· Private foundation
Ferndale Community Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Affirmations LGBTQ Community Center | $3,500 |
| Ringwald Theater | $2,500 |
| FernCare Free Clinic | $2,500 |
| Ferndale Community Concert Band | $2,500 |
| Southeast Oakland Coalition | $2,500 |
| Ferndale Housing Commission | $2,500 |
| Michigan Stage | $2,500 |
| Friends of the Ferndale Library | $2,250 |
| Renaissance Vineyard Church | $2,112 |
| Sing Out Detroit | $2,054 |
| Matrix Human Services | $1,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,300 |
| Ferndale Schools Fine Arts Boosters | $1,250 |
| Disability Network of Eastern Michigan | $1,250 |
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 (FY21–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FFFERNCARE FREE CLINIC INC4× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +6%
- ALAffirmations LGBTQ Community Center3× · 2022–2024 · $11k
- FHFerndale Housing Commission4× · 2020–2024 · $10k
Funded once
- ALAffirmations LGBTQ Community Cntrone grant, 2021 · $7k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $3k
THE FERNDALE CAT SHELTER2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue -23%
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.
Providing resources and training
To inspire (a) movement through the art of dance.
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To provide instruction in the arts
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Delinquency prevention
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Provide affordable housing for low incom
Improve quality of life in neighborhood
Education of children
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 26 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 FERNCARE FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST OAKLAND COALITION ↗
- Who funds MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE RINGWALD THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE FERNDALE CAT SHELTER ↗
- Who funds LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY NETWORK EASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FERNDALE SCHOOLS FINE ARTS BOOSTERS ↗
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: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Network for Good · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ferndale Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ferndale Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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