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Dte Energy Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16M
Granted FY2024still arriving
442
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$28MCommunity Improvement$23MRecreation & Sports$21MArts & Culture$14MEnvironment$13MEmployment$11MHuman Services$9.6MEducation$9.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 442 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k148 grants · $684k
  • $10k–50k224 grants · $4.0M
  • $50k–250k61 grants · $5.9M
  • $250k+9 grants · $5.2M
$10,050
Median grant
11
States reached
$129M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DTE BEACON PARK FOUNDATION$1,200,000
CMNTY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST$1,000,000
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN$875,000
THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND$500,000
DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC$500,000
Individual grant recipient$400,000
YESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAH$250,000
DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDA$250,000
AMERICAN FORESTS$250,000
DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORP$225,000
UNITED WAY OF THE LAKESHORE$200,000
DETROIT BELLE ISLE GRAND PRIX INC$200,000
DETROIT ECONOMIC GROWTH ASSOCIATION$200,000
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC$200,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR$178,050
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: $80k → 7%FAMILY COUNSELING & CHILDRENS SERVICES OF LENAWEE CO CATHERINE COBB HOUSE: $33k → 12%CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH: $30k → 19%THE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: $80k → 7%THE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $80k → 7%THE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $80k → 7%THE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $80k → 7%THE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: $80k → 7%THE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: $80k → 7%THE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $80k → 7%CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION DBA RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENC: $33k → 8%NEW BEGINNING'S MERCY HOUSE: $35k → 10%TURNING POINT INC: $45k → 10%KENS KREW INC: $30k → 17%KENS KREW INC: $30k → 17%KENS KREW INC: $30k → 17%OZONE HOUSE INC: $40k → 14%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $50k → 21%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $31k → 21%THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT INC SAFEHOUSE CENTER: $41k → 14%AREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION 1B: $32k → 8%ARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $80k → 8%ARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $50k → 8%ARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL ACC: $50k → 8%ARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $45k → 8%ARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $45k → 8%ARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $45k → 8%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $70k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $65k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $55k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $55k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $50k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $50k → 21%FIRST STEP - WESTERN WAYNE COUNTY PROJECT ON DOMESTIC ASSAULT: $39k → 21%DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $45k → 21%DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $40k → 21%ACCESS: $100k → 21%ACCESS: $100k → 21%ACCESS: $100k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SERVICES: $75k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SERVICES ACCESS: $75k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SERVICES ACCESS: $75k → 21%ACCESS: $75k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SERVICES: $75k → 21%DETROIT AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $45k → 21%DETROIT AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $45k → 21%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS & AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $50k → 21%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS & AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $50k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$123M · 655 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

655 repeat relationships — 297 still active in FY2024, 358 since wound down; 83 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

655
513

Total granted

$123M
$10.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+15%

Still filing today

73%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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

  • UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    7× · 2017–2023 · $8.8M · revenue +55%
  • DE
    DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +23%
  • DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +643%

Funded once

  • FI
    FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M
  • DE
    DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION DESC
    one grant, 2019 · $805k
  • HF
    HENRY FORD COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $600k · revenue +56% · 26% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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3
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

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

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4
Detroit Food Policy Council

The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…

Food & Nutrition
5
Michigan State Afl-Cio Workforce Development Institute

To apply the principles of workforce development to grow michigan's economy while improving the lives of michigan workers.

Employment
6
Jobs for Michigan Council

The organization's mission is to provide citizens of michigan with an understanding of how current policy initiatives will affect their well-being; promote the common good, economic growth and general welfare of the citizens of michigan;…

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7
The Right Place Inc

The right place is the economic development organization that drives current and long-term economic prosperity in west michigan.

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8
Michigan Legacy Art Park

Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.

Arts & Culture
9
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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10
Community Education Commission

CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.

Education
11
Michigan Chamber Foundation

1) to plan and conduct nonpartisan public education programs regarding free enterprise, productivity and basic economic issues affecting the state of michigan.2) to establish and operate a leadership institute designed to provide promising…

Arts & Culture
12
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Michigan Community Action and the most unlike its peers is Taylor Farmers Market. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr14%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%21%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr14%16%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%18/957
the rest of the field
13%
8,485/66,084

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.

04the grantee network

842 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. 842 of the 1,285 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.

