· Private foundation
John D & Jean E Dinan 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k49 grants · $203k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY HIGH SCHOOL | $32,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE CATHOLIC APOSTOLATE | $25,000 |
| THE POPE FRANCIS CENTER | $20,000 |
| UNIV OF DETROIT JESUIT HS | $20,000 |
| DETROIT CRISTO REY HS | $20,000 |
| ANGELS PLACE | $20,000 |
| THE PAJAMA PROGRAM | $16,000 |
| SS PETER AND PAUL JESUIT CHURCH | $15,000 |
| MI WORK MATTERS | $15,000 |
| LADIES OF CHARITY OF ST VINCEN | $14,000 |
| CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FARMINGTON DDA | $10,000 |
| HOLY REDEEMER CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $896k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
101 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 10 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
POPE FRANCIS CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $460k · revenue +202%- APANGELS' PLACE8× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +84%
- MWMI WORK MATTERS7× · 2018–2024 · $120k · revenue ×13 · 59% of their budget
Funded once
- DCDETROIT CRISTO REY JESUIT HSone grant, 2017 · $48k
- MOMONASTERY OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENTone grant, 2017 · $20k
- SDSWEET DREAMZZZ INCone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue -91%
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, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
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 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…
Community & home supports, inc. was founded to help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we strive to fulfill our purpose by developing, leading, and participating in collaborative and innovative efforts that support…
Catholic human services inc. enhances the lives of those we serve by providing hope-filled social, emotional and spiritual support to all people.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit
Detroit central city community mental health's mission is to achieve wellness in the community by providing an integrated array of mental health, housing and substance abuse services with diginity and respect.
We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…
Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vets Returning Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 171 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 POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' PLACE ↗
- Who funds MI WORK MATTERS ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds STARR COMMONWEALTH ↗
- Who funds CABRINI CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds THE GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTINE CHRISTIAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VETS RETURNING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER WAY DETROIT ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
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 · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Catholic Foundation of Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Ford Philanthropy · Myrtle E & Wm G Hess Charitable Trust · Thomas and Carol Cracchiolo Foundation · The Jewish Fund
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 John D & Jean E Dinan 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% 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.