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Edsel B Ford II Fund at a glance

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Edsel B Ford II Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$259k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$353kArts & Culture$307kReligion$276kHuman Services$157kFood & Nutrition$114kHousing & Shelter$103kEducation$89kCommunity Improvement$68kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $205k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY$35,000
GROOSE POINTE MEMORIAL CHURCH$30,000
DETROIT GOODFELLOWS$20,000
CATCH$15,000
ST JUDE CHILDERN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$15,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION$10,000
HENRY FORD ESTATE - FAIR LANE$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN$10,000
FORGOTTEN HARVEST$10,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$10,000
SAY DETROIT$10,000
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$10,000
THE SECOND MILE CENTER OF DETROIT$10,000
DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$10,000
GROSSE POINTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION$7,500
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE SECOND MILE CENTER OF DETROIT: $10k → 21%Spur Community Foundation: $3k → 7%The Second Mile Center of Detroit: $10k → 21%THE SECOND MILE CENTER OF DETROIT: $10k → 21%THE SECOND MILE CENTER OF DETROIT: $2k → 21%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $10k → 21%EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $10k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 44 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
16

Total granted

$1.5M
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+104%

Still filing today

61%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    6× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +49%
  • FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $89k · revenue +12%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $21k · revenue +4%
  • CA
    Caring Athletes Team for Childrens and HF Hosp
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
2
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.…

—
3
Detroit Experience Factory

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.

Community Improvement
4
Detroit Athletic Club

To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart of detroit.

—
5
The Center for Michigan

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…

Public Benefit
6
Delta Dental Fund

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.

—
7
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

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

—
8
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
9
Detroit Public Schools Foundation

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…

Education
10
Michigan Legacy Art Park

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

Arts & Culture
11
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
12
Detroit Regional Chamber

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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan; 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.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 64 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GROSSE POINTE MEMORIAL CHURCH: $193,360 · OtherGROSSE POINTE MEMORIAL CHURCHSALVATION ARMY: $105,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYGROOSE POINTE MEMORIAL CHURCH: $83,100 · OtherGROOSE POINTE MEMORIAL CHURCHOLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUND: $80,000 · OtherOLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUNDTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND: $40,000 · OtherCATCH: $40,000 · OtherTHE SECOND MILE CENTER OF DETROIT: $32,000 · Other+33 more: $363,500 · Other+33 moreBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $110,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $80,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $57,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITA…ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthST LUKE'S WOOD RIV…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETRO…MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMOSAIC YO…SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $28,000 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLE…DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $21,184 · Arts & CultureDETROIT S…HENRY FORD ESTATE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY FOR…AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureDetroit Historical Society: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $89,000 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $25,000 · Food & NutritionGROSSE POINTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $27,500 · EducationThe Community Library Association Inc: $20,000 · EducationTHE DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $10,500 · EducationBEYOND BASICS: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $60,000 · AnimalsOLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUND OF DETROIT MICHIGAN: $40,000 · Community ImprovementBELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Other$936,960Health$272,500Arts & Culture$131,684Food & Nutrition$114,000Education$79,000Animals$60,000Community Improvement$55,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $89,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $57,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUND OF DETROIT MICHIGAN: $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SECOND MILE CENTER OF DETROIT: $32,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT: $30,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $28,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGROSSE POINTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOTS: $25,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $21,184 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Community Library Association Inc: $20,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSUN VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $15,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTHE DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FUND OF MICHIGAN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY FORD ESTATE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAY DETROIT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CLUB: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBEYOND BASICS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDetroit Historical Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN A JAMES FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetGROSSE POINTE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 OLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUND OF DETROIT MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE SECOND MILE CENTER OF DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT ↗
  • 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 THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Community Library Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds BELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds THE DETROIT PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FUND OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds HENRY FORD ESTATE ↗

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.

Community Foundation …DTE Energy FoundationThe Kresge FoundationUnited Jewish Foundat…Ford PhilanthropyWilliam & Martha Ford…S Gary Spicer Sr Foun…Hudson-Webber Foundat…The Fred & Barbara Er…WK Kellogg FoundationCharles Stewart Mott …Patrick and Christie …
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI32.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Edsel B Ford II Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edsel B Ford II Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Edsel B Ford II Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Edsel B Ford II Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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