S KIDS INC: $8k → 10%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $9k → 10%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $12k → 14%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $9k → 14%FIRST STEP-WAYNE COUNTY PROJECT: $11k → 21%FIRST STEP-WAYNE COUNTY PROJECT: $11k → 21%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY RESPONSE TEAM: $14k → 8%SAMARITAS: $8k → 21%CAMP CASEY: $24k → 8%CAMP CASEY: $23k → 8%CAMP CASEY: $21k → 8%HURON VALLEY BLESSINGS IN A: $14k → 8%CHRIST CHILD HOUSE OF DETROIT: $14k → 21%HURON VALLEY BLESSINGS IN A: $10k → 8%HIGHER HOPES: $21k → 8%HIGHER HOPES: $9k → 8%CHRIST CHILD HOUSE OF DETROIT: $14k → 21%LIVING AND LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENT: $25k → 8%LIVING AND LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENT: $16k → 8%CHRIST CHILD HOUSE OF DETROIT: $13k → 21%LIVING AND LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENT: $15k → 8%GIVING SONGS: $11k → 8%GIVING SONGS: $9k → 8%THE EMILY ANN GRIFFIN FOUNDATION: $18k → 21%THE EMILY ANN GRIFFIN FOUNDATION: $16k → 21%THE EMILY ANN GRIFFIN FOUNDATION: $15k → 21%CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT: $11k → 8%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $13k → 8%JUDSON CENTER: $12k → 8%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $11k → 8%JUDSON CENTER: $10k → 8%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $10k → 8%JUDSON CENTER: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 106 repeat orgs$588k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

106 repeat relationships — 87 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

106
36

Total granted

$4.1M
$386k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
0%

Still filing today

75%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

  • FS
    First Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault
    9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +37%
  • GM
    GIRLS MATTER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $68k · revenue +31%
  • CC
    CAMP CASEY CORPORATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $68k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • GW
    GROWTH WORKS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $47k · revenue +17%
  • PT
    PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • TK
    THE KIRK GIBSON FOUNDATION FOR
    one grant, 2021 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Association for Children's Mental Health

To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.

Health
2
Detroit Institute for Children

We empower children to overcome challenges.

Health
3
Detroit Parent Network

To be a champion for parents of children in the community.

Human Services
4
Michigan's Children

To ensure that policymakers prioritize the needs of the most challenged children from cradle to career.

Human Services
5
The Youth Connection Inc

The Youth Connection is committed to connecting all youth and their families in metro Detroit to a brighter future by providing quality programs and supportive services.

Youth Development
6
Michigan Child Care Centers Inc

Touching hearts, teaching minds, changing lives

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7
Michigan Family Resources

Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.

Education
8
Team Be Better

To provide education and consultations that are family-centered and to ensure continued family involvement in mental health care through advocacy and provider network.

Health
9
Reaching Our Community Kids

The mission of the ROCK Center for Youth Development is to "Build hope and resilience in youth based on a foundation of acceptance, support, and respect that results in positive life choices."

Youth Development
10
Community Pride Mi
Public Benefit
11
Growing Hope Through Love

Growing hope through love is organized as a child welfare agency that maintains a child placing agency license through the department of child welfare licensing and contracts with michigan department of health and human services to license…

Human Services
12
Child and Family Services of the Upper Peninsula Inc

To strengthen, nuture and empower children and families for a brighter future by providing programs that preserve the dignity and enhance the well-being of families throughout michigan's upper peninsula, in a caring, compassionate and…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rainbow Connection and the most unlike its peers is The Rock of Kingsley Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealthcare Systems and Prof…Community Performing ArtsAffordable Housing Develope…Faith-Based Humanitarian Se…Youth Sports & Recreation P…Youth & Family Support Serv…Detroit Economic DevelopmentDetroit Community Support S…Jewish Community Philanthro…Regional Economic Developme…Developmental Disability Re…Community Health and Suppor…Michigan Civic Infrastructu…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%6%<5yr15%10%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr14%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%4%<5yr15%11%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr12%15%35–55yr14%19%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/164
the rest of the field
17%
3,335/19,815

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.

