· Public charity
Celani Family Foundation Inc
To provide financial assistance to the underprivileged as well as bring awareness to the issues facing the underprivileged, especially underprivileged children.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $668,631 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $704,143 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,512 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $89k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $330k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CIGAR FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| THE CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN | $101,000 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC | $100,000 |
| ANGELS OF HOPE | $66,176 |
| BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $62,500 |
| THE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $26,250 |
| THE KIEFER FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| DYNAMI FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY | $10,205 |
| CHALDEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KIRK GIBSON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% 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.
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 +94% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- CFCIGAR FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +109%
- VRVETS RETURNING HOME INC5× · 2018–2022 · $115k · revenue +18%
- AOANGELS OF HOPE A FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2024 · $76k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- VOVILLAGE OF CHESANINGone grant, 2022 · $75k
- MGMCLAREN GREATER LANSING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +12%
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.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Diref enchances cross-cultural understanding, develops contacts, and opens channels of communication for investment and other business activities by promoting, supporting, and administering educational and research programs in healthcare…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
The mission of the dominican hospital foundation is to ensure that philanthropic resources are available to respond to and support the changing health care needs of the people within the area served by dignity health dba dominican…
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
To accelerate breakthroughs by providing today's best young scientists with funding to pursue innovative cancer research. the foundation's goals are to identify and fund the best and brightest early-career scientists in cancer research;…
Detroit regional chamber foundation, inc. (the "foundation") is dedicated to growing programs or initiatives that are important to ensuring the detroit region's economy is one of the fastest growing in the u.s.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
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…
The organization works with k-12, higher education and other community partners to design and implement programs to improve rates of college persistence and completion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dynami Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 42 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 CIGAR FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETS RETURNING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF HOPE A FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eton Academy ↗
- Who funds DYNAMI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES ↗
- Who funds RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Kiefer Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF PAL PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE CHALDEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PAL FUNDRAISING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE KIRK GIBSON CENTER FOR PARKINSON'S WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds Angel View Inc ↗
- Who funds Food Now Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FALLEN HERO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND ↗
- Who funds DESERT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RUGIERO PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Jewish Foundation · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Ford Philanthropy · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Celani Family 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.
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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