· Private foundation
Joanne and John Carter Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF METRO DETROIT | $13,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
| THE CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DETROIT REGIONAL DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SENIOR MENS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $2,500 |
| DETROIT CHILDREN'S CENTER | $2,500 |
| DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN | $2,000 |
| BEYOND BASICS | $1,000 |
| LAFAYETTE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Joanne and John Carter Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 61%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 5 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JCJUDSON CENTER INC6× · 2017–2023 · $44k · revenue +57%
- CDCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +195%
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC8× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TKTHE KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +8%
- LSLANDON SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +48%
- ARA R T I Sone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
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.…
Dunwoody college changes lives by building opportunities for graduates to have successful careers, to develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and to engage in "the better performance of life's duties." quote is from the last will and…
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.
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.
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.…
Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…
To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 70 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JUDSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds THE RAINBOW CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds MOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALMA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds LANDON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BASICS ↗
- Who funds THE BALDWIN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · The Carls Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Mihalich Charitable Foundation · Deroy Testamentary Foundation · Eagles for Children · Fca Foundation · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joanne and John Carter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joanne and John Carter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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