· Private foundation
Deseranno Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| ELEMENT COMMUNITY HEALTH FUND | $2,500 |
| GROSSE POINTE FDN FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION | $2,500 |
| FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| HOLY YOGA DETROIT | $1,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE SOUTH GRIDIRON CLUB | $1,000 |
| JT MESTDAGH FOUNDATION | $500 |
| DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TGTHE GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY5× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +30%
- ESEAST SIDE YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +69%
- USUnited States Fencing Association3× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- RHREACH HOMESCHOOL DRAMAone grant, 2022 · $10k
- RFRENAISSANCE FENCING CLUBone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To stimulate and encourage education and interest in the grosse pointe area and its history, customs, architecture, and government, and the part that its inhabitants have had in the service of their government, and their contributions to…
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.
To raise funds to support the city of grosse pointe farms' projects
Grosse pointe gators is a swimming organization that aspires to teach, train and motivate swimmers at all skill levels.
Our programs develop local sailors at all skill levels and challenge them to achieve confidence and independence on the water.
Educational, civic, charitable & literacy
To promote educational and literacy purposes of the grosse pointe public library by soliciting and administering funds.
The neighborhood club collaborates to enhance the health and well-being of grosse pointe and surrounding communities by offering comprehensive recreation, social, and wellness programs.
Glacier swim club (gsc) is dedicated to the development of excellence and achievement in all levels of competitive swimming. gsc program will promote a supervised competitive swim team, good sportsmanship and team spirit in all swimmers,…
The grayson school provides gifted children a challenging, research-based education worthy of their intellect and their intrinsic desire to learn and think deeply. we serve as a valued resource for the gifted education community in…
College scholarships
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grosse Pointe Foundation for Public Education and the most unlike its peers is Tserings Fund. 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 22 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
18 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. 18 of the 33 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United States Fencing Association ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON THE GO ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JT MESTDAGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELEMENT COMMUNITY HEALTH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Annex Teen Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE SOUTH GRIDIRON CLUB ↗
- Who funds FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TAU BETA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TSERINGS FUND ↗
- Who funds DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE FENCING INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Patrick and Christie Scoggin Family Foundation · John a & Marlene L Boll Foundation · Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation 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 organization 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.
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.