30
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
275
Early backer (in before they grew)
800/842
Grantees still filing
557/842
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND — $4,000,000 · OtherTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUNDTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $2,285,000 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE — $2,000,000 · OtherDETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION — $5,170,000 · OtherDETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION+115 more — $41,210,021 · Other+115 moreDTE BEACON PARK FOUNDATION — $17,062,099 · Recreation & SportsDTE BEACON PARK FOUN…DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC — $3,520,000 · Recreation & SportsDETROIT RIVERFRONT C…FIRST IN MICHIGAN — $1,801,000 · Recreation & SportsFIRST IN MICHIGAN+4 more — $1,205,000 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $10,306,550 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUN…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY — $1,421,600 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUN…Michigan Association of United Ways Inc — $700,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION — $631,000 · PhilanthropyAnn Arbor Spark Foundation — $560,000 · Philanthropy+11 more — $2,773,475 · Philanthropy+11 moreDOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP INC — $2,983,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN DE…DETROIT ECONOMIC GROWTH ASSOCIATION — $2,180,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT ECO…DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION — $1,334,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT REG…CONNECT DETROIT — $980,000 · Community ImprovementCONNECT DET…LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $705,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITI…Nonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc — $560,000 · Community ImprovementMICHIGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $434,750 · Community Improvement+17 more — $3,778,000 · Community Improvement+17 moreTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $1,554,588 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $1,285,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY — $825,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $737,500 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA — $730,000 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION — $660,000 · Arts & CultureMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $580,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EDISON INSTITUTE INC — $571,429 · Arts & CultureARTPRIZE GRAND RAPIDS — $465,000 · Arts & CultureRIVER RAISIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK FOUNDATION INC — $396,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY — $390,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $990,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $8,762,726 · Public Safety & DisasterMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER — $1,102,500 · EducationCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $1,051,500 · EducationHENRY FORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $600,000 · EducationDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $537,000 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION AT MONROE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $352,500 · EducationINFORUM — $337,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · EducationMERCY EDUCATION PROJECT — $260,500 · EducationJAMES E WADWORTH COMMUNITY CENTER — $230,000 · EducationTHE AFTER 26 PROJECT INC — $214,500 · EducationWEST MICHIGAN CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY — $201,000 · Education+5 more — $705,000 · Education
Other$54,665,021Recreation & Sports$23,588,099Philanthropy$16,392,625Community Improvement$12,954,750Arts & Culture$9,184,517Public Safety & Disaster$8,762,726Education$5,891,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDTE BEACON PARK FOUNDATION — $17,062,099 over 7y, 54% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $10,306,550 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $8,762,726 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetDETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION — $5,170,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND — $4,000,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC — $3,520,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP INC — $2,983,000 over 8y, 28% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $2,285,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT ECONOMIC GROWTH ASSOCIATION — $2,180,000 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetFIRST IN MICHIGAN — $1,801,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetRELEAF MICHIGAN INC — $1,680,000 over 8y, 95% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $1,554,588 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY — $1,421,600 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetDETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION — $1,334,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $1,285,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER — $1,102,500 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $1,051,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $1,050,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECT DETROIT — $980,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetTHE GREENING OF DETROIT — $890,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetAUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN — $887,500 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Michigan Inc — $840,000 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY — $825,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $773,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $737,500 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA — $730,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S — $720,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Forests — $707,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $705,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMichigan Association of United Ways Inc — $700,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetDETROIT 300 CONSERVANCY — $685,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetMICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION — $660,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetTHE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $640,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $631,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $580,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetTHE EDISON INSTITUTE INC — $571,429 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc — $560,000 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetAnn Arbor Spark Foundation — $560,000 over 5y, 60% of budgetHURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL — $538,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $537,000 over 7y, 8.4% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS — $510,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND — $499,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTPRIZE GRAND RAPIDS — $465,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetDETROIT ECONOMIC CLUB — $460,000 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetNEW DETROIT INC — $445,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetMICHIGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $434,750 over 4y, 27% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC — $432,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budget
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 DTE BEACON PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT ECONOMIC GROWTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FIRST IN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds RELEAF MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECT DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds THE GREENING OF DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Michigan Inc ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S ↗
  • Who funds American Forests ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT 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.

United Way for Southe…Community Foundation …Consumers Energy Foun…Comerica Charitable F…Ford PhilanthropyThe Skillman Foundati…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Hudson-Webber Foundat…Michigan Health Endow…Harry a and Margaret …McGregor FundThe Fred & Barbara Er…
United Way for Southeastern MichiganMI157.5× affinity169 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · The Skillman Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Hudson-Webber Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · McGregor Fund · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family 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 Dte Energy 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
70report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Dte Energy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dte Energy Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 1285 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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