How much does Deroy Testamentary Foundation give?

Deroy Testamentary Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $23,909,320 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 76 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Deroy Testamentary Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Health (41%), Arts & Culture (3%).

Who are Deroy Testamentary Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Inspirational Futures Foundation Inc ($27M), Deroy Education Partners ($26M), Cranbrook Educational Community ($918k).

Does Deroy Testamentary Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Deroy Testamentary Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Deroy Testamentary Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Kresge Foundation, DTE Energy Foundation.

Where is Deroy Testamentary Foundation based?

Deroy Testamentary Foundation is based in MI.

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Michigan · Private foundation

Deroy Testamentary Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 24
Grants FY2025: 18
Organizations funded FY2024: 28%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $11,600,000
Organizations funded a year: 18 to 76; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $273k
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Deroy Testamentary Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 92% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	22	$24M	23%
FY2024	18	$16M	28%
FY2023	39	$2.2M	28%
FY2022	48	$17M	23%
FY2021	61	$2.2M	16%
FY2020	76	$2.4M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Inspirational Futures Foundation Inc	$26,600,000	2	98%
Deroy Education Partners	$26,000,000	5	96%
Cranbrook Educational Community	$917,500	6	0%
Holocaust Memorial Center Inc	$610,000	5	2%
Shaw Festival Foundation	$541,500	2	2%
Detroit Zoological Society	$485,000	3	1%
Fresh Air Society	$450,000	3	2%
Beyond Basics	$415,640	3	7%
Vista Maria	$400,000	3	1%
Henry Ford Health Providence Foundation	$325,000	2	6%

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All grantees of Deroy Testamentary Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Inspirational Futures Foundation Inc	$26,600,000	2	98%
Deroy Education Partners	$26,000,000	5	96%
Cranbrook Educational Community	$917,500	6	0%
Holocaust Memorial Center Inc	$610,000	5	2%
Shaw Festival Foundation	$541,500	2	2%
Detroit Zoological Society	$485,000	3	1%
Fresh Air Society	$450,000	3	2%
Beyond Basics	$415,640	3	7%
Vista Maria	$400,000	3	1%
Henry Ford Health Providence Foundation	$325,000	2	6%
Michigan Humane Society	$250,000	2	0%
Gesher Human Services	$245,000	4	1%
Jarc	$230,000	6	0%
Racquet Up Detroit	$225,000	2	7%
Walsh College of Accountancy & Business Administration	$215,604	4	0%
College for Creative Studies	$200,000	4	0%
Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute	$191,000	3	0%
Carehouse of Oakland County Inc	$190,000	5	1%
Beaumont Health Foundation	$170,000	2	0%
Michigan Colleges Alliance	$166,500	4	1%
Interlochen Center for the Arts	$164,000	4	0%
Congregation B'Nai B'Rith Hillel	$140,000	6	2%
Covenant House Michigan	$140,000	3	1%
Oakland Family Services	$130,000	2	1%
National Council of Jewish Women Michig	$123,500	4	5%
Trinity Health - Michigan	$115,000	2	0%
Rose Hill Foundation	$100,000	1	n/a
Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network	$95,000	2	2%
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc	$90,000	2	0%
Orchards Children's Services Inc	$90,000	4	0%
Brookwood in Georgetown Vocational Inc	$90,000	3	1%
Forgotten Harvest Inc	$82,500	3	0%
Leader Dogs for the Blind	$82,280	3	0%
The Detroit Institute of Arts	$80,000	2	0%
Oakland University	$75,000	3	n/a
Rose Hill Center Inc	$61,012	1	1%
Detroit Cristo Rey High School Inc	$60,000	3	n/a
The Midnight Golf Program	$60,000	2	2%
Christ Child Society of Texas Capital Area Inc	$60,000	2	47%
Alternatives for Girls	$60,000	3	0%
Insideout Literary Arts Project	$60,000	4	1%
Caridad Center Inc	$52,000	2	1%
Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp	$50,000	3	0%
University of Michigan	$50,000	1	8%
Council of Michigan Foundations	$47,000	5	0%
Yad Ezra	$44,000	2	1%
University of the Cumberlands Inc	$40,000	3	0%
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan	$40,000	2	0%
The Furniture Resource Center	$40,000	4	1%
Temple Shir Shalom	$39,500	1	n/a
Michigan College Access Network	$35,000	1	0%
Culturesource	$35,000	3	1%
Jsl Foundation	$30,000	1	0%
Lions Visually Impaired Youth Camp	$30,000	3	3%
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Ctr Inc	$30,000	3	1%
Far Conservatory of Therapeutic and Performing Arts	$30,000	2	1%
Michigan Science Center	$30,000	2	0%
The Christ Child Society of Detroit	$25,091	1	1%
Hospice of Michigan Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Lawrence Technological University	$25,000	1	0%
Haven Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Detroit Opera	$20,000	1	0%
Friendship Circle	$20,000	1	n/a
Detroit Childrens Choir	$20,000	2	8%
Autism Alliance of Michigan	$20,000	1	1%
Motown Historical Musuem Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Detroit Public Media	$20,000	2	0%
All The World's A Stage	$20,000	2	8%
826 Michigan Inc	$20,000	2	2%
Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc	$16,000	2	0%
Special Olympics Michigan Inc	$16,000	2	0%
Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue	$15,000	1	n/a
Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit	$15,000	2	0%
Old Newsboys Goodfellow Fund of Detroit Michigan	$15,000	3	0%
Loggerhead Marinelife Center Inc	$10,855	1	0%
Detroit2nepal Foundation	$10,000	1	3%
The Jewish Ensemble Theatre	$10,000	2	1%
Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit	$10,000	2	0%
Next Level Scholars	$10,000	1	n/a
United States Fund for Unicef	$10,000	1	0%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society	$10,000	2	0%
Rackham Symphony Choir	$10,000	2	8%
Oakland Community College Foundation	$7,500	1	1%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc	$7,200	1	0%
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc	$7,200	1	0%
Jewish National Fund-Usa Inc	$7,200	1	n/a
American Friends of Magen David Adom	$7,200	1	0%
Direct Relief	$6,000	1	0%
International Relief Teams	$6,000	1	0%
Americares Foundation Inc	$6,000	1	0%
National Bone Marrow Transplant Link	$5,000	1	2%
The Detroit Jewish News Foundation Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Blood Cancer United Inc	$2,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.

Deroy Testamentary Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 85 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 85.

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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 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

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.

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About Deroy Testamentary Foundation

How much does Deroy Testamentary Foundation give?: Deroy Testamentary Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $23,909,320 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 76 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Deroy Testamentary Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Health (41%), Arts & Culture (3%).
Who are Deroy Testamentary Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Inspirational Futures Foundation Inc ($27M), Deroy Education Partners ($26M), Cranbrook Educational Community ($918k).
Does Deroy Testamentary Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Deroy Testamentary Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Deroy Testamentary Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Kresge Foundation, DTE Energy Foundation.
Where is Deroy Testamentary Foundation based?: Deroy Testamentary Foundation is based in MI.