· Community foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
We build the resources, relationships and expertise required to expand equitable access to opportunities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k136 grants · $932k
- $10k–50k463 grants · $9.3M
- $50k–250k262 grants · $27M
- $250k+77 grants · $68M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION | $6,125,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,244,995 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT | $4,434,983 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $4,213,859 |
| DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC | $3,133,223 |
| MARYGROVE CONSERVANCY | $3,115,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL OF DETROIT | $3,007,350 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $2,773,230 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $2,682,769 |
| THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $2,401,467 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,555,260 |
| V'HECHZAKTA BO | $1,150,000 |
| YESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAH | $1,108,381 |
| INVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION | $1,005,000 |
| THE CITY RESCUE MISSION OF LANSING MICHIGAN | $1,000,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $21.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% 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 7% of Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan’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 +31% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
1022 repeat relationships — 661 still active in FY2024, 361 since wound down; 216 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.3M 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
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $13M · revenue +36%- URURBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $12M · revenue +463% · 53% of their budget
DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $9.1M · revenue +51%
Funded once
- KIKABOOM INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.6M · revenue +72%
- KDKey Development Center Incone grant, 2023 · $700k · revenue -42% · 46% of their budget
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $569k · 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.
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.…
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.…
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.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors
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.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fremont Area Community Foundation 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 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
1566 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. 1566 of the 1,932 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds MARYGROVE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds V'HECHZAKTA BO ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
- Who funds DETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH OAKLAND COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR KEHILLA GROWTH ↗
- Who funds SAFE & JUST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Prosperus Detroit Micro Lending ↗
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: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Skillman Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Hudson-Webber Foundation · McGregor Fund · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · The Carls 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 Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan 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.
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation — 1% of income from government
- St Luke's Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Ave Maria University 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.