· Public charity
Forgotten Harvest Inc
The mission of forgotten harvest is relieving hunger in metro detroit and preventing nutritious food waste.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 62 grants below total $1,449,566 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,480,196 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,630 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k4 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELLEVILLE CHURCH OF GOD | $88,703 |
| PROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY | $60,000 |
| CHALDEAN AMERICAN LADIES OF CHARITY | $56,960 |
| JESUS TABERNACLE DELIVERANCE OF MINISTRIES | $54,775 |
| TWELFTH STREET FOOD PANTRY | $44,683 |
| SOWING EMPOWERMENT & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC | $40,000 |
| DETROIT RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF HOLLY | $40,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE | $34,158 |
| REDFORD INTERFAITH RELIEF | $33,937 |
| LIGHTHOUSE SOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER | $31,086 |
| QTMC INC CENTERSTAGE | $30,000 |
| GOSPEL TABERNACLE FOOD PANTRY | $30,000 |
| ST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER | $30,000 |
| OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC | $30,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $467k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Forgotten Harvest Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 35 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $753k 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
- SPST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER INC2× · 2024–2025 · $70k · revenue +74%
- FLFISH & LOAVES2× · 2024–2025 · $69k · revenue +33%
COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN2× · 2024–2025 · $58k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- HMHARTFORD MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $100k
- YEYAD EZRAone grant, 2024 · $76k · revenue 0%
- CCCASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INCone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
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.
Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.
Community & home supports, inc. was founded to help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we strive to fulfill our purpose by developing, leading, and participating in collaborative and innovative efforts that support…
Midland's Open Door (MOD) operates two crisis shelters, one for women and children and one for men. MOD's programs are designed to meet the immediate needs of homeless individuals by providing a safe and loving environment where each…
Community outreach and church services
At Outreach East, our mission is simple yet powerful: to ensure no neighbor in our community has to go without life's essentials. We are a non-denominational, community-based nonprofit serving families in Davison, Burton, Goodrich,…
Our mission is to increase awareness of the problems of people who are homeless and the development and carrying out of strategies to create permanent solutions to homelessness in our community.
to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit
Catholic Community Response Team provides direct support and referral services to those in crisis needing emergency assistance to meet their basic needs. We do it in a manner inspired by the Gospel of Jesus. Our focus is to keep families…
The mission of the henry hosea house is to provide food and nourishment for the bodies and souls of the men, women, and children of the northern kentucky/cincinnati area. we are a cooperative ecumenical nonprofit agency made up of…
Create positive change in the lives of those we serve.
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Exodus Food Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 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. 35 of the 73 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 GODS STOREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHALDEAN AMERICAN LADIES OF CHARITY ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FISH & LOAVES ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
- Who funds SOWING EMPOWERMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND HOPE ↗
- Who funds NEXUS DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Haven of Hope Community Outreach Inc ↗
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: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc · The Skillman Foundation · The Jewish Fund · McGregor Fund · The Barton Malow Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr 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 Forgotten Harvest Inc 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.
- Sowing Empowerment and Economic Development Inc — 9% 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.