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Elizabeth Allan & Warren Shelden Fund at a glance

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Elizabeth Allan & Warren Shelden Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$4.1MEducation$3.0MYouth Development$2.9MPhilanthropy$2.8MEnvironment$2.4MArts & Culture$1.9MHuman Services$1.8MFood & Nutrition$1.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $833k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASCENSION ST JOHN FOUNDATION$1,100,000
RACQUET UP DETROIT$300,000
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM$275,000
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MI$230,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY (THE)$200,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SE MI$125,000
UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL$125,000
FORGOTTEN HARVEST$100,000
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$75,000
MATH CORPS$75,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY$75,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$70,000
CHILDREN'S CENTER$65,000
COALITION ON TEMPORARY SHELTER$60,000
ALTERNATIVE FOR GIRLS$55,000
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 (FY17–24, $307k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHARITYWATER: $2k → 17%MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION: $25k → 10%MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION: $25k → 10%DETROIT PHOENIX CENTER: $25k → 21%MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION: $20k → 10%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $25k → 21%DETROIT PHOENIX CENTER: $25k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $25k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $10k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $10k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $10k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $10k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $10k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $10k → 21%ADULT WELL-BEING SERVICES: $5k → 21%ADULT WELL-BEING SERVICES: $5k → 21%ADULT WELL-BEING SERVICES: $5k → 21%ADULT WELL-BEING SERVICES: $5k → 21%ADULT WELL-BEING SERVICES: $5k → 21%BALDWIN CENTER (THE): $5k → 8%BALDWIN CENTER (THE): $5k → 8%BALDWIN CENTER (THE): $5k → 8%BALDWIN CENTER (THE): $5k → 8%BALDWIN CENTER (THE): $5k → 8%BALDWIN CENTER: $5k → 8%WE THE PEOPLE OF DETROIT: $11k → 21%WE THE PEOPLE OF DETROIT: $8k → 21%WE THE PEOPLE DETROIT: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
VA
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 82 repeat orgs$542k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
17

Total granted

$22M
$517k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+17%

Still filing today

66%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
HealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +24%
  • RU
    RACQUET UP DETROIT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +19% · 26% of their budget
  • UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOHN HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2017 · $125k
  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +414%
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
The Greater Detroit Health Transition Company

Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…

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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.…

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3
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.

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4
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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5
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
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.

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7
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
8
Detroit Food Policy Council

The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…

Food & Nutrition
9
Michigan Water Environment Association

Be and create stewards for the water environment of michigan. provide high quality education for michigan's water professionals. educate and inform policy makers and the general public. promote scientifically sound environmental practices…

Environment
10
Trinity Health - Michigan

We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.

Health
11
Michigan Science Center

The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.

Education
12
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

67 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. 67 of the 101 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/67
Grantees still filing
46/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MI: $1,420,000 · OtherUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SE MI: $906,573 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SE MIHURON PINES: $520,000 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $460,000 · OtherTHE HENRY FORD: $445,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY (THE): $425,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S CENTER: $375,000 · OtherAccounting Aid Society: $370,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $450,000 · Other+58 more: $5,330,700 · Other+58 moreHENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION: $1,770,000 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH S…HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $1,225,000 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH S…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $330,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL…DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN: $175,000 · Health+11 more: $518,000 · Health+11 moreRACQUET UP DETROIT: $1,700,000 · Recreation & SportsRACQUET UP DET…DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC: $1,110,000 · Recreation & SportsDETROIT RIVERF…NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB: $170,000 · Recreation & SportsNEIGHBORHOOD C…UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL: $1,350,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …Math Corps: $365,000 · EducationMath CorpsCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $200,000 · EducationCOLLEGE FOR…MERCY EDUCATION PROJECT: $177,500 · EducationMERCY EDUCA…GROSSE POINTE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: $80,000 · Education+2 more: $57,500 · EducationTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $766,988 · Arts & CultureHistoric Elmwood Foundation: $230,000 · Arts & CultureDetroit Historical Society: $115,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY FORD ESTATE: $75,000 · Arts & CultureFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $815,000 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $265,000 · Food & NutritionALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $327,500 · Housing & ShelterCOTS: $180,000 · Housing & ShelterUNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION: $100,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$10,702,273Health$4,018,000Recreation & Sports$2,980,000Education$2,230,000Arts & Culture$1,186,988Food & Nutrition$1,080,000Housing & Shelter$607,500

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 budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION: $1,770,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetRACQUET UP DETROIT: $1,700,000 over 8y, 26% of budgetUNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL: $1,350,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $1,225,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC: $1,110,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $815,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $766,988 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $450,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetAccounting Aid Society: $370,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetMath Corps: $365,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $330,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $327,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $325,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $265,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT INC: $250,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetGROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION: $240,000 over 8y, 22% of budgetHistoric Elmwood Foundation: $230,000 over 8y, 40% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $200,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOTS: $180,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMERCY EDUCATION PROJECT: $177,500 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetDETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN: $175,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $170,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CLUB: $170,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN: $140,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $135,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED MICHIGAN COUNCIL: $135,000 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Historical Society: $115,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUPPER BLACK RIVER COUNCIL INC: $110,000 over 8y, 41% of budgetHOLY CROSS SERVICES INC: $110,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA of Metropolitan Detroit: $110,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMACOMB COUNTY WARMING CENTER: $100,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetMARINERS INN: $100,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMOROSS GREENWAY PROJECT: $96,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetGROSSE POINTE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: $80,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD ESTATE: $75,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION: $70,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetRUFFED GROUSE SOCIETY: $65,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAVALON HEALING CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDETROIT PHOENIX CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetTHREE PILLARS AN EDUCATIONAL SERVICE PROVIDER: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALMA COLLEGE: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $34,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ROUGE: $31,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BALDWIN CENTER INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% 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 HENRY FORD HEALTH ST JOHN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RACQUET UP DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Accounting Aid Society ↗
  • Who funds Math Corps ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
  • Who funds GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Historic Elmwood Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds COTS ↗
  • Who funds MERCY EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN ↗

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 FoundationUnited Way for Southe…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Ford PhilanthropyMcGregor FundThe Kresge FoundationThe Skillman Foundati…WK Kellogg FoundationEthel and James Flinn…The Fred & Barbara Er…Charles Stewart Mott …
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI54.7× affinity27 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 · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · McGregor Fund · The Kresge Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott 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 Elizabeth Allan & Warren Shelden Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth Allan & Warren Shelden Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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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Find your warmest path to Elizabeth Allan & Warren Shelden 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 101 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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