· Private foundation
Fenton Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $35,000 |
| CHRIST CHILD HOUSE | $20,000 |
| MI THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE | $4,600 |
| FISHER THEATER | $1,930 |
| REVS INSITUTE | $1,572 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,355 |
| AMERICAN BRAIN TUMOR ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATI | $1,000 |
| HINGE EARLY EDUCATION ADVISORS | $1,000 |
| CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY | $450 |
| WALLOON LAKE GUARDIAN FUND | $220 |
| Individual grant recipient | $131 |
| GREENWOOD CEMETERY | $100 |
| NORTHMEN DEN YOUTH SERVICES | $100 |
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 (FY19–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- MAMICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE6× · 2019–2024 · $130k · revenue -15%
- TCTHE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT3× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +187%
- MTMI THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE6× · 2019–2024 · $26k
Funded once
- MSMICHIGAN STAGEone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
Detroit Experience Factory is a leading resource for both visitors and locals to discover, experience and learn about the people, places and projects around the city of Detroit.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
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.
To promote equality and inclusion in society.
Endeavor Detroit is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Michigan and the wider Great Lakes region, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in the…
To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart of detroit.
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…
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.
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 inspire a community of active engagement, personal responsibility and hope by connecting people to opportunities and resources to transform the quality of life for all Detroiters.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Michigan Women's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mcnish Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 39 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 MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds REVS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOAN ROSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
- Who funds MCNISH FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE EINSTEIN METHOD FKA EINSTEIN EDUCATION ECOSYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds One 17 International Inc ↗
- Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
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: Rochelle Rosenthal Forester and Randolph L Forester Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Fenton Family Foundation 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.
- Revs Institute Inc — 0% of income from government
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.