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Danialle and Peter Karmanos Jr Family Foundation at a glance

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Danialle and Peter Karmanos Jr Family 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$1.2MReligion$671kRecreation & Sports$190kArts & Culture$91kYouth Development$55kHealth$51kPublic Benefit$50kPhilanthropy$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $172k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $400k
  • $250k+1 grant · $800k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$653k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$800,000
ST NICHOLAS CHURCH$150,000
ST NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH$150,000
COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES$100,000
MICHIGAN JEWISH SPORTS FOUNDATION$32,500
ARCHONS OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
THE MICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION$24,000
DOUBLE EAGLE CLUB$10,000
ARTIST ADVOCACY FOUNDATION$10,000
GREEK AMERICA FOUNDATION$10,000
ST NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH$10,000
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN$10,000
JUST FACTS INC$10,000
WDET 1019 FM$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%ARTIST ADVOCACY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%ARCHONS OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE: $30k → 17%JUST FACTS: $20k → 9%THE WASHINGTON OXIDAY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $800k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $25k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT: $50k → 21%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1k → 14%THE USA HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%DOUBLE EAGLE CLUB: $10k → 5%CO2 COALITION: $5k → 7%COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW - CFACT: $5k → 7%PRIESTS OF THE SACRED HEART: $500 → 15%ARTIST ADVOCACY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%ARCHONS OF THE ECUMENCIAL PATRIARCHATE: $30k → 17%JUST FACTS INC: $10k → 9%THE WASHINGTON OXI DAY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $25k → 8%ST NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $300k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5k → 14%DETROIT SPORTS COMMISSION: $25k → 21%AHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT: $25k → 14%GREEK AMERICA FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $25k → 14%DETROIT PBS: $500 → 8%THE MICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION: $24k → 21%ST NICHOLAS CHURCH: $150k → 8%MICHIGAN CROSSROADS COUNCIL BSA: $25k → 21%ST NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $150k → 8%COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $150k → 21%ST NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $10k → 8%COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $100k → 21%MICHIGAN JEWISH SPORTS FOUNDATION: $33k → 8%CITY YEAR INC: $25k → 21%MICHIGAN JEWISH SPORTS FOUNDATION: $33k → 8%WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 21%MICHIGAN JEWISH SPORTS FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $10k → 21%WEST BLOOMFIELD POLICE FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%THE HENRY FORD: $5k → 21%METROPOLIS OF DETROIT: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT: $40k → 21%COREWELL FOUNDATION SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $35k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 21%BELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY: $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

MI
NY
SD
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
KS
DC
TX
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 35% of Danialle and Peter Karmanos Jr Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Danialle and Peter Karmanos Jr Family 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 9 repeat orgs$587k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

$1.8M
$306k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+10%

Still filing today

67%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • DC
    DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2025 · $825k · revenue +8%
  • COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $250k · revenue +7%
  • WO
    Washington Oxi Day Foundation
    2× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • CF
    COREWELL FOUNDATION SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • AO
    ARCHONS OF THE ECUMENCIAL PATRIARCHATE
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • MC
    Michigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -18%
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
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Cleary University

To provide a business education that equips individuals to deliver superior service to employers and their communities.

Education
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
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
6
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
7
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

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8
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

American college of occupational and environmental medicine (acoem) provides leadership to promote optimal health and safety of workers, workplaces and environments by: educating health professionals and the public; stimulating research;…

Arts & Culture
9
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

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10
United States Naval Institute

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.

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11
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
12
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Year Inc; the most unlike its peers is West Bloomfield Police 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

22 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. 22 of the 45 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH: $460,000 · OtherST NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCHST NICHOLAS CHURCH: $150,000 · OtherST NICHOLAS CHURCHUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT: $90,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUITMICHIGAN JEWISH SPORTS FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherMICHIGAN JEWISH SPORTS FOUNDATION+25 more: $333,600 · Other+25 moreDETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $825,000 · EducationDETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $250,000 · EducationCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES+2 more: $22,500 · EducationWashington Oxi Day Foundation: $50,000 · Arts & CultureJUST FACTS INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION: $24,000 · Arts & CultureARTIST ADVOCACY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureAHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT: $25,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCO2 COALITION: $5,000 · EnvironmentWest Bloomfield Police Foundation: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,123,600Education$1,097,500Arts & Culture$125,000Health$51,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Community Improvement$10,000Environment$5,000Philanthropy$2,000

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 budgetDETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $825,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWashington Oxi Day Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetJUST FACTS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetMichigan Crossroads Council Inc Boy Scouts of America: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $25,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetUSA HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAHA ATTITUDE HARMONY ACHIEVEMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetARTIST ADVOCACY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCO2 COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWest Bloomfield Police Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Community Foundation …Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Raymond James Charita…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Danialle and Peter Karmanos Jr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Danialle and Peter Karmanos Jr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Danialle and Peter Karmanos Jr Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 45 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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