04the grantee network

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 127 of the 164 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/127
Grantees still filing
72/127
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $297,895 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANPLYMOUTH-CANTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLS — $238,984 · OtherPLYMOUTH-CANTON COMMUNITY SCHOOLSCHARTER TOWNSHIP OF CANTON MI — $128,909 · OtherCHARTER TOWNSHIP OF CANTON MI+71 more — $1,527,926 · Other+71 moreFirst Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault — $135,366 · Human ServicesFirst Step The Western …CAMP CASEY CORPORATION — $67,743 · Human ServicesCAMP CASEY CORPORATIONLIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER — $62,250 · Human ServicesLIVING & LEARNING ENRIC…THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT — $57,464 · Human ServicesTHE CHRIST CHILD SOCIET…BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $54,873 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK…EMILY ANN GRIFFIN FOUNDATION — $48,690 · Human ServicesGROWTH WORKS INC — $46,820 · Human ServicesMITTENS FOR DETROIT INC — $41,031 · Human ServicesHIGHER HOPES — $35,500 · Human ServicesCHILD SAFE MICHIGAN — $33,646 · Human ServicesGENERATIONS AHEAD — $32,000 · Human Services+25 more — $333,099 · Human Services+25 moreGIRLS MATTER — $68,058 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS MATTE…THE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST INC — $44,007 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOTTOML…LOST VOICES — $43,715 · Youth DevelopmentLOST VOICESTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM — $41,134 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MIDNIGH…BRILLIANT DETROIT — $39,701 · Youth DevelopmentBRILLIANT D…YOUNG LIFE — $31,186 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFEDETROIT YOUTH GOLF — $29,451 · Youth DevelopmentDETROIT YOU…FLEECE & THANK YOU — $29,000 · Youth DevelopmentFLEECE & TH…FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT — $25,535 · Youth DevelopmentFREE BIKES …THE ROCK OF KINGSLEY INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ROCK OF…WISH UPON A TEEN — $22,367 · Youth DevelopmentTHE POWER COMPANY KIDS CLUB — $20,414 · Youth DevelopmentYouth for Christ of Detroit — $17,650 · Youth Development+2 more — $28,199 · Youth Development+2 moreNEW HOPE CENTER FOR GRIEF SUPPORT INC — $63,987 · HealthNEW HOPE C…THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES — $59,912 · HealthTHE NEW DA…CHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN — $46,703 · HealthCHILDREN'S…CARING ATHLETES TEAM FOR CHILDREN'S AND HENRY FORD HOSPITALS — $45,101 · HealthCARING ATH…Penrickton Center for Blind Children — $35,841 · HealthPenrickton…GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC — $34,374 · HealthGIGI'S PLA…Courageous Kids Inc — $31,600 · HealthCourageous…JENNA KAST BELIEVE IN MIRACLES FOUNDATION — $29,250 · HealthJENNA KAST…HAVEN EILEEN KILEY FOUNDATION INC — $25,010 · HealthHAVEN EILE…MICHAEL'S PLACE — $24,500 · HealthMICHAEL'S …THE GUIDANCE CENTER — $23,400 · Health+3 more — $29,345 · Health+3 moreBEYOND BASICS — $49,132 · EducationTHE NEW COMMON SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $48,244 · EducationBRIDGEPOINTE INC — $33,222 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR - MOTOR CITY INC — $30,000 · EducationMath Corps — $26,167 · EducationCedarville University — $23,250 · EducationGOLF ASSOC OF MICH FOUNDATION INC — $22,000 · EducationNORTH MECKLENBURG CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — $17,000 · EducationEASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationHOPE COLLEGE — $15,000 · EducationCommunity Literacy Council Inc — $13,003 · Education+3 more — $25,850 · EducationGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT — $38,149 · Arts & CulturePARTNERSHIP FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES INC — $35,996 · Arts & CultureTRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A TRAVERSE CITY PHILHARMONIC — $24,500 · Arts & CultureThe Great Lakes Childrens Museum — $23,150 · Arts & CulturePLYMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $19,754 · Arts & CultureDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM — $37,301 · Recreation & SportsMIRACLE LEAGUE OF PLYMOUTH INC — $31,600 · Recreation & SportsNORTH OAKLAND SCAMP FUNDING CORP — $30,023 · Recreation & SportsINCLUSIVELY FIT FOUNDATION — $23,400 · Recreation & SportsHIGH 5IVE-THE DREW STANTON FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · Recreation & SportsRACQUET UP DETROIT — $6,572 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,193,714Human Services$948,482Youth Development$465,417Health$449,023Education$317,868Arts & Culture$141,549Recreation & Sports$136,396

