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Edward T & Ellen K Dryer Charitable at a glance

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Edward T & Ellen K Dryer Charitable

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.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$261kHealth$237kArts & Culture$66kHuman Services$64kEducation$52kCommunity Improvement$5kRecreation & Sports$4kYouth Development$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MI$50,000
SEEDLINGS BRAILLE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN$29,558
POLISH MUSEUM OF AMERICA$10,000
GROSSE POINTE LIBRARY$3,000
THE HELM$2,500
FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION$1,000
CHARLEVOIX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
THE FAMILY CENTER$1,000
THE FRONT PORCH$1,000
CHALLENGE MOUNTAIN$500
02The need
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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 (FY25–25, $1k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $1k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$481k · 18 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against -33% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
11

Total granted

$481k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
-33%

Still filing today

61%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SB
    SEEDLINGS BRAILLE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
    5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +29%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    3× · 2021–2023 · $75k · revenue +96%
  • PM
    Polish Museum of America
    5× · 2021–2025 · $62k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • DI
    DETROIT INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • GP
    GROSSE POINTE ROTARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +52%
  • JL
    Junior League of Detroitgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +115%
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
Grosse Pointe Housing Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Grosse Pointe Library Foundation

To promote educational and literacy purposes of the grosse pointe public library by soliciting and administering funds.

Education
3
About Face Detroit
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4
Neighborhood Club

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.

Recreation & Sports
5
Detroit Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Country Club of Detroit Foundation

Provide support to the country club of detroit and opportunities to its members

Philanthropy
7
The Family Center of Grosse Pointe & Harper Woods

The family center provides support, connection, and education to families in our community. we provide tools and resources to help people succeed in raising healthy children and building strong families.

Human Services
8
Bridgepointe Inc

Bridgepointe is dedicated to educate, inspire and empower the children of detroit and its surrounding suburbs through direct personal experiences and living relationships.

Education
9
Montessori Childrens House of Lenawee Inc

Education of young people in the Montessori method

Human Services
10
Grosse Pointe Farms Foundation

To raise funds to support the city of grosse pointe farms' projects

Environment
11
Community Pride Mi
Public Benefit
12
Detroit Puppet Company

Dpc uses awe-inspiring puppetry as a vehicle for a better tomorrow. dpc collaborates with the local commmunity to create inclusive spaces that bring together detroit and hamtramck residents with artists from around the country. the works…

Arts & Culture
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 Full Circle 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

22 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. 22 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEEDLINGS BRAILLE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN: $84,558 · OtherSEEDLINGS BRAILLE BOOKS FOR CHILDRENUniversity of Michigan: $75,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA: $60,000 · OtherASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLIN…PENRICKTON CENTER FOR: $60,000 · OtherPENRICKTON CENTER FORCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MI: $51,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MITHE HELM: $13,000 · Other+13 more: $38,550 · Other+13 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $200,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAS…+3 more: $8,500 · PhilanthropyPolish Museum of America: $62,000 · Arts & CulturePolish Mus…GROSSE POINTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureWINNING FUTURES: $40,000 · EducationBEYOND BASICS: $2,500 · EducationGROSSE POINTE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Community ImprovementJunior League of Detroit: $1,300 · Community ImprovementTHE FRONT PORCH: $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentGROSSE POINTE ANIMAL ADOPTION SOCIETY: $2,000 · Animals
Other$382,608Philanthropy$209,000Arts & Culture$65,500Education$42,500Community Improvement$4,300Youth Development$3,500Animals$2,000

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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $200,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEEDLINGS BRAILLE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN: $84,558 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $75,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetPolish Museum of America: $62,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA: $60,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetWINNING FUTURES: $40,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCharlevoix County Community Foundation: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST INTEGRATED HEALTH: $6,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHALLENGE MOUNTAIN OF WALLOON HILLS INC: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRONT PORCH: $3,500 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetGROSSE POINTE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGROSSE POINTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBEYOND BASICS: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROSSE POINTE ANIMAL ADOPTION SOCIETY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJunior League of Detroit: $1,300 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF GROSSE POINTE SUNRISE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetIndianapolis Dance Company DBA Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 …Richard and Jane Mano…Detroit Industrial Sc…DTE Energy FoundationNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation · Detroit Industrial School · DTE Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Edward T & Ellen K Dryer Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward T & Ellen K Dryer Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

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’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
    6report 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.
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    How do I get to Edward T & Ellen K Dryer Charitable?

    Find your warmest path to Edward T & Ellen K Dryer Charitable 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 32 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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