How much did DESERANNO FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of DESERANNO FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

fencing

2022

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2023

hockeyfencing

2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $17k
$10k–50k4 grants · $50k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY$17,000
EASTSIDE YOUTH SPORTS FDN$12,525
MOTOR CITY DIRTY DAWGS$10,000
ROCKNE ATHLETIC FUND - FENCING$10,000
KIDS ON THE GO$4,000
ELEMENT COMMUNITY HEALTH FUND$2,500
GROSSE POINTE FDN FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION$2,500
UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL$2,500
REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$1,000
GROSSE POINTE SOUTH GRIDIRON CLUB$1,000
HOLY YOGA DETROIT$1,000
FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION$1,000
JT MESTDAGH FOUNDATION$500
DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION$500

02The need

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 (FY20–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$286k · 15 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$286k

$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+118%

Still filing today

40%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

GP
GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY
5× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +70%
UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL
6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +10%
GP
GROSSE POINTE FDN FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +4%

Funded once

BH
BULLDOGS HOCKEY
one grant, 2023 · $10k
RH
REACH HOMESCHOOL DRAMA
one grant, 2022 · $10k
RF
RENAISSANCE FENCING CLUB
one grant, 2021 · $10k

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.

Pointe Coupee Private School

The staff of pointe coupee private school is devoted to providing all student durricular experiences that are academically challenging and personally enriching

Education

Grosse Pointe Historical Society

To stimulate and encourage education and interest in the grosse pointe area and its history

Arts & Culture

The Family Center of Grosse Pointe

The family center provides support, connection, and education to families in our community. we provide tools and resources to help people succeed in raising healthy children and building strong families.

Human Services

Neighborhood Club

Collaborates to enhance the health and well-being of grosse pointe and surrounding communities by offering comprehensive recreation, social, and wellness programs.

Recreation & Sports

Grosse Pointe- Ea

To improve education and the educational program of the grosse pointe public schools.

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French School of Detroit Parents Association

Private school

Education

Dana Point Yacht Club

To provide a situs for the members to recreate and enjoy interaction between the members.

Recreation & Sports

Union Pointe Academy Corp

Private non-profit school. grades 1-12 benefitting approximately 50+ students in 2024.

Education

Pine Point School Inc

To provide educational and other student programs to children.

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High Point Academy

Independent school for children, grades kindergarten through eighth grade.

Education

Great Bay Elearning Charter School

Public charter school educational program, authorized by the new hampshire board of education and supervised by the new hampshire department of education. the school is open to any student residing in new hampshire in grades 8 through 12…

Education

Grosse Pointe Library Foundation

To promote educational and literacy purposes of the grosse pointe public library by soliciting and administering funds.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grosse Pointe Yacht Club Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Michigan Fraternal Order of Police. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

15/16

Grantees still filing

15/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$221,475Education$116,400Human Services$21,750Arts & Culture$4,000Health$2,500Youth Development$2,500Philanthropy$1,500Recreation & Sports$500

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.

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 for SoutheastMI13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation DESERANNO 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

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GROSSE POINTE FDN FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~21 months of operating runway; revenue held over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 205236890 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GROSSE POINTE FDN FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 21 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Deseranno Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Deseranno Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DESERANNO FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Deseranno Foundation?

More from the funding graph

DESERANNO FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Deseranno Foundation?

More from the funding graph