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Ascension Southeast Michigan Community Health

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

$105k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0164% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20192023.

Health$277kArts & Culture$171kHuman Services$124kCommunity Improvement$88kEducation$63kPhilanthropy$59kFood & Nutrition$52kCrime & Legal$41kCivil Rights$13kOther$563k
02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $85,494 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $105,110 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,616 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
$6,650
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL$14,650
RACING FOR KIDS$14,400
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN$13,500
GUEST HOUSE INC$12,887
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE$6,650
DETROIT MOTTEP FOUNDATION$6,500
THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER DETROIT$5,750
CHALDEAN AMERICAN LADIES OF CHARITY$5,657
MICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION$5,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $10k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $8k → 21%SOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER: $11k → 8%ARAB AMER CHALDEAN COUNCIL: $10k → 8%SOCIETY ST VINCENT DEPAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE: $8k → 21%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC: $29k → 21%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS: $12k → 21%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS: $10k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$828k · 26 repeat orgs$586k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
47

Total granted

$828k
$545k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+37%

Still filing today

88%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $62k · revenue +43%
  • CO
    CARE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    4× · 2019–2022 · $56k · revenue +13%
  • GH
    GUEST HOUSE INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $55k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORGgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $53k · revenue +838%
  • DJ
    DETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue -6%
  • VISTA MARIAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $29k · revenue +37%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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.

2
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

3
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
4
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.…

5
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
6
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

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

7
Michigan Enviromental Council

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

Environment
8
Detroit Food Policy Council

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…

Food & Nutrition
9
Metro Detroit Black Chamber of Commerce Foundation

To develop programs and advocate for policies that result in profitable and sustainable black-owned businesses that are connected to public and private economic opportunities, while building trusted relationships.

10
Michigan Pharmacists Association

To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.

11
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Links Foundation Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Edsel & Eleanor Ford House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyInternational Humanitarian …Local Heritage & Parks Stew…Private Recreational ClubsHousing and Supportive Serv…Detroit Community Health Se…Healthcare Systems and Prov…Jewish Community Philanthro…Children's Health & Wellnes…Industry Trade AssociationsAsian Cultural & Religious …Michigan Civic EngagementDetroit Community Developme…Faith-Based Community Suppo…Professional & Trade Associ…Performing Arts Organizatio…Detroit Neighborhood Revita…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr13%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr13%42%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/78
the rest of the field
17%
2,883/16,530

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.

04the grantee network

65 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 78 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
47/65
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $54,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGANNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE — $50,850 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED …URBAN LEAGUE OF DETROIT AND SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $39,241 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF DETROIT AND SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGANFOUNDATION OF MI ASSO OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN HERITAGE — $38,950 · OtherFOUNDATION OF MI ASSO OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN HERITA…SOUTHFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $29,780 · OtherVISTA MARIA — $29,072 · OtherOAKLAND UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · OtherTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND — $22,278 · OtherGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $32,570 · OtherTHE CHALDEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $34,937 · Other+28 more — $311,131 · Other+28 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc — $62,120 · HealthAmerican Heart Associ…CARE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $55,949 · HealthCARE OF SOUTHEASTERN …GUEST HOUSE INC — $55,347 · HealthGUEST HOUSE INCDETROIT MOTTEP FOUNDATION INC — $15,500 · HealthDETROIT MOTTEP FOUNDA…MICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION — $14,500 · HealthRACING FOR KIDS — $14,400 · HealthFontbonne Auxiliary of St Johns — $11,000 · HealthTHE FUTURES FOUNDATION — $9,320 · Health+5 more — $38,730 · Health+5 moreDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $51,985 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPH…DETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT JAZZ …MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY — $30,880 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF AFR…Detroit Historical Society — $14,550 · Arts & CultureDetroit Histo…MICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION — $10,850 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN THAN…MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $9,701 · Arts & CultureMOTOWN HISTOR…THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $6,500 · Arts & CultureINDIA LEAGUE OF AMERICA MICHIGAN — $6,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC — $5,800 · Arts & CultureSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER — $51,265 · Human ServicesSERVICES …COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN — $18,020 · Human ServicesCOVENANT …ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL — $14,650 · Human ServicesZAMAN INT…TURNING POINT INC — $11,050 · Human ServicesTURNING P…LIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY — $10,680 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUS…ARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL — $10,000 · Human ServicesARAB AMER…SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT — $8,190 · Human ServicesSOCIETY O…CHALDEAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC DBA CHALDEAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $35,200 · Community ImprovementGROSSE POINTE CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Community ImprovementMOROSS GREENWAY PROJECT — $20,000 · Community ImprovementMETROPOLITAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $6,440 · Community ImprovementASSOCIATED FOOD & PETROLEUM DEALERS INC — $6,000 · Community ImprovementINFORUM — $36,200 · EducationMACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $9,200 · EducationPEARLS OF SERVICE FOUNDATION — $9,000 · EducationBEYOND BASICS — $8,680 · EducationTHE DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORG — $52,500 · PhilanthropyROTARY CLUB OF GROSSE POINTE SUNRISE FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · Philanthropy
Other$668,309Health$276,866Arts & Culture$171,266Human Services$123,855Community Improvement$87,640Education$63,080Philanthropy$58,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $62,120 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $55,949 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGUEST HOUSE INC — $55,347 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $54,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORG — $52,500 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $51,985 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER — $51,265 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF DETROIT AND SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $39,241 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION OF MI ASSO OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN HERITAGE — $38,950 over 2y, 58% of budgetINFORUM — $36,200 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHALDEAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC DBA CHALDEAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $35,200 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetDETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHALDEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $34,937 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $32,570 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY — $30,880 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $29,780 over 2y, 11% of budgetVISTA MARIA — $29,072 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND — $22,278 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE — $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOROSS GREENWAY PROJECT — $20,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $19,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN — $18,020 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMACOMB COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $18,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetDETROIT MOTTEP FOUNDATION INC — $15,500 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetZAMAN INTERNATIONAL — $14,650 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDetroit Historical Society — $14,550 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION — $14,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRACING FOR KIDS — $14,400 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetHOWELL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $13,140 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC — $12,784 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTURNING POINT INC — $11,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFontbonne Auxiliary of St Johns — $11,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION — $10,850 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHALDEAN AMERICAN LADIES OF CHARITY — $10,757 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY — $10,680 over 1y, 19% of budgetARAB AMERICAN AND CHALDEAN COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $9,701 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUTURES FOUNDATION — $9,320 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetMACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $9,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEARLS OF SERVICE FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNEW HOPE CENTER FOR GRIEF SUPPORT INC — $8,930 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $8,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND BASICS — $8,680 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL IN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT — $8,190 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORATIO WILLIAMS FOUNDATION — $7,900 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI62× affinity33 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 · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Henry Ford Health System · Ford Philanthropy · The Kresge Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Henry Ford Health Providence Hospital · Hudson-Webber 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 Ascension Southeast Michigan Community Health 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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, FY2025

    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.

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    How do I get to Ascension Southeast Michigan Community Health?

    Find your warmest path to Ascension Southeast Michigan Community Health through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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