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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $146,468 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $291,540 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $145,072 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $133k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Shore Professional Baseball Legue | $35,000 |
| University of Michigan | $25,000 |
| The Henry Ford | $20,000 |
| The Children's Foundation | $15,000 |
| Gathering LLC | $13,463 |
| Henry Ford Health Systems | $12,500 |
| Bess The Books | $12,000 |
| Dearborn School Foundation | $7,000 |
| Banazi | $6,505 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of your 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.
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 +125% since the first grant, against +73% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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
- THThe Henry Ford8× · 2017–2024 · $210k
- HFHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM6× · 2017–2024 · $133k · revenue +69%
- USUnited Shore Professional Baseball Legue2× · 2023–2024 · $70k
Funded once
- LPLowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Incone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +24%
- CCCAMBRIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +57%
- SFSparrow Freedom Projectone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -15%
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.
To enhance educational opportunities for all students through a partnership of our community and its public schools.
Educational excellence in the classroom
The Foundation was formed to provide support for the school district of Saint Joseph, Its faculty & students and to promote, sponsor, and carry out educational, scientific, technological, and related activities and objectives.
Dedicated to supporting innovative, transformative learning for all students in michigan. the foundation collects, invests, and distributes funds to board designated initiatives, like the detroit promise, as part of our mission to improve…
The foundation for catholic secondary education exists to financially support education programs of catholic central high school and west catholic high through tuition assistance, faculty enhancement and program/facilities
The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.
The purpose of the endowment is to strengthen and sustain a rich faith-centered academic experience for all students at st. joseph school for years to come.
As an independent, mission-aligned partner with the edina public schools, the edina education fund secures incremental funding for district-wide programs and services that strengthen academic learning and support the whole person on their…
To promote excellence in education
To advance innovation and excellence in the Wellesley Public Schools.
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
The Cambridge School of Dallas was formed in 2001 and is a college preparatory, non-denominational christian school established for the purpose of providing academic excellence in a christ-centered environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Public Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sparrow Freedom Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 19 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
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 HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds DEARBORN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Sparrow Freedom Project ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BESS THE BOOK BUS INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Educational Advancement ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGELS OF HOPE A FAMILY CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LPS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF TAMPA FOUNDATION 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: Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Credit Unions Chartered in the State of 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bess the Book Bus 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.