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Deroy Testamentary Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$12M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

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
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+4 grants · $22M
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$273k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSPIRATIONAL FUTURES FOUNDATION INC$11,600,000
DEROY EDUCATION PARTNERS$10,000,000
SHAW FESTIVAL FOUNDATION$466,500
CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY$283,320
FRESH AIR SOCIETY$175,000
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY$150,000
ZEKELMAN HOLOCAUST CENTER$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL AND ACADEMY$120,000
ROSE HILL FOUNDATION$100,000
HADASSAH$100,000
TRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN$100,000
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$100,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT$75,000
CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF TEXAS CAPITAL AREA INC$50,000
BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $919k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL: $50k → 6%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%ACCESS: $5k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 8%ACCESS - ARAB AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $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: $45k → 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
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

IL
MI
NY
CT
CA
CO
KY
DC
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$62M · 80 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 63 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
33

Total granted

$62M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+3%

Still filing today

78%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $918k · revenue +15%
  • HM
    HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $610k · revenue +53%
  • DZ
    DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $485k · revenue +106%

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%
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
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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2
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
3
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
4
Michigan Enviromental Council

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

Environment
5
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
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
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

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8
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
9
Alumni Association of the University of Michigan

The Association is an independent worldwide organization that nurtures lifelong relationships with and among current and future Michigan alumni. As a committed partner of the University the Association offers programs of relevance and…

Education
10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
The Greater Detroit Health Transition Company

Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit; the most unlike its peers is Inspirational Futures Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 122 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/91
Grantees still filing
62/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DEROY EDUCATION PARTNERS: $26,000,000 · EducationDEROY EDUCATION PARTNERS+12 more: $2,352,744 · Education+12 moreINSPIRATIONAL FUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $26,600,000 · HealthINSPIRATIONAL FUTURES FOUNDATION INC+8 more: $574,012 · HealthVISTA MARIA: $400,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $335,000 · OtherMICHIGAN HUMANE: $295,000 · OtherTRINITY HEALTH OAKLAND: $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL AND ACADEMY: $175,000 · OtherST JOSEPH MERCY OAKLAND: $158,400 · OtherFRESH AIR SOCIETY: $450,000 · OtherRACQUET UP DETROIT: $225,000 · OtherGESHER HUMAN SERVICES: $245,000 · OtherCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $190,000 · Other+55 more: $2,008,713 · OtherSHAW FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $541,500 · PhilanthropyHENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $325,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $300,000 · PhilanthropyROSE HILL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: $47,000 · PhilanthropyHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $610,000 · 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: $230,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $140,000 · Human ServicesOAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $130,000 · Human ServicesORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesBROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $82,280 · Human ServicesCaridad Center Inc: $52,000 · Human Services+5 more: $105,091 · Human ServicesDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $485,000 · AnimalsMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $250,000 · Animals
Education$28,352,744Health$27,174,012Other$4,682,113Philanthropy$1,313,500Arts & Culture$1,241,200Human Services$919,371Animals$735,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINSPIRATIONAL FUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $26,600,000 over 2y, 98% of budgetDEROY EDUCATION PARTNERS: $26,000,000 over 5y, 96% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $917,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $610,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetSHAW FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $541,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $485,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFRESH AIR SOCIETY: $450,000 over 3y, 1.8% 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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $300,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $250,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGESHER HUMAN SERVICES: $245,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJARC: $230,000 over 6y, 0.4% 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 budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC: $190,000 over 5y, 1.3% 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 budgetCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL: $140,000 over 6y, 2.0% 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 budgetTRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN: $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK: $95,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN VOCATIONAL INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.9% 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 budgetROSE HILL CENTER INC: $61,012 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $60,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetChrist Child Society of Texas Capital Area Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 47% 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 budgetUniversity of Michigan: $50,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: $47,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYAD EZRA: $44,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $40,000 over 2y, 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 …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

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 Deroy Testamentary Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deroy Testamentary Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 122 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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