· Public charity
Detroit Area Agency on Aging
To educate, advocate and promote healthy aging to enable people to make choices about home and community-based services and long-term care that will improve their quality of life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER | $595,547 |
| ASSOC OF CHINESE AMERICANS | $283,362 |
| WAYNE COUNTY NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES | $269,261 |
| THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER (SOC) | $267,136 |
| CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC | $237,500 |
| LUELLA HANNAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $230,183 |
| LASED | $220,347 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES ORGANIZATION | $152,147 |
| GENESIS HOPE | $130,203 |
| FRANKLIN WRIGHT SETTLEMENTS | $122,293 |
| DELRAY | $113,000 |
| DETROIT ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ORGANIZATION (DABO) | $110,000 |
| UNIVERSAL DEMENTIA CAREGIVERS | $94,999 |
| BRIDGING COMMUNITIES | $89,873 |
| DISABILITY NETWORK WAYNE CNTY | $84,572 |
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 (FY17–25, $5.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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.
32 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k 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
- SPST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +74%
- SFSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +55%
- WCWAYNE COUNTY NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +46%
Funded once
- HDHEALTHY DETROITone grant, 2017 · $116k
- PHPRECISE HEALTH CARE SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $38k
- SISENIORS IN MOTIONSone grant, 2023 · $27k
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 educate, advocate and promote healthy aging to enable people to make choices about home and community-based services and long-term care that will improve their quality of life.
Social service agency serving clients in mid-michigan.
To serve and advocate for older adults, adults with disabilities, and caregivers by supporting their independence, dignity, and quality of life.
Provide services for senior citizens both through the center and to those with limited resources or homebound.
The ageways nonprofit senior services enhances the lives of older adults and adults with disabilities in the communities we serve.
Senior citizens programs
Adults day care
To provide housing and end of life care and support to terminally ill individuals.
Creating healthy communities - together
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
To provide housing for the elderly
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Service Organization and the most unlike its peers is Luella Hannan Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 39 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 ST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICANS FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds LUELLA HANNAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Peoples Community Services of Metropolitan Detroit ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN-WRIGHT SETTLEMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds DELRAY UNITED ACTION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds L & L ADULT DAY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS HARBOR OF OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds Universal Dementia Caregivers ↗
- Who funds MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY NETWORK WAYNE COUNTY DETROIT ↗
- Who funds MIGEN ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORG ↗
- Who funds Association Of Chinese Americans Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER DETROIT AGENCY FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds CHANCE FOR LIFE ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH END VILLAGE NON-PROFIT ↗
- Who funds DEAF & HEARING IMPAIRED SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OUTREACH SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
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: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · Metro Health Foundation · Mary Thompson Foundation · McGregor Fund · Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc · Ford Philanthropy · The Kresge 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 Detroit Area Agency on Aging 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.