· Private foundation
James and Lynelle Holden Fund
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $30,000 |
| DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $18,500 |
| A JOURNEY FOR HOUSING | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $5,500 |
| CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN | $5,500 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $5,500 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA | $5,500 |
| VISTA MARIA | $5,500 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $5,500 |
| COTS | $5,500 |
| YMCA CAMPING SERVICES | $5,000 |
| PENRICKTON CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| FURNITURE BANK OF SE MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- UOUniversity of Michigan6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +139%
- DZDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +106%
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY5× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- BBOLDLIone grant, 2024 · $3k
- CFCROSSROADS FOR YOUTHgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +26%
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.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart of 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 be a champion for parents of children in the community.
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.
CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.
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 provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Michigan Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Mary - St Paul Ministry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 34 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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds ST MARY - ST PAUL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
- Who funds COTS ↗
- Who funds Penrickton Center for Blind Children ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
- Who funds ENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
- Who funds OLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUND OF DETROIT MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE GREENING OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds SHADES OF PINK 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 · Ford Philanthropy · Oliver Dewey Marcks Foundation · Detroit Industrial School · Flagstar Foundation Inc · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Molinello Family Foundation · Ralph L & Winifred E Polk Foundation · World Heritage Foundation · Young Woman's Home Association of Detroit Michigan
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 James and Lynelle Holden Fund 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.
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% 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.