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Deroy Testamentary Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$15M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$19MHealth$17MArts & Culture$1.2MHuman Services$1.1MAnimals$880kYouth Development$365kHousing & Shelter$345kRecreation & Sports$321kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $793k
  • $250k+2 grants · $16M
$71,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSPIRATIONAL FUTURES FOUNDATION INC$15,000,000
DEROY EDUCATION PARTNERS$500,000
ZEKELMAN HOLOCAUST CENTER$180,000
GESHER HUMAN SERVICES$125,000
CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY$116,680
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY$100,000
FRESH AIR SOCIETY$75,000
SHAW FESTIVAL FOUNDATION$75,000
BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE$71,500
COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES$50,000
COMMUNITY HOUSE$45,000
JARC$30,000
ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL AND ACADEMY$20,000
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY HILLEL$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $824k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL: $20k → 6%BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL: $20k → 6%CARIDAD CENTER: $27k → 11%CARIDAD CENTER INC: $25k → 11%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $25k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $50k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $50k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $40k → 21%JSL FOUNDATION: $30k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $8k → 8%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $8k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $80k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $35k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $33k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 8%ACCESS - ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $5k → 21%ACCESS: $5k → 21%CHRIST CHILD HOUSE OF DETROIT: $25k → 21%ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $25k → 8%ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $25k → 8%ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $20k → 8%ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $20k → 8%JARC: $40k → 8%JARC: $40k → 8%JARC: $40k → 8%JARC: $35k → 8%JARC: $30k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
MI
NY
CT
CA
CO
KY
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24M · 73 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

73 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
35

Total granted

$24M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+4%

Still filing today

77%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $634k · revenue +15%
  • DZ
    DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $485k · revenue +106%
  • HM
    HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $460k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • WS
    WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $335k
  • TH
    TRINITY HEALTH OAKLAND
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • RH
    ROSE HILL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $61k · revenue -6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
3
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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4
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
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
Detroit Regional Chamber

The chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.

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7
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
8
United Jewish Foundation

The united jewish foundation of detroit owns, manages and invests jewish communal assets, including general and endowment funds, agency endowments, supporting foundations and real property. the foundation is committed to ensuring that…

Philanthropy
9
Detroit Jews for Justice

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

Civil Rights
10
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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11
Delta Dental Fund

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.

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12
The Detroit Creativity Project

The detroit creativity project ("dcp") seeks to empower and inspire detroit's young people through improvisation, an art form that helps people build confidence and develop a creative and collaborative approach to their lives.

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Deroy Education Partners. 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 43 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%18%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr12%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%81%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr19%3%20–35yr12%3%35–55yr12%10%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 81% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/93
the rest of the field
14%
6,698/47,566

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.

04the grantee network

88 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. 88 of the 116 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/88
Grantees still filing
62/88
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DEROY EDUCATION PARTNERS — $16,000,000 · EducationDEROY EDUCATION PARTNERSCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $634,180 · Education+10 more — $1,335,244 · Education+10 moreINSPIRATIONAL FUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $15,000,000 · HealthINSPIRATIONAL FUTURES FOUNDATION INC+8 more — $474,012 · HealthVISTA MARIA — $400,000 · OtherVISTA MARI…WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — $335,000 · OtherWAYNE STAT…MICHIGAN HUMANE — $295,000 · OtherMICHIGAN H…TRINITY HEALTH OAKLAND — $200,000 · OtherST JOSEPH MERCY OAKLAND — $158,400 · OtherFRESH AIR SOCIETY — $275,000 · OtherFRESH AIR …RACQUET UP DETROIT — $225,000 · OtherRACQUET UP…GESHER HUMAN SERVICES — $245,000 · OtherGESHER HUM…CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC — $140,000 · Other+52 more — $1,624,213 · Other+52 moreHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC — $460,000 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $164,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $90,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $80,000 · Arts & CultureINSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT — $60,000 · Arts & CultureBLUE LAKE FINE ARTS CAMP — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $187,200 · Arts & CultureJARC — $185,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN — $140,000 · Human ServicesOAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES — $130,000 · Human ServicesORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $82,280 · Human ServicesCaridad Center Inc — $52,000 · Human ServicesBROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesJSL FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Human Services+4 more — $75,091 · Human ServicesHENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION — $325,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $225,000 · PhilanthropySHAW FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $75,000 · PhilanthropyCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS — $42,000 · PhilanthropyDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $485,000 · AnimalsMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $100,000 · Animals
Education$17,969,424Health$15,474,012Other$3,897,613Arts & Culture$1,091,200Human Services$824,371Philanthropy$667,000Animals$585,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDEROY EDUCATION PARTNERS — $16,000,000 over 4y, 96% of budgetINSPIRATIONAL FUTURES FOUNDATION INC — $15,000,000 over 1y, 98% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $634,180 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $485,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC — $460,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetBEYOND BASICS — $415,640 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetVISTA MARIA — $400,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION — $325,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetFRESH AIR SOCIETY — $275,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGESHER HUMAN SERVICES — $245,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $225,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRACQUET UP DETROIT — $225,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetWalsh College of Accountancy & Business Administration — $215,604 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES — $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE — $191,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJARC — $185,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $170,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMichigan Colleges Alliance — $166,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $164,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC — $140,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN — $140,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES — $130,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG — $123,500 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL — $90,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $82,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $82,280 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHAW FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetROSE HILL CENTER INC — $61,012 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM — $60,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetINSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT — $60,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCaridad Center Inc — $52,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBLUE LAKE FINE ARTS CAMP — $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK — $45,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetYAD EZRA — $44,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS — $42,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FURNITURE RESOURCE CENTER — $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK — $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCULTURESOURCE — $35,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Kresge FoundationDte Energy FoundationThe Fred & Barbara Er…Phillip and Elizabeth…Ford PhilanthropyThe Eugene Applebaum …Max M & Marjorie S Fi…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Marjorie and Maxwell …Edward C and Linda Dr…William Davidson Foun…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI53.4× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · Ford Philanthropy · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · William Davidson 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 Deroy Testamentary 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Caridad Center Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
20report 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

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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How do I get to Deroy Testamentary Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Deroy Testamentary 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 116 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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