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Comerica Charitable Trust
The COMERICA CHARITABLE TRUST is organized exclusively for the purpose of receiving and administering funds to make distributions to organizations which qualify as exempt organizations under internal revenue code 501(c)(3).
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 270 grants below total $20,482,636 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $21,302,988 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $820,352 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $279k
- $10k–50k181 grants · $3.5M
- $50k–250k40 grants · $3.5M
- $250k+10 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Society for Protestant Reformed Secondary Education | $5,000,000 |
| Global Impact | $4,015,300 |
| Chaldean Catholic Church of the USA | $1,724,997 |
| Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund | $572,661 |
| The Heritage Foundation | $450,000 |
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | $344,957 |
| Campbell Hall-Episcopal | $320,000 |
| Watertown Area Community Foundation | $300,000 |
| Fellowship of Catholic University-FOCUS | $250,000 |
| Geneva Camp & Retreat Center | $250,000 |
| BIG Love Cancer Care Services | $200,000 |
| Saint Vincent de Paul Church | $200,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | $160,000 |
| Huron Intermediate School District | $126,500 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | $125,750 |
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 (FY17–25, $4.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
313 repeat relationships — 164 still active in FY2025, 149 since wound down; 94 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.0M 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
- DZDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY2× · 2017–2019 · $1.3M · revenue +39%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $751k · revenue +33%
EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $486k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- LDLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLINDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.3M · revenue +26%
- MSMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.3M · revenue +89%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGANgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.3M · revenue +28%
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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. 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 38 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 — 0.5% 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.
553 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. 553 of the 745 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 Global Impact ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR PROTESTANT REFORMED SECONDARY EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FUND FOR CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds Jackson Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds OLIVET COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds RIVKIN CENTER FOR OVARIAN CANCER ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds BIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ALVERNO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEXT FOR AUTISM INC ↗
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: National Gift Annuity Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · The Gerber Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Michigan College Access Network · Dte Energy Foundation · American Gift Fund · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Catholic Foundation of Michigan
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 Trust 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.
- Ada Forsyth Institute Inc — 38% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Loyola University Maryland Inc — 6% of income from government
- Steps to Success Inc — 5% of income from government
- Children's Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Naples Community Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 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.