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Hudson-Webber Foundation at a glance

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Hudson-Webber Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
170
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$17MPhilanthropy$6.8MArts & Culture$6.1MEnvironment$2.8MHousing & Shelter$1.8MCrime & Legal$1.5MHuman Services$1.1MFood & Nutrition$912kOther$0
02FY2024 · 170 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k70 grants · $152k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k42 grants · $5.0M
  • $250k+8 grants · $2.9M
$14,400
Median grant
9
States reached
$167M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$250,000
DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION$250,000
DETROIT ECONOMIC GROWTH ASSOCIATION$250,000
LOCAL INITIATIVE SUPPORT CORPORATION$225,000
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATES OF DETROIT$225,000
ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC$225,000
DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC$200,000
JOE LOUIS GREENWAY PARTNERSHIP$200,000
INVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION$200,000
DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC$200,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIDES CENTER: $75k → 10%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $100k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $100k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $25k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $25k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $25k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $1k → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $200 → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT: $5k → 14%ARAB-AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: $20k → 21%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT INC: $5k → 14%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT INC: $3k → 14%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $100k → 16%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $100k → 16%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT: $1k → 14%BASBLUE INC: $50k → 21%BASBLUE INC: $50k → 21%FORCE DETROIT INC: $250k → 21%FORCE DETROIT INC: $100k → 21%FORCE DETROIT INC: $100k → 21%LIFE LEADERS INC: $4k → 21%ACCESS: $25k → 21%ACCESS: $25k → 21%ACCESS: $25k → 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

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36M · 129 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

129
62

Total granted

$36M
$945k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+32%

Still filing today

81%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $885k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +51%
  • THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +14%
  • UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • EC
    ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS DETROIT
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +178%
  • MS
    METRO SOLUTIONS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +26%
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 Economic Growth Corporation

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

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2
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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3
Michigan Enviromental Council

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

Environment
4
Endeavor Detroit

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…

Community Improvement
5
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
6
Connect Detroit

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.

Community Improvement
7
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
8
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

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9
Detroit Jews for Justice

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

Civil Rights
10
Say Detroit

Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.

Housing & Shelter
11
Michigan Legacy Art Park

Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.

Arts & Culture
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan; 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.
04the grantee network

172 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
169/172
Grantees still filing
108/172
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE: $2,500,000 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTUREMIDTOWN DETROIT INC: $1,830,000 · Community ImprovementMIDTOWN DETROIT INCINVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION: $1,765,000 · Community ImprovementINVEST DETROIT FOUNDATIONLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $1,575,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONDEVELOP DETROIT INC: $1,050,000 · Community ImprovementDEVELOP DETROIT INCJEFFERSON EAST INC: $890,000 · Community ImprovementJEFFERSON EAST INCDOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP INC: $850,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP INCCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATES OF DETROIT: $655,500 · Community ImprovementDetroit Future City: $529,200 · Community Improvement+15 more: $2,275,405 · Community Improvement+15 moreTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $1,358,650 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INS…DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $731,200 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPHON…CULTURESOURCE: $647,500 · Arts & CultureCULTURESOURCEALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $420,500 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PR…MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY: $344,700 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF AFRIC…MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $332,700 · Arts & CultureMOTOWN HISTORIC…Detroit Historical Society: $326,900 · Arts & CultureDetroit Histori…DETROIT OPERA: $275,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $215,000 · Arts & Culture+20 more: $1,323,990 · Arts & Culture+20 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $4,090,250 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUN…THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $664,937 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACKBAUD …COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: $578,550 · PhilanthropyCOUNCIL OF MIC…+10 more: $198,615 · PhilanthropyENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $1,685,000 · OtherENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS …MICHIGAN NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: $425,000 · OtherDETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION: $900,000 · OtherDETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS C…UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $1,108,300 · OtherUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MI…Detroit Justice Center: $577,000 · OtherEASTERN MARKET CORPORATION: $901,500 · OtherEASTERN MARKET CORPORATIONCHANDLER PARK CONSERVANCY: $550,500 · Other+102 more: $5,353,218 · Other+102 moreDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC: $2,209,800 · Recreation & SportsJOE LOUIS GREENWAY PARTNERSHIP: $550,000 · Recreation & SportsDETROIT PARKS COALITION: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $722,000 · EducationCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $365,000 · EducationMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER: $125,000 · EducationDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Education+11 more: $76,600 · EducationMICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $476,200 · Human ServicesFORCE Detroit Inc: $450,000 · Human ServicesBASBLUE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $95,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $75,000 · Human Services+2 more: $18,400 · Human Services
Community Improvement$13,920,105Arts & Culture$5,976,140Philanthropy$5,532,352Other$11,500,518Recreation & Sports$2,959,800Education$1,388,600Human Services$1,214,600

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $4,090,250 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE: $2,500,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC: $2,209,800 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetMIDTOWN DETROIT INC: $1,830,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetINVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION: $1,765,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $1,575,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $1,358,650 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $1,108,300 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetDEVELOP DETROIT INC: $1,050,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetEASTERN MARKET CORPORATION: $901,500 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetDETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION: $900,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetJEFFERSON EAST INC: $890,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetDOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP INC: $850,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $731,200 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $722,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $664,937 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATES OF DETROIT: $655,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetCULTURESOURCE: $647,500 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: $578,550 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetDetroit Justice Center: $577,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetCHANDLER PARK CONSERVANCY: $550,500 over 5y, 42% of budgetJOE LOUIS GREENWAY PARTNERSHIP: $550,000 over 2y, 75% of budgetDetroit Future City: $529,200 over 4y, 14% of budgetMICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $476,200 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetFORCE Detroit Inc: $450,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMICHIGAN NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: $425,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $420,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: $400,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMICHIGAN FUTURE INC: $375,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $365,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHN HOUSING PARTNERS: $350,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW DETROIT INC: $350,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetMUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY: $344,700 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $332,700 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetCITIZENS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN INC: $329,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetDetroit Historical Society: $326,900 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetDETROIT ECONOMIC GROWTH ASSOCIATION: $307,250 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetGENESIS HARBOR OF OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING EXCELLENCE: $300,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DEFENDER SERVICE INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDETROIT OPERA: $275,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSouthWest Detroit Business Association: $260,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR MICHIGAN: $256,250 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetLIVE6 ALLIANCE: $250,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetMICHIGAN CENTER FOR YOUTH JUSTICE: $250,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetRENAISSANCE OF HOPE INC: $250,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetDETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $220,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $215,000 over 5y, 7.2% 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.

The Kresge FoundationCommunity Foundation …DTE Energy FoundationThe Fred & Barbara Er…The Skillman Foundati…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…McGregor FundThe Gilbert Family Fo…Ford PhilanthropyWK Kellogg FoundationWilliam Davidson Foun…Max M & Marjorie S Fi…
The Kresge FoundationMI123.8× affinity80 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hudson-Webber Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hudson-Webber Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
38report 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 223 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-PF 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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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