· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- BBBEYOND BASICS5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +140%
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC5× · 2020–2024 · $190k · revenue +2%- DPDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA4× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- BSBEAUMONT SERVICE CENTER 5Done grant, 2022 · $510k
- DFDUTTON FARMgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $126k · revenue +112%
- VTVETERANS TRIBUTE OF OAKLAND CFOGRone grant, 2022 · $55k
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.
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…
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
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.
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.
To educate the public about unfair business practices fraud, and to make informed decisions when choosing entities to do business with.
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
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)…
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Public Media and 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 35 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 BEYOND BASICS ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds OLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUND OF DETROIT MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds DUTTON FARM ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR LILY ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Bloomfield Art Ctr Inc ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LACE UP DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION OAKLAND ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HISTIOCYTOSIS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MITTENS FOR DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds The 5 Gyres Institute ↗
- Who funds THE GREENING OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds CLARK PARK COALITION ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Rochester Hills Public Library Inc ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE ↗
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 · 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
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 Joe & Pamela Kay Foundation 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.
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.