· Private foundation
Detter Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $157k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $19,200 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $19,000 |
| PATHWAYS EARLY EDUCTION CENTER | $13,125 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SALINE RIVER | $10,600 |
| FISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| OZONE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HURON VALLEY | $10,000 |
| MYOSITIS SUPPORT AND UNDERSTANDING | $9,758 |
| U-M MARSAL SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $9,019 |
| BACKPACK MINISTRY OF MCCORMICK | $9,000 |
| HEAR FOR LIFE FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| CAMP CASEY | $8,250 |
| SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN | $7,500 |
| MICHIGAN FOSTER CARE CLOSET | $7,500 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $7,000 |
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, $330k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +47% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 5 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- SASALINE AREA SOCIAL SERVICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $142k · revenue +113%
- WOWINGS OF MERCY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +92%
THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- WIWONDERWORK INCone grant, 2017 · $100k
- PEPathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +36%
NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -41%
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 improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Hands across the water supports and empowers children and families through inclusive, strengths-based services. we envision a community where every child is valued and has a safe home and loving family where they can thrive. in keeping…
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
We honor life through donation.
The mission of arc of wabash county, inc. is to challenge, empower, and support individuals with disabilities to reach their highest level of independence. arc of wabash is dedicated to: 1) preserve, protect, and promote the dignity of…
The new foster care will show the love of jesus christ by making a measurable, meaningful, and transformative change in the michigan foster care system and in the lives of those who have experienced foster care by: 1) providing direct…
Michigan casa, inc. is dedicated to changing the lives of abused and neglected children by advocating for their best interests through establishing, supporting, and expanding quality casa programs throughout the state of michigan to ensure…
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
Mission: supporting people to participate as essential members of their community.
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.…
To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.
Interact of michigan, inc. is dedicated to collaborative delivery of evidence-supported mental health and substance abuse treatments that foster hope and wellness. interact of michigan, inc. has developed services designed to meet the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Starkey Hearing 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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 87 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 SALINE AREA SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds OZONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN FOSTER CARE CLOSET ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN OVARIAN CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP CASEY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Starkey Hearing Foundation ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF ALLENDALE ↗
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: Dte Energy Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Washtenaw County · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Edward F Redies Foundation Inc · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Adient Foundation Inc · Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor Foundation Inc · United Way for Southeastern Michigan
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 Detter Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.