· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of EDWARD T & ELLEN K DRYER CHARITABLE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| THE FAMILY CENTER | $1,000 |
| THE FRONT PORCH | $1,000 |
| FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHARLEVOIX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHALLENGE MOUNTAIN | $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 (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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against -33% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- SBSEEDLINGS BRAILLE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +29%
- UOUniversity of Michigan3× · 2021–2023 · $75k · revenue +96%
- PMPolish Museum of America5× · 2021–2025 · $62k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- DIDETROIT INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGYone grant, 2021 · $10k
- GPGROSSE POINTE ROTARY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +52%
- JLJunior League of Detroitgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +115%
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.
To promote educational and literacy purposes of the grosse pointe public library by soliciting and administering funds.
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.
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.
Provide support to the country club of detroit and opportunities to its members
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.
Bridgepointe is dedicated to educate, inspire and empower the children of detroit and its surrounding suburbs through direct personal experiences and living relationships.
Education of young people in the Montessori method
To raise funds to support the city of grosse pointe farms' projects
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and 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.
22 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. 22 of the 32 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SEEDLINGS BRAILLE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Polish Museum of America ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds WINNING FUTURES ↗
- Who funds Charlevoix County Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST INTEGRATED HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE FRONT PORCH ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE MOUNTAIN OF WALLOON HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BASICS ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE ANIMAL ADOPTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Junior League of Detroit ↗
- Who funds Training Wheels Childcare Center ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Dance Company DBA Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF GROSSE POINTE SUNRISE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOWLER CENTER 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 · 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
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 Edward T & Ellen K Dryer Charitable 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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