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Joe & Pamela Kay Foundation at a glance

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Joe & Pamela Kay Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$463k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MHuman Services$558kFood & Nutrition$215kCommunity Improvement$132kHealth$131kArts & Culture$111kCrime & Legal$55kPhilanthropy$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY$200,000
BEYOND BASICS$50,000
FORGOTTEN HARVEST$50,000
DETROIT GOODFELLOWS$50,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER$22,800
NEW WINE MINISTRIES$20,000
JUSTICE FOR LILY$20,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
BRILLIANT DETRIOT$10,000
INNOCENCE PROJECT$10,000
BIRMINGHAM BLOOMFIELD ART CENTER$5,000
LACE UP DETROIT$5,000
HISTIOCYTOSIS ASSOCIATION$2,000
MISSION OAKLAND$2,000
5 GYRES INSTITUTE$1,000
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 (FY21–24, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%DUTTON FARM: $126k → 21%MITTENS FOR DETROIT: $2k → 8%LACE UP DETROIT: $5k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 8 repeat orgs$786k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$1.6M
$731k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+6%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • BB
    BEYOND BASICS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +140%
  • FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $190k · revenue +2%
  • DP
    DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA
    4× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • BS
    BEAUMONT SERVICE CENTER 5D
    one grant, 2022 · $510k
  • DF
    DUTTON FARMgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $126k · revenue +112%
  • VT
    VETERANS TRIBUTE OF OAKLAND CFOGR
    one grant, 2022 · $55k
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 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
2
About Face Detroit
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3
Michigan Enviromental Council

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

Environment
4
The Michigan Glass Project
Public Benefit
5
Detroit Donates Inc
Housing & Shelter
6
Metro Food Rescue

The mission of metro food rescue is simple; waste less, feed more. we rescue food that would otherwise be discarded and deliver it to a network of food partners. thereby, helping to feed individuals and families in need.

Food & Nutrition
7
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.

—
8
Better Business Bureau Detroit and Eastern Michigan Educational Foundation

To educate the public about unfair business practices fraud, and to make informed decisions when choosing entities to do business with.

—
9
Detroit Public Safety Foundation

To promote public safety by enhancing the capabilities of the detroit police department and the detroit fire department by facilitating access to world-class processes and operational tools

Education
10
Better Business Bureau Detroit and Eastern Michigan

Our mission is to be the leader in advancing marketplace trust. we accomplish this mission by: 1) creating a community of trustworthy businesses. 2) setting standards for marketplace trust. 3) encouraging and supporting best practices. 4)…

—
11
Friends of the Children - Detroit

Friends of the children - detroit has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Crime & Legal
12
The Detroit Public Library Friends Foundation Inc

To promote and enhance the city of detroit's cultural growth, all forms of literacy, an interest in books, and other forms of human record and to establish cooperative relationships and programs with the detroit public library and other…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Public Media; the most unlike its peers is The 5 Gyres Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $880,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYBEAUMONT SERVICE CENTER 5D: $510,000 · OtherBEAUMONT SERVICE CENTER 5DVETERANS TRIBUTE OF OAKLAND CFOGR: $55,000 · Other+17 more: $110,250 · Other+17 moreBEYOND BASICS: $250,000 · EducationBEYOND BASI…+1 more: $250 · EducationFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $190,000 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN …GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $25,000 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS C…DUTTON FARM: $126,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesLACE UP DETROIT INC: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesOLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUND OF DETROIT MICHIGAN: $130,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $2,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $30,000 · Arts & CultureBirmingham Bloomfield Art Ctr Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureJUSTICE FOR LILY: $45,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,555,250Education$250,250Food & Nutrition$215,000Human Services$146,000Community Improvement$132,000Arts & Culture$55,000Crime & Legal$45,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEYOND BASICS: $250,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $190,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUND OF DETROIT MICHIGAN: $130,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetDUTTON FARM: $126,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetJUSTICE FOR LILY: $45,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBirmingham Bloomfield Art Ctr Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $22,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLACE UP DETROIT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTIOCYTOSIS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMITTENS FOR DETROIT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe 5 Gyres Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREENING OF DETROIT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLARK PARK COALITION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Rochester Hills Public Library Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE: $200 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.

Community Foundation …DTE Energy FoundationThe Kresge FoundationUnited Jewish Foundat…United Way for Southe…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Joe & Pamela Kay Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joe & Pamela Kay Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 35 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-PF 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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