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Comerica Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARITIES AID AMERICA | $3,364,120 |
| CYBERGRANTS | $269,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $15,000 |
| HOUSTON CITIZENS CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Comerica Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
314 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 314 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M 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
- TMTHE MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2022 · $328k · revenue +83%
- NCNATIONAL COLLEGE RESOURCES FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $275k · revenue +203%
- WSWORKING SOLUTIONS CDFI4× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- CSCyberGrants SPV LLCone grant, 2024 · $189k
- DRDETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +3%
- LALos Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Bone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.
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 mission of desc is to cultivate local workforce talent to align with the needs of the business community through partnerships with key workforce agencies, faith- and community- based organizations, education and training institutions,…
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.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
To build livable and economically viable communities in the low income areas of This is accomplished by Greater Los Angeles strengthening the skils and self-sufficiency of residents, businesses of residents, businesses and community…
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
Local circles offers young detroiters an employment opportunity in youth- led research. by employing youth to do research, local circles intervenes on two simultaneous social issues facing young detroiters today: youth unemployment and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amplify Gr and the most unlike its peers is Luella Hannan Memorial Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
521 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. 521 of the 723 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE RESOURCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Dallas Momentum Foundation ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS LEADERS FOR MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds WORKING SOLUTIONS CDFI ↗
- Who funds DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LIFTFUND INC ↗
- Who funds ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY LENDERS OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Ampac Tri-State CDC Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT STILL I RISE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORG ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESSITY ↗
- Who funds DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGEPATH ↗
- Who funds RIGHT PLACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds ABILITYFIRST ↗
- Who funds The Center for Strategic Economic Studies and Institutional Development ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds ICAFUND ↗
- Who funds ASIAN INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST 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.
Open a dossier: Dte Energy Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ford Philanthropy · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · The Skillman Foundation · The Carls Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation
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 Comerica Charitable Foundation 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.
- Florida Community Loan Fund Inc — 31% of income from government
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% 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.