· Public charity
Charity Motors Inc
To provide transportation to low-income individuals at below fair market value to help foster personal development and educational advancement in furtherance of our mission of helping those in need of transportation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $73,043 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,836,908 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,763,865 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 · FY2019
- Under $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE | $13,306 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $11,543 |
| KIDS GALA | $11,000 |
| KING OF KINGS MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE | $9,732 |
| HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM | $6,600 |
| FRIENDS IN DEED | $5,709 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPTIAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION | $5,153 |
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 (FY17–17, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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 +55% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE3× · 2017–2019 · $62k · revenue +94%- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY2× · 2017–2019 · $62k
- MTMICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2019 · $21k · revenue -17%
Funded once
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue +36%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +145%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +70%
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 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…
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
To develop and promote programs, funding, etc. for children and families.
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.
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 friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
The new foster care will show the love of jesus christ by making a measurable, meaningful, and transformative change in the michigan foster care system and in the lives of those who have experienced foster care by: 1) providing direct…
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.
The christ child society of detroit is an organization serving the metropolitan detroit and out-state areas of michigan by promoting the well-being of disadvantaged children and their families.
The make-a-wish foundation of the mid-atlantic creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.
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.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Breakloose 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 29 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 GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDSGALA A DAVID C MCKNIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SHANNON ELIZABETH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT CHAMBER WINDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN PARTY ROSS ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CELANI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE VILLAGE HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Friends In Deed ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds BREAKLOOSE INC ↗
- Who funds YATOOMA'S FOUNDATION FOR THE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN 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 · The Kresge Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Charity Motors 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.
- 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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