· Private foundation
Fca Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Fca Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Boone County Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Fca Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 52 organizations, $18M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $632k
- $50k–250k36 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+4 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CERN & SOCIETY FOUNDATION | $12,366,781 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,484,062 |
| DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| FIRST IN MICHIGAN | $325,000 |
| TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS | $200,000 |
| CITY YEAR INC | $200,000 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $180,000 |
| FRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ITALY | $180,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA DETROIT | $100,000 |
| SOLDIERS' ANGELS | $100,000 |
| VETERANS MATTER | $100,000 |
| THE FIRST RESPONSE TEAM OF AMERICA CORP | $100,000 |
| MATH CORPS | $100,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $100,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 25% of grant dollars ($18M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 75% that went abroad ($55M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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
Beyond the US: 75% of all-years giving ($55M)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 20% of Fca Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 13% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 15%.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
80 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2020, 31 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FIFIRST IN MICHIGAN4× · 2017–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +72%
CITY YEAR INC4× · 2017–2020 · $950k · revenue +15%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA3× · 2017–2019 · $700k · revenue +62%
Funded once
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGANgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +87%- TMTHE MISSION CONTINUESone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue -72%
- NCNATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +50%
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.…
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.…
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Local circles offers young detroiters an employment opportunity in youth- led research. by employing youth to do research, local circles intervenes on two simultaneous social issues facing young detroiters today: youth unemployment and…
CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.
Friends of the children - detroit has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
The mission of desc is to cultivate local workforce talent to align with the needs of the business community through partnerships with key workforce agencies, faith- and community- based organizations, education and training institutions,…
The organization works with k-12, higher education and other community partners to design and implement programs to improve rates of college persistence and completion.
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
To enable african americans and people in need to reach their full human potential
The league's mission is to promote racial equity, economic security, health, and well being for all people in michigan through policy change.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
How this is measured
108 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. 108 of the 135 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.
- Who funds FIRST IN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds M-1 RAIL ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TEACH FOR ITALY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST RESPONSE TEAM OF AMERICA CORP ↗
- Who funds Math Corps ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS' ANGELS ↗
- Who funds WINNING FUTURES ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds 1MATTERSORG ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS REHABILITATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit ↗
- Who funds ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF HOWARD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR & SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM DETROIT METRO ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo ↗
- Who funds DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Ignites Detroit ↗
- Who funds DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND ↗
- Who funds RUTH ELLIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER ↗
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: DTE Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Ford Philanthropy · The Kresge Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Carls Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fca Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fca Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- National Center for Victims of Crime Inc: 10% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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