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Dmb2 Foundation at a glance

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Dmb2 Foundation

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.

$393k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$400kYouth Development$335kHuman Services$160kEducation$133kReligion$40kHousing & Shelter$10kRecreation & Sports$10kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $360k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$200,000
VETERANS IN CRISIS$100,000
FLEECE & THANK YOU$60,000
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF MI$10,000
ST ANASTASIA$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ANGELA HOSPICE: $40k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 73% of Dmb2 Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 1%.

Dmb2 Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$858k · 8 repeat orgs$278k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
14

Total granted

$858k
$265k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+14%

Still filing today

63%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FLEECE & THANK YOU
    6× · 2020–2025 · $330k · revenue +131%
  • VI
    VETERANS IN CRISIS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $140k · revenue +228% · 29% of their budget
  • NK
    National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc
    2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +83%
  • AH
    ANGELA HOSPICE HOME CARE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +14%
  • CE
    CSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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2
Mymichigan Home Care

Creating healthy communities - together

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3
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
4
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
5
Veterans Inc

Veterans inc.'s mission is to end homelessness among veterans by helping veterans regain control of their lives. we believe that all veterans have earned respect and gratitude from our nation. this belief is translated into the philosophy…

Community Improvement
6
Homes for Veterans a Nj Non Profit Corporation

Our mission is to provide a holistic approach to support veterans with disabilities by removing barriers in every aspect of their lives. this includes funding customized, barrier-free home modificationssuch as wheelchair-accessible…

Housing & Shelter
7
The Mike Gallagher Show Charitable Foundation

Gallagher's heroes provides support to first responders and their families by providing financial, emotional, and spiritual assistance during times of need. our mission is to uplift these brave men and women by offering resources that…

Philanthropy
8
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
9
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
10
Hospice of St Francis Inc

To care and support the terminally ill and their loved ones by uplifting lives, uplifting each other, and uplifting our community.

Human Services
11
Fallen Blue Quilts

This nonprofit corporation was formed to comfort the families of law enforcement officers who have been killed in the line of duty. donna marsinick, a mother of a police officer, hand quilts a "thin blue line" quilt for the family of every…

Human Services
12
Visiting Nurse Health System Inc

Founded in 1948, visiting nurse health system is georgia's solution to healthcare and aging at home. for over 75 years, visiting nurse has served as georgia's first and largest nonprofit provider of health and hospice care in the home, and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Divine Destiny International. 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

11 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. 11 of the 24 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTHVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $38,000 · OtherNORTHVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLCSA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherCAPUCHIN SERVICES CENTER: $20,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20,000 · OtherDETROIT CATHOLIC CENTRAL: $20,000 · Other+8 more: $68,750 · Other+8 moreFLEECE & THANK YOU: $330,000 · Youth DevelopmentFLEECE & THANK YOUVETERANS IN CRISIS: $140,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS IN C…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationBEAT THE STREETS DETROIT INC: $4,500 · EducationANGELA HOSPICE HOME CARE INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $20,000 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · HealthDIVINE DESTINY INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · International
Other$511,750Youth Development$330,000Public Benefit$140,000Education$74,500Human Services$40,000Health$30,000International$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFLEECE & THANK YOU: $330,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetVETERANS IN CRISIS: $140,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELA HOSPICE HOME CARE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIVINE DESTINY INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetUNITED WAY OF INDIANA COUNTY: $5,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHAVEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEAT THE STREETS DETROIT INC: $4,500 over 2y, 1.1% 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.

  • Who funds FLEECE & THANK YOU ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS IN CRISIS ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANGELA HOSPICE HOME CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds DIVINE DESTINY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF INDIANA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds BEAT THE STREETS DETROIT INC ↗

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.

The Barton Malow Foun…DTE Energy FoundationThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Barton Malow FoundationMI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Barton Malow Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Dmb2 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dmb2 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 24 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-PF 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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