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Hudson-Webber Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k70 grants · $152k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k42 grants · $5.0M
- $250k+8 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC | $550,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE | $500,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN | $400,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN | $400,000 |
| MIDTOWN DETROIT INC | $300,000 |
| DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| DETROIT ECONOMIC GROWTH ASSOCIATION | $250,000 |
| THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $250,000 |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATES OF DETROIT | $225,000 |
| ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC | $225,000 |
| LOCAL INITIATIVE SUPPORT CORPORATION | $225,000 |
| DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC | $200,000 |
| JOE LOUIS GREENWAY PARTNERSHIP | $200,000 |
| DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC | $200,000 |
| INVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
129 repeat relationships — 90 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 22 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $885k 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
DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +51%
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +14%
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +42%
Funded once
- ECENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS DETROITone grant, 2021 · $200k
DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +73%- UCUNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +178%
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.
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
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.…
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Endeavor Detroit is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Michigan and the wider Great Lakes region, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in the…
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.…
To strategically solve problems through collaboratives with City of Detroit Departments, nonprofit organizations and local grant makers in order to secure the maximum federal, state, and national foundation dollars for the city Detroit.
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…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors
Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Motor City Sings. 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.
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 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
172 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. 172 of the 223 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds INVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds DEVELOP DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MARKET CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON EAST INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATES OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds CULTURESOURCE ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds Detroit Justice Center ↗
- Who funds CHANDLER PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds JOE LOUIS GREENWAY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Detroit Future City ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds FORCE Detroit Inc ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES ↗
- Who funds NEW DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds CHN HOUSING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
- Who funds MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ECONOMIC GROWTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEFENDER SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS HARBOR OF OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING EXCELLENCE ↗
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: The Kresge Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · McGregor Fund · The Gilbert Family Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · WK Kellogg Foundation · William Davidson Foundation · Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Inc
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 Hudson-Webber Foundation 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.
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% 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.