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Comerica Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$7.1MCommunity Improvement$5.2MPhilanthropy$1.7MHuman Services$1.6MEducation$1.3MYouth Development$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.1MHealth$646kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.6M
$269,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARITIES AID AMERICA$3,364,120
CYBERGRANTS$269,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS$15,000
HOUSTON CITIZENS CHAMBER FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Chicanos Por La Causa Inc: $25k → 11%Starfish Family Services Inc: $10k → 21%Chicanos Por La Causa Inc: $25k → 11%FORGIVING FOR LIVING INC: $10k → 14%National CARES Mentoring Movement I: $50k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%Chicanos Por La Causa INC: $23k → 11%FORGIVING FOR LIVING INC: $10k → 14%Chicanos Por La Causa Inc: $14k → 11%National Asian American Coalition: $10k → 7%Southeast Asian Community Alliance: $10k → 14%Working Solutions CDFI: $50k → 10%Working Solutions CDFI: $50k → 10%Hope through Housing Foundation HTH: $20k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas: $15k → 14%Working Solutions CDFI: $50k → 10%YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas: $12k → 14%Working Solutions CDFI: $50k → 10%YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas: $12k → 14%African American Community Services Agency: $15k → 8%African American Community Services Agency: $13k → 8%ABILITYFIRST: $25k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $20k → 14%Neighborhood Recovery Community Development Corporation: $25k → 16%Neighborhood Recovery Community Development Corporation: $25k → 16%Change Happens: $15k → 16%ALTERNATIVE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10k → 10%Southeast Asian Community Center: $20k → 10%Project Still I Rise Inc: $25k → 14%Koreatown Youth And Community Center Inc: $30k → 14%Koreatown Youth And Community Center Inc: $30k → 14%YMCA Of Metropolitan Dallas: $15k → 14%Why Can't We Make A Difference Foundation: $15k → 14%YMCA Of Metropolitan Dallas: $15k → 14%Why Cant We Make A Difference Foundation: $15k → 14%Project Still I Rise Inc: $25k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $20k → 14%Project Still I Rise Inc: $25k → 14%Project Still I Rise Inc: $25k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $25k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $25k → 14%Arab Community Center For Economic: $44k → 21%Arab Community Center For Economic & Social Services Access: $34k → 21%Arab Community Center For Economic: $32k → 21%Arab Community Center For Economic & Social Services Access: $20k → 21%Arab Community Center For Economic & Social Services Access: $20k → 21%Detroit Police Athletic League Inc: $20k → 21%Detroit Police Athletic League Inc: $10k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Comerica Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Comerica Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 313 repeat orgs$7.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

313 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 313 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

313
395

Total granted

$11M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+23%

Still filing today

80%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    3× · 2021–2023 · $900k · revenue +19%
  • TM
    THE MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2022 · $328k · revenue +83%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COLLEGE RESOURCES FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $275k · revenue +203%

Funded once

  • CS
    CyberGrants SPV LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $189k
  • LA
    Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - B
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • DR
    DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +3%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Community Education Commission

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.

Education
2
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
3
Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation

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,…

Employment
4
Diploma Equity Project

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.

Education
5
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
6
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
7
Community Development Technologies Center

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…

Community Improvement
8
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit

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9
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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10
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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11
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

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…

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12
Local Circles

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amplify Gr; 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.
05the grantee network

