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Ilitch Charities Inc

Provide support to children and family programs in the areas of health, recreation and education.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$618k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$3.5MYouth Development$1.1MCommunity Improvement$607kHealth$349kEducation$243kArts & Culture$217kPhilanthropy$179kEmployment$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $1,610,815, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,959,708 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $348,893 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 $10k8 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $244k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$13,750
Median grant
5
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LCAHL$618,086
VARIOUS SOFTBALL-BASEBALL LITTLE LEAGUE CAMPS$406,742
MARINERS INN$100,000
COLEMAN A YOUNG FOUNDATION$100,000
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART - DETROIT$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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KULTURE CITY: $24k → 16%CALVIN JOHNSON JR FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $7k → 21%THINK DETROIT PAL: $31k → 21%DETROIT PAL: $51k → 21%DETROIT PAL: $45k → 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
MI
NY
CA
MO
AZ
OK
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Ilitch Charities Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 82%.

Ilitch Charities Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 22 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
38

Total granted

$4.5M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+14%

Still filing today

73%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $834k 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
Recreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2023 · $233k · revenue +73%
  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    2× · 2020–2021 · $194k · revenue +44%
  • UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    3× · 2021–2024 · $171k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • ON
    OUR NEIGHBORHOODS FIRST
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • MG
    MEIJER GREAT LAKES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2023 · $137k
  • MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
    one grant, 2022 · $104k · revenue -39%
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 Athletic Club

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

—
2
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
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.…

—
4
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

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

—
5
Michigan High School Athletic Assoc

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…

Education
6
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

—
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
Michigan Sports Alliance

To encourage michigan residents of all ages and abilities to live active and healthy lifestyles

Recreation & Sports
9
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
10
Michigan State Youth Soccer Assoc

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…

Recreation & Sports
11
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.

—
12
Michigan Enviromental Council

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

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan; 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.
05the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
36/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LCAHL: $1,590,908 · OtherLCAHLLEAGUE APPS - FALLSUMMER BASEBALL LITTLE LEAGUE CAMPS: $635,550 · OtherLEAGUE APPS - FALLSUMMER BASEBALL LITTLE LEAGUE CAMPSVARIOUS SOFTBALL-BASEBALL LITTLE LEAGUE CAMPS: $406,742 · OtherVARIOUS SOFTBALL-BASEBALL LITTLE LEAGUE CAMPSOUR NEIGHBORHOODS FIRST: $250,000 · OtherOUR NEIGHBORHOODS FIRSTIndividual grant recipient: $234,884 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVARIOUS: $215,008 · OtherUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $171,000 · Other+30 more: $889,990 · Other+30 moreWAYNE COUNTY-DETROIT CDE INC: $441,310 · Community ImprovementWAYNE COUNT…EASTERN MARKET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $100,000 · Community ImprovementEASTERN MAR…WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: $100,000 · Community ImprovementWAYNE STATE…+2 more: $15,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsMIGUEL CABRERA FOUNDATION INC: $95,262 · Recreation & SportsLITTLE CAESARS AAA HOCKEY CLUB: $67,000 · Recreation & SportsMotor City Veterans Hockey Association: $59,959 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $44,010 · Recreation & SportsCLARK PARK COALITION: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsEAST SIDE YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports+6 more: $33,580 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $133,662 · HealthMARINERS INN: $100,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $61,966 · HealthNFX: $15,000 · Health+3 more: $19,165 · HealthMUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY: $104,375 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $40,000 · Arts & CultureAngels Share: $19,000 · Arts & CultureNW GOLDBERG CARES INC: $12,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $7,614 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $232,775 · EducationDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $10,716 · EducationTHE MICHIGAN HISPANIC COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $193,679 · Youth Development
Other$4,394,082Community Improvement$656,310Recreation & Sports$439,811Health$329,793Arts & Culture$283,489Education$253,491Youth Development$193,679

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 budgetWAYNE COUNTY-DETROIT CDE INC: $441,310 over 2y, 56% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $232,775 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $193,679 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $171,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $133,662 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $127,025 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY: $104,375 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEASTERN MARKET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $100,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMARINERS INN: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOLEMAN A YOUNG FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMIGUEL CABRERA FOUNDATION INC: $95,262 over 3y, 44% of budgetLITTLE CAESARS AAA HOCKEY CLUB: $67,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $61,966 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMotor City Veterans Hockey Association: $59,959 over 3y, 49% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $44,010 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $40,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $34,075 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $30,906 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN: $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSAY DETROIT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKultureCity: $24,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJACK'S PLACE FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCLARK PARK COALITION: $20,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetEAST SIDE YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetAngels Share: $19,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetAFFIRMATIONS COMMUNITY CENTER: $18,296 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $16,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNFX: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHARLES HUMPHREY KEATING IV FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDETROIT DOG RESCUE: $13,192 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKINGDOM HOME: $12,750 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNW GOLDBERG CARES INC: $12,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $10,716 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATION: $10,113 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCalvin Johnson Jr Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE MICHIGAN HISPANIC COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAnchoRRa: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $9,388 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $8,818 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUTH ELLIS CENTER: $8,580 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFREE MOM HUGS INC: $7,614 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $7,270 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $6,665 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

DTE Energy FoundationCommunity Foundation …Ford PhilanthropyThe Skillman Foundati…The Kresge FoundationChildren's Hospital o…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…United Way for Southe…Ethel and James Flinn…Hudson-Webber Foundat…Ally Charitable Found…Gilbert Family Founda…
DTE Energy FoundationMI37.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ilitch Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ilitch Charities Inc. 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Miguel Cabrera Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ilitch Charities Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ilitch Charities Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 72 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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