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John D & Jean E Dinan Foundation at a glance

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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.

$562k
Granted FY2024still arriving
73
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$853kHuman Services$713kHousing & Shelter$655kReligion$457kHealth$292kFood & Nutrition$175kEmployment$120kYouth Development$66kOther$0
02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k49 grants · $203k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $360k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY HIGH SCHOOL$32,000
RIGHT TO LIFE$30,000
SOCIETY OF THE CATHOLIC APOSTOLATE$25,000
UNIV OF DETROIT JESUIT HS$20,000
DETROIT CRISTO REY HS$20,000
THE POPE FRANCIS CENTER$20,000
ANGELS PLACE$20,000
THE PAJAMA PROGRAM$16,000
MI WORK MATTERS$15,000
SS PETER AND PAUL JESUIT CHURCH$15,000
LADIES OF CHARITY OF ST VINCEN$14,000
CARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS$12,500
GUIDANCE CENTER$10,000
GESU CATHOLIC SCHOOL$10,000
HAVE FAITH IN HAITI$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $10k → 14%THE POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $85k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $80k → 21%THE POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $80k → 21%THE POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $80k → 21%THE POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $80k → 21%THE POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $20k → 21%THE POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $20k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $15k → 21%MI WORK MATTERS: $30k → 21%MI WORK MATTERS: $15k → 21%MI WORK MATTERS: $15k → 21%MI WORK MATTERS: $15k → 21%MI WORK MATTERS: $15k → 21%MI WORK MATTERS: $15k → 21%MI WORK MATTERS: $15k → 21%ANGELS PLACE: $25k → 8%ANGELS PLACE: $25k → 8%ANGELS PLACE: $20k → 8%ANGELS PLACE: $20k → 8%ANGELS PLACE: $20k → 8%ANGELS PLACE: $20k → 8%ANGELS PLACE: $20k → 8%ANGELS PLACE: $20k → 8%FOCUS HOPE: $5k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE OF MICHIGAN: $5k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $5k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $5k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $2k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE OF MICHIGAN: $2k → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $2k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE OF MICHIGAN: $2k → 21%BETTER WAY DETROIT: $8k → 21%BETTER WAY DETROIT: $7k → 21%BETTER WAY DETROIT: $5k → 21%BETTER WAY DETROIT: $5k → 21%BETTER WAY DETROIT: $5k → 21%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $10k → 21%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $10k → 21%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $10k → 21%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $10k → 21%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $10k → 21%ST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER: $3k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $5k → 21%METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME SOCIE: $5k → 21%METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY: $3k → 21%METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME SOCIE: $3k → 21%METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME SOCIE: $3k → 21%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
MD
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 101 repeat orgs$315k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
59

Total granted

$3.6M
$262k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+21%

Still filing today

40%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionInternationalEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • POPE FRANCIS CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $460k · revenue +202%
  • AP
    ANGELS' PLACE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +84%
  • MW
    MI WORK MATTERS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $120k · revenue ×13 · 59% of their budget

Funded once

  • DC
    DETROIT CRISTO REY JESUIT HS
    one grant, 2017 · $48k
  • MO
    MONASTERY OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • SD
    SWEET DREAMZZZ INC
    one grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue -91%
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
Trinity Health - Michigan

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.

Health
2
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

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…

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3
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
4
Community & Home Supports Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Catholic Human Services Inc

Catholic human services inc. enhances the lives of those we serve by providing hope-filled social, emotional and spiritual support to all people.

Human Services
6
Michigan Enviromental Council

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

Environment
7
St Johns Community Center

to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit

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8
Detroit Central City Cmh Inc

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.

Health
9
Saint Joseph's Mercy Care Services Inc

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…

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10
The Greater Detroit Health Transition Company

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.…

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11
Cathedral Center Inc

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…

Religion
12
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 171 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/62
Grantees still filing
49/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCY HIGH SCHOOL: $183,000 · OtherMERCY HIGH SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT HS: $162,200 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT JESUIT HSIndividual grant recipient: $95,000 · OtherMONASTERY OF THE BLESSED SACRA: $89,000 · Other+133 more: $2,072,633 · Other+133 morePOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $460,000 · Human ServicesPOPE FRANCIS CENTERANGELS' PLACE: $170,000 · Human ServicesANGELS' PLACEMI WORK MATTERS: $120,000 · Human ServicesMI WORK MATTERSSTARR COMMONWEALTH: $62,000 · Human ServicesSTARR COMMONWEALTH+8 more: $164,000 · Human Services+8 moreTHE GUIDANCE CENTER: $40,000 · HealthCovenant Community Care Inc: $24,000 · HealthMARINERS INN: $23,000 · HealthMother and Unborn Baby Care Inc: $21,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $11,000 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $5,000 · HealthGUEST HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Health+5 more: $8,000 · HealthCARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC: $62,500 · Food & NutritionST LEOS SOUP KITCHEN: $18,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $3,000 · Food & NutritionBRILLIANT DETROIT: $42,000 · Youth DevelopmentSAMARITAN CENTER INC: $26,000 · Community ImprovementST MARY - ST PAUL MINISTRY: $8,000 · Community ImprovementST CHRISTINE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $32,000 · Religion+1 more: $1,000 · Religion
Other$2,601,833Human Services$976,000Health$137,000Food & Nutrition$88,500Youth Development$42,000Community Improvement$34,000Religion$33,000

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 budgetPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $460,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetANGELS' PLACE: $170,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMI WORK MATTERS: $120,000 over 7y, 59% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $75,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVISTA MARIA: $65,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC: $62,500 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetSTARR COMMONWEALTH: $62,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCABRINI CLINIC: $50,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $42,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GUIDANCE CENTER: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST CHRISTINE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $32,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetVETS RETURNING HOME INC: $31,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBETTER WAY DETROIT: $30,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetTURNING POINT INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN CENTER INC: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSANCTUM HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMARY'S MANTLE: $25,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCovenant Community Care Inc: $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARINERS INN: $23,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMother and Unborn Baby Care Inc: $21,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetFOCUSHOPE: $21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LEOS SOUP KITCHEN: $18,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetMethodist Children's Home Society: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET DREAMZZZ INC: $16,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRACQUET UP DETROIT: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE MERIT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAY DETROIT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY - ST PAUL MINISTRY: $8,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOTS: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUEST HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $3,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY CROSS SERVICES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIBRARIES WITHOUT BORDERS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRO MULTICULTURAL LA FAMILIA INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUDAN RELIEF FUND INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 FoundationUnited Way for Southe…Catholic Foundation o…The Kresge FoundationCharles Stewart Mott …Children's Hospital o…Michigan Health Endow…Ford PhilanthropyMyrtle E & Wm G Hess …Thomas and Carol Crac…The Jewish Fund
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI43.6× affinity21 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 · 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

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 John D & Jean E Dinan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John D & Jean E Dinan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report 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 171 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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