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$906k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$173k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$4.3MHealth$4.2MHuman Services$3.3MPhilanthropy$2.6MArts & Culture$262kRecreation & Sports$66kPublic Benefit$50kSocial Science$46kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $830k
$106,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$751k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys and Girls Clubs$172,786
CS Mott Children's Hospital$166,566
Children's Center of Wayne County$143,550
DADA Educational Foundation$125,000
Detroit PAL$115,105
Children's Foundation$106,500
Angel's Place$15,000
Michigan Thanksgiving Parade Foundation$12,400
Celani Family Foundation$11,000
Citizen Education Fund Inc$10,000
Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix Inc$8,000
Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation$6,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PICTURES OF HOPE: $25k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE: $28k → 21%JUDSON CENTER: $569k → 8%JUDSON CENTER: $493k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 21%JUDSON CENTER: $431k → 8%CHILDRENS CENTER: $487k → 21%CHILDRENS CENTER: $486k → 21%Angel's Place: $15k → 8%CHILDRENS CENTER: $366k → 21%ANGEL'S PLACE: $15k → 8%DETROIT PAL: $357k → 21%ANGEL'S PLACE: $10k → 8%DETROIT PAL: $293k → 21%ANGEL'S PLACE: $10k → 8%DETROIT PAL: $285k → 21%ANGEL'S PLACE: $10k → 8%DETROIT PAL: $213k → 21%CHILDRENS CENTER: $178k → 21%Children's Center of Wayne County: $144k → 21%Detroit PAL: $115k → 21%DETROIT PAL: $105k → 21%CHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY: $100k → 21%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 23 repeat orgs$674k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
13

Total granted

$12M
$499k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+1%

Still filing today

91%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    6× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +195%
  • JC
    JUDSON CENTER INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.5M · revenue +57%
  • DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED
    6× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • MC
    MOTT CHILDRESN HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $260k
  • CM
    CS MOTT CHILDRESN HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • TN
    THE NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -5%
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
About Face Detroit
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2
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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3
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
4
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
5
Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inc

Detroit regional chamber foundation, inc. (the "foundation") is dedicated to growing programs or initiatives that are important to ensuring the detroit region's economy is one of the fastest growing in the u.s.

Community Improvement
6
Dte Beacon Park Foundation
Recreation & Sports
7
Detroit Golf Club Caddie Scholarship Foundation
Education
8
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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9
Dte Energy Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Delta Dental Fund

Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.

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11
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit

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12
Michigan Enviromental Council

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

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Gibson Foundation Gibson. 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

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 39 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
20/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $1,760,269 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY IN…JUDSON CENTER INC: $1,492,933 · Human ServicesJUDSON CENTER INCDETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $1,368,116 · Human ServicesDETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCO…+3 more: $122,500 · Human ServicesLEGACY CHM: $2,751,060 · HealthLEGACY CHMMARCH OF DIMES INC: $590,223 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INCCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $219,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHI…MOTT CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER: $166,566 · Health+4 more: $86,160 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $2,459,416 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATI…+2 more: $50,200 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $2,207,518 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB…Detroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation Inc: $191,800 · Youth DevelopmentDetroit Auto Deal…Hope Ignites Detroit: $684,602 · OtherHope Ignite…MISC GRANTS UNDER 5001CHARITY: $296,203 · OtherMISC GRANTS…MOTT CHILDRESN HOSPITAL: $260,026 · OtherMOTT CHILDR…CS MOTT CHILDRESN HOSPITAL: $100,000 · OtherCS MOTT CHI…NADA Foundation: $70,400 · Other+10 more: $174,650 · Other+10 moreMICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION: $29,305 · Arts & CultureMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureLEMAY-AMERICAS CAR MUSEUM: $16,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PARADE COMPANY: $49,400 · Recreation & SportsDETROIT METRO SPORTS COMMISSIONINC: $8,500 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$4,743,818Health$3,813,509Philanthropy$2,509,616Youth Development$2,399,318Other$1,585,881Arts & Culture$70,305Recreation & Sports$57,900

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 budgetLEGACY CHM: $2,751,060 over 4y, 67% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $2,459,416 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $2,207,518 over 6y, 18% of budgetCHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $1,760,269 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetJUDSON CENTER INC: $1,492,933 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetDETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $1,368,116 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $590,223 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $219,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDetroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation Inc: $191,800 over 3y, 34% of budgetNADA Foundation: $70,400 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetANGELS' PLACE: $60,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PARADE COMPANY: $49,400 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCELANI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $42,200 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCITIZEN EDUCATION FUND INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN CAR OF THE YEAR CORPORATION: $40,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM LAFONTAINE UCANCERVIVE: $36,120 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetTHE NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION: $29,305 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $28,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPICTURES OF HOPE: $25,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION: $16,040 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLEMAY-AMERICAS CAR MUSEUM: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPAN EQUUS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDETROIT PROGRESS FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDETROIT METRO SPORTS COMMISSIONINC: $8,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DET: $5,150 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

DTE Energy FoundationCommunity Foundation …Ford PhilanthropyOthers First IncThe Kresge FoundationChildren's Hospital o…The Barton Malow Foun…United Way for Southe…Fca FoundationMichigan Health Endow…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Charities Aid Foundat…
DTE Energy FoundationMI31.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: DTE Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ford Philanthropy · Others First Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Fca Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Detroit Auto Dealers Association Charity Preview funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Detroit Auto Dealers Association Charity Preview. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Detroit Auto Dealers Association Charity Preview?

    Find your warmest path to Detroit Auto Dealers Association Charity Preview 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 39 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 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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