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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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2019
8
Itemized grants FY2019
8
Organizations funded FY2019
50%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Itemized, FY2019
$73k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2019
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$13,306
Organizations funded a year
3 to 22
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Total assets, FY2019
$1.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 50% of the organizations Charity Motors Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20198$73k50%
FY20183$44k67%
FY201722$268kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Human Services$181kHealth$72kAnimals$44kArts & Culture$29kPhilanthropy$18kReligion$17kEducation$11kYouth Development$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Charity Motors Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Grace Centers of Hope$62,09530%
The Salvation Army$61,6862n/a
Michigan Humane Society$28,41410%
Michigan Thanksgiving Parade Foundation$21,25620%
Kidsgala a David C McKnight Foundation$21,000227%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$19,52610%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$18,30810%
Oakland Christian School$10,61320%
Shannon Elizabeth Foundation$10,0001n/a
Detroit Police Athletic League Incorporated$10,00010%
King of Kings Ministry$10,0001n/a
American Red Cross$8,6581n/a
Vietnam Veterans Chapter 9$8,2641n/a
Detroit Chamber Winds Inc$8,00011%
The Garden Party Ross$7,50013%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan$7,37010%
Kensington Community Church$7,0501n/a
Celani Family Foundation Inc$7,00011%
Promise Village Home for Children$6,9001n/a
Henry Ford Health System Foundation$6,60010%
Jarc$6,4951n/a
Humane Society of Huron Valley$6,01510%
American Cancer Societyrelay for Life$5,8831n/a
Friends In Deed$5,70911%
Christian Community Action$5,50310%
Breakloose Inc$5,5001n/a
Yatooma's Foundation for the Kids Inc$5,33823%
Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation$5,15320%

Where it is load-bearing

Charity Motors Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGrace Centers of Hope: $62,095 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMichigan Humane Society: $28,414 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMichigan Thanksgiving Parade Foundation: $21,256 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKidsgala a David C McKnight Foundation: $21,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $19,526 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $18,308 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOakland Christian School: $10,613 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDetroit Police Athletic League Incorporated: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDetroit Chamber Winds Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Garden Party Ross: $7,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan: $7,370 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCelani Family Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHenry Ford Health System Foundation: $6,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Huron Valley: $6,015 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends In Deed: $5,709 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetChristian Community Action: $5,503 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYatooma's Foundation for the Kids Inc: $5,338 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Michigan Foundation: $5,153 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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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.

DTE Energy FoundationMI15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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Find your warmest path to Charity Motors 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.

About Charity Motors Inc

How much does Charity Motors Inc give?
Charity Motors Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $73,043, out of $2,836,908 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Charity Motors Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Human Services (46%), Health (18%), Animals (11%).
Who are Charity Motors Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Grace Centers of Hope ($62k), The Salvation Army ($62k), Michigan Humane Society ($28k).
Does Charity Motors Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Charity Motors Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include DTE Energy Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan.
Where is Charity Motors Inc based?
Charity Motors Inc is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports $47k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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