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Daniel J Loepp 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $575k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELASALLE COLLEGIATE | $200,000 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| MICHIGAN POLITICAL HISTORY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MI CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND | $35,000 |
| ETON ACADEMY | $27,200 |
| DETROIT HORSE POWER | $15,000 |
| KIRK GIBSON FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THRIVE SCHOLARS | $10,000 |
| MACKINAC ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE | $10,000 |
| DETROIT PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $7,500 |
| CATCH | $5,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% 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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k 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
- EAEton Academy6× · 2020–2025 · $152k · revenue +5%
- MFMAKE FOOD NOT WASTE4× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +417%
- BIBELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- DBDETROIT BELLE ISLE GRAND PRIX INCone grant, 2024 · $73k · revenue 0%
- IGIMPACT100 GLOBALone grant, 2021 · $50k
- MSMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $25k
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 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.
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
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
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.
Helping healthcare get better. MPRO has more than 40 years of experience improving healthcare across the continuum of care using evidence-based and data-driven logic. MPRO also has extensive expertise in completing thoughtful and impartial…
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
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…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Public Media and the most unlike its peers is Community House Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 46 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 Eton Academy ↗
- Who funds DETROIT BELLE ISLE GRAND PRIX INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT HORSE POWER ↗
- Who funds BELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds OLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUND OF DETROIT MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds THRIVE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Families Against Narcotics Inc DBA Face Addiction Now ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Bloomfield Art Ctr Inc ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · S Gary Spicer Sr Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · The Skillman Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Daniel J Loepp Family Foundation 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.
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.
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