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFirst Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault — $135,366 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetGIRLS MATTER — $68,058 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetCAMP CASEY CORPORATION — $67,743 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetNEW HOPE CENTER FOR GRIEF SUPPORT INC — $63,987 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetLIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER — $62,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN DBA VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY — $61,716 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES — $59,912 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT — $57,464 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $54,873 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBEYOND BASICS — $49,132 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEMILY ANN GRIFFIN FOUNDATION — $48,690 over 3y, 17% of budgetTHE NEW COMMON SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $48,244 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGROWTH WORKS INC — $46,820 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN — $46,703 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetREDFORD BRIGHTMOOR INITIATIVE — $46,655 over 3y, 10% of budgetGIFTS FOR ALL GODS CHILDREN — $45,649 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCARING ATHLETES TEAM FOR CHILDREN'S AND HENRY FORD HOSPITALS — $45,101 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION — $44,766 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST INC — $44,007 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetLOST VOICES — $43,715 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM — $41,134 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMITTENS FOR DETROIT INC — $41,031 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT — $39,701 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT — $38,149 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM — $37,301 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES INC — $35,996 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetPenrickton Center for Blind Children — $35,841 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHIGHER HOPES — $35,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetGIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC — $34,374 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHumble Design Inc — $33,944 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD SAFE MICHIGAN — $33,646 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBRIDGEPOINTE INC — $33,222 over 3y, 31% of budgetGENERATIONS AHEAD — $32,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFAR CONSERVATORY OF THERAPEUTIC AND PERFORMING ARTS — $31,815 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCourageous Kids Inc — $31,600 over 3y, 19% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF PLYMOUTH INC — $31,600 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetVISTA MARIA — $31,569 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUDSON CENTER INC — $31,520 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $31,186 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE REMODELED — $31,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH OAKLAND SCAMP FUNDING CORP — $30,023 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR - MOTOR CITY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetSUSIE QS KIDS INC — $29,469 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetDETROIT YOUTH GOLF — $29,451 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetJENNA KAST BELIEVE IN MIRACLES FOUNDATION — $29,250 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetFLEECE & THANK YOU — $29,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGIVING SONGS INC — $26,273 over 3y, 23% of budgetMath Corps — $26,167 over 3y, 0.8% of budget
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 First Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS MATTER ↗
  • Who funds CAMP CASEY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE CENTER FOR GRIEF SUPPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VARIETY CLUB CHARITY FOR CHILDREN DBA VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND BASICS ↗
  • Who funds EMILY ANN GRIFFIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW COMMON SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GROWTH WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds REDFORD BRIGHTMOOR INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds GIFTS FOR ALL GODS CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds CARING ATHLETES TEAM FOR CHILDREN'S AND HENRY FORD HOSPITALS ↗
  • Who funds LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST INC ↗
  • Who funds LOST VOICES ↗
  • Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC ↗
  • Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Penrickton Center for Blind Children ↗
  • Who funds HIGHER HOPES ↗
  • Who funds GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Humble Design Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILD SAFE 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.

Eagles for ChildrenCommunity Foundation …Children's Hospital o…United Way for Southe…Dte Energy FoundationThe Barton Malow Foun…The Carls FoundationFord PhilanthropyPhillip and Elizabeth…Grand Traverse Region…Consumers Energy Foun…Detroit Industrial Sc…
Eagles for ChildrenMI110.8× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eagles for Children · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · The Carls Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Detroit Industrial School

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 Canton Community Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Canton Community Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Canton Community Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 164 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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    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 camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home
    State money flows
    the interactive map of money crossing state lines