· Public charity
Ilitch Charities Inc
Provide support to children and family programs in the areas of health, recreation and education.
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.
The 25 grants below total $1,610,815 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,959,708 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $348,893 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $244k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LCAHL | $618,086 |
| VARIOUS SOFTBALL-BASEBALL LITTLE LEAGUE CAMPS | $406,742 |
| MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART - DETROIT | $100,000 |
| COLEMAN A YOUNG FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MARINERS INN | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN | $36,000 |
| ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS | $30,906 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $26,147 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN | $25,816 |
| VARIOUS RECIPIENTS | $25,067 |
| MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $24,843 |
| FISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN | $20,000 |
| VARIOUS RECIPIENTS - ON THE FLY HOCKEY | $13,750 |
| DETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY | $10,716 |
| KINGMAN NORTH LITTLE LEAGUE | $10,485 |
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, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Ilitch Charities Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 12 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $834k 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 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2023 · $233k · revenue +73%
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN2× · 2020–2021 · $194k · revenue +44%
DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED3× · 2020–2022 · $127k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- ONOUR NEIGHBORHOODS FIRSTone grant, 2020 · $250k
- MGMEIJER GREAT LAKES LIMITED PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2023 · $137k
MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORYone grant, 2022 · $104k · revenue -39%
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.
To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart 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.…
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.…
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
To conduct interscholastic athletic tournaments throughout the state, consistent with educational values of high school curriculums, to provide assistance in the training of coaches, athletic directors and officials, as well as the…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
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.
To encourage michigan residents of all ages and abilities to live active and healthy lifestyles
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 foster the physical, mental and emotional growth and development of michigan's youth through the sport of soccer by providing the governing structure to administer youth soccer in the state of michigan and to provide information to…
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.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Angels Share. 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 23 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 72 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
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 WAYNE COUNTY-DETROIT CDE INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
- Who funds MARINERS INN ↗
- Who funds COLEMAN A YOUNG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MARKET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT ↗
- Who funds DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds MIGUEL CABRERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE CAESARS AAA HOCKEY CLUB ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Motor City Veterans Hockey Association ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN SPORTS HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SAY DETROIT ↗
- Who funds KultureCity ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLARK PARK COALITION ↗
- Who funds JACK'S PLACE FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Angels Share ↗
- Who funds AFFIRMATIONS COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
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: Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ford Philanthropy · The Skillman Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · Hudson-Webber Foundation · Ally Charitable Foundation · Gilbert Family 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 Ilitch Charities Inc 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.
- Miguel Cabrera Foundation Inc — 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.
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