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Forgotten Harvest Inc

The mission of forgotten harvest is relieving hunger in metro detroit and preventing nutritious food waste.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$89k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$1.6MHuman Services$469kReligion$387kHousing & Shelter$215kArts & Culture$30kEmployment$27kCrime & Legal$20kYouth Development$8k
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 62 grants below total $1,449,566, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,480,196 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,630 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $260k
$22,007
Median grant
2
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF HOLLY$40,000
DETROIT RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES$40,000
HOSPITALITY HOUSE$34,158
REDFORD INTERFAITH RELIEF$33,937
LIGHTHOUSE SOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER$31,086
GRACE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE$30,000
QTMC INC CENTERSTAGE$30,000
GOSPEL TABERNACLE FOOD PANTRY$30,000
OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY SHARING OUTREACH CENTER: $17k → 8%SOWING EMPOWERMENT & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $40k → 11%HAVEN OF HOPE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $22k → 10%HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $34k → 8%HAVEN OF HOPE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $5k → 10%DETROIT FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $13k → 21%HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $9k → 8%DETROIT FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $9k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $32k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE OF MICHIGAN: $26k → 21%LAKERIDGE VILLAGE: $15k → 21%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC: $30k → 8%ST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER INC: $40k → 21%OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC: $10k → 8%ST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER: $30k → 21%YWCA OF METRO DETROIT: $7k → 21%GOD'S STOREHOUSE: $111k → 21%GOD'S STOREHOUSE: $16k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Forgotten Harvest Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 84%.

Forgotten Harvest Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 27 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
11

Total granted

$1.7M
$364k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+9%

Still filing today

56%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $753k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterEducationEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SP
    ST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $70k · revenue +74%
  • FL
    FISH & LOAVES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $69k · revenue +33%
  • COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN
    2× · 2024–2025 · $58k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • HM
    HARTFORD MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • YE
    YAD EZRA
    one grant, 2024 · $76k · revenue 0%
  • CC
    CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +21%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Loaves & Fishes the Church Without Walls

Community outreach and church services

Religion
2
Midland's Open Door

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…

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3
Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
Severe Weather Network Livingston County

The Severe Weather Network (SWN) partners with community organizations, agencies, and faith communities to provide emergency, overnight refuge during the winter months for people experiencing homelessness in Livingston County. SWN also…

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5
Christnet

A shared ministry with over fifty churches from various denominations who help to house and feed the homeless. Our guests receive a safe place to stay over night plus a hot meal meals. We also have a day program open year round where…

Human Services
6
Christian Community Response Team

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…

Human Services
7
Franciscan Ministries Inc

Create positive change in the lives of those we serve.

Human Services
8
Community Human Services Corporation

Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.

Human Services
9
Outreach East

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,…

Human Services
10
City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services
11
Faith House Ministries

Community outreach

Religion
12
Fresh Start Outreach Ministry Inc

It is the mission of Fresh Start Ministry to be the hands and feet of God by serving others in need in Monroe County. we have a mens and womans shelter and a program to help people get back on there feet

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries; 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.
05the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 73 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
17/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY COVENANT CHURCH-DETROIT MI: $149,996 · OtherCITY COVENANT CHURCH-DETROIT MIREDFORD INTERFAITH RELIEF: $129,235 · OtherREDFORD INTERFAITH RELIEFBELLEVILLE CHURCH OF GOD: $118,521 · OtherBELLEVILLE CHURCH OF GODHARTFORD MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $84,852 · OtherTWELFTH STREET FOOD PANTRY: $81,057 · OtherCHALDEAN AMERICAN LADIES OF CHARITY: $76,960 · OtherYAD EZRA: $75,550 · Other+42 more: $1,095,614 · Other+42 moreGODS STOREHOUSE: $126,633 · Human ServicesGODS STOREHOUSEST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesST PATRICK SENIOR C…COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $57,800 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE MICH…HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $43,302 · Human ServicesHOSPITALITY HOUSEOPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR OUTREACH …SOWING EMPOWERMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesSOWING EMPOWERMENT …Haven of Hope Community Outreach Inc: $27,466 · Human ServicesHaven of Hope Commu…DETROIT FRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC: $22,648 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SHARING: $17,020 · Human Services+3 more: $34,945 · Human Services+3 moreFISH & LOAVES: $69,310 · Food & NutritionOAKLAND HOPE: $38,291 · Food & NutritionNEXUS DETROIT: $28,500 · Food & NutritionEXODUS FOOD PANTRY: $14,906 · Food & NutritionOPERATION REFUGE: $12,590 · Food & NutritionMacomb County Veterans Food Bank: $5,815 · Food & NutritionPROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY: $60,000 · HealthDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $40,000 · HealthSOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN: $38,875 · EducationSER METRO DETROIT JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC: $27,463 · Employment
Other$1,911,785Human Services$479,814Food & Nutrition$169,412Health$100,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Education$38,875Employment$27,463

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGODS STOREHOUSE: $126,633 over 2y, 53% of budgetCHALDEAN AMERICAN LADIES OF CHARITY: $76,960 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYAD EZRA: $75,550 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFISH & LOAVES: $69,310 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetPROJECT HEALTHY COMMUNITY: $60,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $57,800 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $55,243 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $48,809 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE: $43,302 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN: $40,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MICHIGAN: $38,875 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $38,483 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOAKLAND HOPE: $38,291 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHaven of Hope Community Outreach Inc: $27,466 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetSER METRO DETROIT JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC: $27,463 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDETROIT FRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC: $22,648 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHAVEN INC: $19,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHARING: $17,020 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTURNING POINT INC: $12,698 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION REFUGE: $12,590 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMacomb County Veterans Food Bank: $5,815 over 1y, 3.0% of budget
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 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 CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR OUTREACH CENTER 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 ↗

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.

United Way for Southe…DTE Energy FoundationCommunity Foundation …Consumers Energy Foun…Comerica Charitable F…Ford PhilanthropyWayne-Metropolitan Co…The Skillman Foundati…The Jewish FundMcGregor FundThe Barton Malow Foun…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…
United Way for Southeastern MichiganMI49× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Forgotten Harvest Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Forgotten Harvest Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Sowing Empowerment and Economic Development Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home