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Henry Ford Health System

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care and healing.

$4.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$400k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Benefit$3.1MHealth$2.5MCommunity Improvement$1.6MArts & Culture$1.6MRecreation & Sports$430kEducation$365kHuman Services$174kYouth Development$132kOther$0
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 53 grants below total $2,054,716, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,630,206 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,575,490 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $627k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $935k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$12,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DDP BIKE SHARE CORPORATION$400,000
MIDTOWN DETROIT INC$233,333
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY$165,550
AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND$150,000
MICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION$135,000
THE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$111,500
OAKLAND UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS$90,000
CITY OF ROYAL OAK$50,000
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN$43,700
ROCKET GIVING FUND$40,000
LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY$40,000
DETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER$38,000
OAKLAND UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING$30,000
ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH AND RESEARCH CENTER$28,000
DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY$27,500
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 (FY18–24, $317k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METRO DETROIT: $11k → 8%ROCKET GIVING FUND: $45k → 21%ROCKET GIVING FUND: $40k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $8k → 8%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $6k → 21%ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH AND RESEARCH CENTER: $28k → 21%ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH AND RESEARCH CENTER: $28k → 21%ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH AND RESEARCH CENTER: $8k → 21%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $5k → 21%ARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $10k → 8%YUSEF BUNCHY SHAKUR INC: $7k → 21%ARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $6k → 8%ARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $5k → 8%THE CHILDREN S CENTER: $10k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SERVICES: $26k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SERVICES: $5k → 21%FAMILY CENTER OF GROSSE POINTE & HARPER WOODS: $10k → 21%FAMILY CENTER OF GROSSE POINTE & HARPER WOODS: $10k → 21%FAMILY CENTER OF GROSSE POINTE & HARPER WOODS: $10k → 21%FAMILY CENTER OF GROSSE POINTE & HARPER WOODS: $10k → 21%FAMILY CENTER OF GROSSE POINTE & HARPER WOODS: $8k → 21%THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $6k → 21%THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $6k → 21%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS: $6k → 21%GROSSE POINTE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLS ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
PA
MD
DC
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.8M · 56 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
53

Total granted

$8.8M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+18%

Still filing today

82%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • DB
    DDP BIKE SHARE CORPORATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +3% · 42% of their budget
  • AK
    AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +8%
  • MIDTOWN DETROIT INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $800k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +53%
  • CT
    COALITION TO STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S HEALTH CAREgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $98k · revenue ×19
  • DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $53k · revenue +470%
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
Detroit Regional Chamber

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.

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2
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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3
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

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4
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
5
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
6
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit

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7
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
8
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
9
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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10
Michigan Health Council

The mission of the michigan health council is to facilitate the education, recruitment and retention of a diverse healthcare workforce by maximizing technology and partnerships.

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11
Michigan Chamber Foundation

1) to plan and conduct nonpartisan public education programs regarding free enterprise, productivity and basic economic issues affecting the state of michigan.2) to establish and operate a leadership institute designed to provide promising…

Arts & Culture
12
Detroit Athletic Club

To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart of detroit.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Detroit Donates Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 124 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/108
Grantees still filing
70/108
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DDP BIKE SHARE CORPORATION: $3,000,000 · Public BenefitDDP BIKE SHARE CORPORATION+1 more: $5,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $1,160,000 · OtherAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INCOAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $295,200 · OtherOAKLAND UNIVERSITYDETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER: $242,499 · OtherDETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBERWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $212,250 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY+51 more: $954,745 · Other+51 moreMICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION: $900,250 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN THANKSGI…MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureMOTOWN HISTORICAL…+9 more: $223,075 · Arts & Culture+9 moreMIDTOWN DETROIT INC: $799,999 · Community ImprovementMIDTOWN DETRO…DETROIT BELLE ISLE GRAND PRIX INC: $208,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT BELLE…MICHIGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Community Improvement+10 more: $185,495 · Community Improvement+10 moreNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $190,800 · HealthNational Ki…American Heart Association Inc: $143,091 · HealthAmerican He…CARING ATHLETES TEAM FOR CHILDREN'S AND HENRY FORD HOSPITALS: $131,500 · HealthCARING ATHL…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $123,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S …COALITION TO STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE: $97,500 · HealthCOALITION T…NATIONAL MEDICAL FELLOWSHIPS INC: $55,750 · HealthRACING FOR KIDS: $52,500 · HealthMichigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation: $40,000 · Health+17 more: $254,550 · Health+17 moreARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $94,750 · Human ServicesROCKET GIVING FUND: $84,500 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY CENTER OF GROSSE POINTE & HARPER WOODS: $47,500 · Human ServicesARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $21,250 · Human ServicesSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $18,000 · Human Services+7 more: $51,275 · Human ServicesDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $52,500 · EducationLAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationINFORUM: $19,500 · EducationINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM INC: $10,000 · EducationCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $10,000 · EducationUNITED STROKE ALLIANCE: $9,000 · Education
Public Benefit$3,005,000Other$2,864,694Arts & Culture$1,623,325Community Improvement$1,243,494Health$1,088,691Human Services$317,275Education$141,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDDP BIKE SHARE CORPORATION: $3,000,000 over 7y, 42% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $1,160,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION: $900,250 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetMIDTOWN DETROIT INC: $799,999 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $500,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetDETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER: $242,499 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetDETROIT BELLE ISLE GRAND PRIX INC: $208,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $190,800 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $143,091 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCARING ATHLETES TEAM FOR CHILDREN'S AND HENRY FORD HOSPITALS: $131,500 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $123,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOALITION TO STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE: $97,500 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $94,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROCKET GIVING FUND: $84,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMICHIGAN ROUNDTABLE FOR JUST COMMUNITIES: $60,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL MEDICAL FELLOWSHIPS INC: $55,750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRACING FOR KIDS: $52,500 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetNW GOLDBERG CARES INC: $51,875 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetWOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR & SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM DETROIT METRO: $50,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetMICHIGAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetDETROIT ECONOMIC CLUB: $48,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FAMILY CENTER OF GROSSE POINTE & HARPER WOODS: $47,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetDETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMichigan Physical Fitness Health and Sports Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHALDEAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC DBA CHALDEAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $37,495 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $35,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetNFX: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF DETROIT AND SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $34,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $31,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD ESTATE: $30,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC: $27,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHVILLE COMMUNITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $21,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBING YOUTH INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDETROIT REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION: $19,500 over 2y, 1.8% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …DTE Energy FoundationThe Skillman Foundati…United Way for Southe…Ford PhilanthropyHenry Ford Southeast …The Kresge FoundationMichigan Health Endow…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Health Alliance Plan …WK Kellogg FoundationUnited Jewish Foundat…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI70.4× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Ford Philanthropy · Henry Ford Southeast Michigan Community Health · The Kresge Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Health Alliance Plan of Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · United Jewish 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 Henry Ford Health System funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry Ford Health System. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
25report 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 124 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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