· Private foundation
Em Forwrd Family Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 242 COMMUNITY CHURCH | $11,000 |
| WEMU 891 | $7,500 |
| GIRLS GROUP | $2,500 |
| MICHIGAN LUPUS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| KERRYTOWN CONCERT HOUSE | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $500 |
| THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $500 |
| SAFE HOUSE | $300 |
| DAVID'S HOUSE | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| STATE OF MICHIGAN | $75 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JIJOYCE IVY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +29%
- PNPeace Neighborhood Center7× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +230%
- UOUniversity of Michigan4× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +202%
Funded once
- UOU OF MI - DEPT OF FAMILY MEDICINEone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CSCSAM STEINER HEALTHone grant, 2019 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +69%
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.
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.
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.…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
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.…
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
The Association is an independent worldwide organization that nurtures lifelong relationships with and among current and future Michigan alumni. As a committed partner of the University the Association offers programs of relevance and…
To advance the well-being of michigan residents through the promotion of sound public policies and responsible legislation. the purpose of these activities is to promote policies that strengthen the michigan health care system.
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
To advance the field of health for the public good.
Cooperatively empowering credit unions to increase financial well-being by supporting community enrichment, financial education, and credit union development initiatives
We honor life through donation.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
To educate the public on issues concerning fiscal responsibility, economic freedom, and the elimination of coercive and compulsory policies; promote these issues; and support legislative changes to embrace these issues.
How this is measured
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 60 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds KERRYTOWN CONCERT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS GROUP ↗
- Who funds Ypsilanti Community Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds KENYAN URITHI EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MI LUPUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Faith Hospice ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds THE TREELINE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
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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.
Open a dossier: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (Of R & P Heydon) · The Buhr Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Em Forwrd Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Em Forwrd Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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