· Private foundation
Kemp Klein Umphrey Endelman & May Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $16k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST TEE GREATER DETROIT | $50,000 |
| COMMON GROUND SANCTUARY | $6,700 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $1,500 |
| CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN | $1,500 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $1,500 |
| WATERWORKS THEATER COMPANY | $934 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $750 |
| LIGHTHOUSE MICHIGAN | $525 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $500 |
| KIMBERLY ANNE GILLARY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $250 |
| CAP & CONQUER | $150 |
| HENRY FORD GAME ON CANCER | $150 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $150 |
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 (FY17–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Kemp Klein Umphrey Endelman & May Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 7 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, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- CGCOMMON GROUND9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +141%
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +12%- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- SDSAY DETROITone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -31%
- OLOAKLAND LITERACY COUNCILgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +154%
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2017 · $1k
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 honor life through donation.
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
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.…
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To provide financial assistance to individuals and institutions for educational and scientific purposes in order to advance science to benefit the health and welfare of animals.
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Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
The organization is known as the leader in the movement and is seen as the "go to" experts on environmental justice and sustainable redevelopment because of its knowledge and its network.
Creating healthy communities - together
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Social welfare and issue advocacy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Turtle Effect Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 109 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 COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds SAY DETROIT ↗
- Who funds KIMBERLY ANNE GILLARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ILITCH CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND ↗
- Who funds CELANI FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Accounting Aid Society ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds WATER WORKS THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds TROY NATURE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Turtle Effect Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAP & CONQUER INC ↗
- Who funds Clinton County Humane Society Company ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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: Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Barton Malow Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · United Jewish Foundation · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · The Skillman Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · The Kresge Foundation · Rochelle Rosenthal Forester and Randolph L Forester Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc
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 Kemp Klein Umphrey Endelman & May 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.
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