· Private foundation
Edsel B Ford II Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $35,000 |
| GROOSE POINTE MEMORIAL CHURCH | $30,000 |
| DETROIT GOODFELLOWS | $20,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDERN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| CATCH | $15,000 |
| DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| HENRY FORD ESTATE - FAIR LANE | $10,000 |
| SAY DETROIT | $10,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $10,000 |
| DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $10,000 |
| THE SECOND MILE CENTER OF DETROIT | $10,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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.
44 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D6× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +49%
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $89k · revenue +12%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC INDIAN RIVER HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $25k
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCone grant, 2023 · $21k · revenue +4%- CACaring Athletes Team for Childrens and HF Hospone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
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.…
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.…
Detroit Experience Factory is a leading resource for both visitors and locals to discover, experience and learn about the people, places and projects around the city of Detroit.
To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart of detroit.
For all state residents, diverse civic stakeholders and philanthropy, the center for michigan (the center) and its nonprofit newsrooms - bridge michigan and bridgedetroit - make michigan better through high-quality, nonpartisan journalism…
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.
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
DPSFs mission is to create and enhance educational opportunities for over 50,000 Detroit Public Schools Community Districts students, families and educators. DPS Foundation was organized to ensure DPS, now DPSCD student and families to…
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the most unlike its peers is John a James 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 41 years old; the field is 13. 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 17% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 64 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 BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND ↗
- Who funds OLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUND OF DETROIT MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND MILE CENTER OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COTS ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN ↗
- Who funds The Community Library Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAY DETROIT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FUND OF MICHIGAN ↗
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 · Dte Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · William & Martha Ford Fund · S Gary Spicer Sr Foundation · Hudson-Webber Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Patrick and Christie Scoggin 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 Edsel B Ford II Fund 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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