521 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 521 of the 722 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
132
Early backer (in before they grew)
507/521
Grantees still filing
354/521
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHARITIES AID AMERICA: $3,364,120 · OtherCHARITIES AID AMERICACYBERGRANTS: $269,500 · Other+88 more: $3,994,600 · Other+88 moreCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $3,563,901 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AM…LOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $200,000 · Philanthropy+14 more: $779,033 · Philanthropy+14 moreTHE MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $327,500 · Community ImprovementTHE MICHIGAN WOMEN…Greater Dallas Momentum Foundation: $250,000 · Community ImprovementGreater Dallas Mom…DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT REGIONAL P…LIFTFUND INC: $175,000 · Community ImprovementLIFTFUND INCBUSINESS AND COMMUNITY LENDERS OF TEXAS: $150,000 · Community ImprovementAmpac Tri-State CDC Inc: $140,000 · Community ImprovementACCESSITY: $110,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP: $100,000 · Community Improvement+32 more: $1,541,587 · Community Improvement+32 moreWORKING SOLUTIONS CDFI: $200,000 · Human ServicesARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $162,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT STILL I RISE INC: $135,000 · Human ServicesCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $96,000 · Human ServicesABILITYFIRST: $95,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $94,000 · Human ServicesKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $60,000 · Human ServicesDETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $55,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD RECOVERY COMMUNIT DEVELOPMENT CORP: $50,000 · Human ServicesNational Cares Mentoring Movement Inc: $50,000 · Human Services+17 more: $488,200 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $900,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNATIONAL COLLEGE RESOURCES FOUNDATION: $275,000 · EducationDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $116,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE: $70,000 · EducationWINNING FUTURES: $55,000 · EducationMichigan Colleges Alliance: $50,000 · EducationTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationHARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $37,500 · EducationCOMERICA CARES FUND: $34,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $33,000 · Education+8 more: $164,000 · EducationNEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP HOUSING SERVICES INC: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterNew Hope Housing Inc: $72,000 · Housing & ShelterU-SNAP-BAC INCORPORATED: $55,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL FAITH HOMEBUYERS: $50,500 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY: $34,500 · Housing & ShelterAFFORDABLE HOUSING CLEARINGHOUSE: $30,580 · Housing & ShelterA COMMUNITY OF FRIENDS: $24,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOODS INC OF BATTLE CREEK: $22,500 · Housing & ShelterBLUE TRIANGLE MULTICULTURAL: $22,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$7,628,220Philanthropy$4,542,934Community Improvement$2,994,087Human Services$1,485,200Public Safety & Disaster$900,000Education$875,000Housing & Shelter$386,080

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $3,563,901 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $900,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $327,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetNATIONAL COLLEGE RESOURCES FOUNDATION: $275,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetGreater Dallas Momentum Foundation: $250,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetBUSINESS LEADERS FOR MICHIGAN: $226,236 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetDETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES BROTHERHOOD CRUSADE - BLACK UNITED FUND INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWORKING SOLUTIONS CDFI: $200,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetLIFTFUND INC: $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $162,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBUSINESS AND COMMUNITY LENDERS OF TEXAS: $150,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $140,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmpac Tri-State CDC Inc: $140,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT STILL I RISE INC: $135,000 over 4y, 55% of budgetTHE DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORG: $117,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $116,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetNEW DETROIT INC: $115,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetACCESSITY: $110,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BRIDGEPATH: $100,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetDETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP: $100,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetRIGHT PLACE FOUNDATION: $99,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN: $96,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetCHICANOS POR LA CAUSA INC CPLC: $96,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Strategic Economic Studies and Institutional Development: $95,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetABILITYFIRST: $95,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $94,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetICAFUND: $85,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetASIAN INC: $85,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAPA FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES: $77,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMain Street Launch: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP HOUSING SERVICES INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: $74,920 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNew Hope Housing Inc: $72,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBLACK UNITED FUND OF MICHIGAN INC: $70,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetHORATIO WILLIAMS FOUNDATION: $69,444 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetALTAMED HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION: $62,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREENLINING INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER PONTIAC COMMUNITY COALITION: $60,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetABIGAYLE MINISTRIES: $60,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetENTREPRENEUR EDUCATIONAL CENTE: $60,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 FoundationConsumers Energy Foun…United Way for Southe…Community Foundation …Ford PhilanthropyMichigan Health Endow…Mufg Union Bank Found…The Skillman Foundati…The Carls FoundationFlagstar Foundation I…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Harry a and Margaret …
DTE Energy FoundationMI120.3× affinity105 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Comerica Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Comerica Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
65report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 722 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home