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Lavins Dolores & Paul 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
74% of Lavins Dolores & Paul Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Mayo Clinic, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 15 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Lavins Dolores & Paul Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 22 organizations, $550k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k28 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE | $100,000 |
| CARMICHAELS AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| KEVIN'S SONG FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ST AMBROSE PARISH | $11,811 |
| FRIENDS OF KENYAN ORPHANS | $10,000 |
| DETROIT PUBLIC TELEVISION | $10,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE PARK FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| WRCJ 909 FM | $5,000 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $2,500 |
| EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN | $2,500 |
| DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| THE TAIMEN FUND | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2018, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DPDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA6× · 2017–2022 · $46k · revenue +49%
- GPGROSSE POINTE PARK FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +60%
- FOFRIENDS OF KENYAN ORPHANS7× · 2018–2024 · $34k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- GPGROSSE POINTE THEATRE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +67%
- HPHOLT PUBLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $3k
- AIAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCHone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -32%
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.
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.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
Creating healthy communities - together
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
Creating healthy communities - together
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.…
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.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
Helping healthcare get better. MPRO has more than 40 years of experience improving healthcare across the continuum of care using evidence-based and data-driven logic. MPRO also has extensive expertise in completing thoughtful and impartial…
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 55 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KENYAN ORPHANS ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
- Who funds THE TAIMEN FUND ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Alice Kales Hartwick Foundation · Mary I McLeod Foundation · Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation · William & Martha Ford Fund · Joanne Nicolay Foundation · Raymond M & Jane E Cracchiolo Foundation · Doris J & Donald L Duchene Foundation C/O David Findling · McGregor Fund · DTE Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lavins Dolores & Paul Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lavins Dolores & Paul Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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