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Investment Professionals for Charity Inc
Dedicated to raise funds for charities impacting the lives of children in our communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $103,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $180,336 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $77,336 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GABBY'S GRIEF CENTER | $25,000 |
| AUTISM SPEAKS | $15,000 |
| BIG'S KIDS | $15,000 |
| CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| JULIE BILLIART SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| MARY'S COURT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| MARINERS INN | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- ESEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2023 · $49k · revenue +56%
- GLGABBY'S LADDER INC5× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +193%
- MIMARINERS INN3× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- GFGRACE FARMS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +29%
- CCCOUNTRY CLUB OF DETROIT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $15k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -81%
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.
We help families build bright futures by providing trauma-informed pediatric behavioral health care within a learning community to change the lives of children and families.
The foundation for catholic secondary education exists to financially support education programs of catholic central high school and west catholic high through tuition assistance, faculty enhancement and program/facilities
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Philanthropically supporting a family of organizations caring for over 2,900 children with some of the most challenging medical conditions on earth at elizabeth seton children's center, elizabeth seton children's school and elizabeth seton…
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
The catholic foundation of michigan inspires charitable giving and assists donors in investing in the future of catholic parishes, schools and nonprofit organizations.
The catholic schools foundation changes lives by providing families with demonstrated financial need an opportunity to give thier sons and daughters a quality education, focused on christian values and character formation at catholic…
Educational.
Saints incorporated, a premier company, is dedicated to providing persons with disabilities with a quality experience in a home setting and/or employment within the community which fulfills to the best of our ability the physical, social,…
The christ child society of detroit is an organization serving the metropolitan detroit and out-state areas of michigan by promoting the well-being of disadvantaged children and their families.
The bcbsm foundation's mission is to support healthcare research and innovative programs designed to improve the health of michigan residents. our vision is that michigan's population will enjoy improved health and access to quality…
Catholic charities, diocese of trenton, inspired by our catholic faith and shared values, restores dignity and independence to individuals and families, especially the poor and vulnerable, through service, advocacy and community building.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Evans Scholars Foundation - Ohio Chapter. 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 27 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 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 49 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 CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GABBY'S LADDER INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds MARINERS INN ↗
- Who funds EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION - OHIO CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds RACQUET UP DETROIT ↗
- Who funds GRACE FARMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VETS RETURNING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY CLUB OF DETROIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FATHER CLEMENT H KERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PLAY RIGHT SPORTS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL DREAMS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds JULIE BILLIART NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MARY'S COURT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATON INC ↗
- Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Prevent Blindness Wisconsin ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Vincent Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds BENEDICTINE SCHOOL FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CELANI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds SWB Pinstripes Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds UNSUNG SIBLINGS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Eton Academy ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN OF THE FATHER FOUNDATION ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Investment Professionals for Charity 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.
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% 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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