· Private foundation
Edsel & Eleanor Ford House
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VILLAGE OF GROSSE POINTE SHORES | $15,500 |
| CITY OF ST CLAIR SHORES | $5,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $4,600 |
| CITY OF GROSSE POINTE WOODS | $2,500 |
| GROSSE POINTE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $2,500 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN | $2,266 |
| ASE HR MANAGEMENT GROUP INC | $2,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,990 |
| SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC | $1,500 |
| AZABACHE | $1,500 |
| GROSSE POINTE WAR MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MACOMB COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $1,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE ROTARY CLUB | $850 |
| THE FAMILY CENTER OF GROSSE POINTE & HARPER WOODS | $760 |
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 (FY21–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- GPGROSSE POINTE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +55%
- GPGROSSE POINTE CHAMBER FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2024 · $9k · revenue +423%
COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES3× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SSSAM SANDIFER FUNERAL COSTSone grant, 2022 · $8k
- COCITY OF GROSSE PTE WOODSone grant, 2023 · $3k
- MNMOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +20%
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.
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.
To promote the common economic interests of all the commercial enterprises in the Genesee County, Michigan community. The Organization strives to enhance the business climate in the area and advocates for public policy that supports…
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.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Preserving the history of our area brings an understanding to the past and present, and provides a guide for the future. we not only maintain exhibits, artifacts and a research library, we provide a forum for engaging the community and…
To preserve, record and maintain the historical information of the area between michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, known as michilimackinac.
Advocate for michigan's historic resources to contribute to the economic vitality, sense of place and connection to the past.
To promote historical study and preserve the lighthouse museum
To promote business and economic development for eight towns in southwest michigan.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
The neighborhood club collaborates to enhance the health and well-being of grosse pointe and surrounding communities by offering comprehensive recreation, social, and wellness programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Humanities Council and the most unlike its peers is Ferndale Community 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 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 57 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 GROSSE POINTE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES ↗
- Who funds Historical Society of Michigan ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MOTORCITIES NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MACOMB COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds ALBERT KAHN LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE WAR MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FERNDALE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFE REMODELED ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAS ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CENTER OF GROSSE POINTE & HARPER WOODS ↗
- Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds For the Girls Inc ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation · William & Martha Ford Fund · Dte Energy Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Lynn & Paul Alandt Foundation · Henry Ford Health System · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Thomas a Mackey Charitable Foundation · Thomas and Carol Cracchiolo 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 Edsel & Eleanor Ford House 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.
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