· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THRIVE SCHOLARS | $10,000 |
| MACKINAC ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| KIRK GIBSON FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MAKE FOOD NOT WASTE | $10,000 |
| DETROIT PUBLIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $7,500 |
| CATCH | $5,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 46 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Daniel J Loepp Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Daniel J Loepp Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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