How much did LEAR CORPORATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION grant in FY2021?

Education$2.3MCommunity Improvement$625kHuman Services$390kEnvironment$340kPhilanthropy$300kFood & Nutrition$275kYouth Development$150kArts & Culture$80kInternational$50kOther$1.9M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

detroit

2019

scholarshipdetroiteducation

2020

education

2021

education

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2021 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

$10k–50k3 grants · $75k
$50k–250k6 grants · $540k
$250k+1 grant · $500k

$89,650

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

KETTERING UNIVERSITY$500,000
CORNERSTONE EDUCATION GROUP$150,000
WINNING FUTURES$100,000
FOCUS HOPE$100,000
CHANDLER PARK CONSERVANCY$89,650
RHONDA WALKER FOUNDATION$50,000
MARY'S MANTLE$50,000
FORGOTTEN HARVEST$25,000
WAYNE COUNTY ADVOCACY AND EDUCATION SUPPORT$25,000
AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS$25,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.1M · 12 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.1M

$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

+22%

Still filing today

75%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther

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

KU
Kettering University
4× · 2018–2021 · $2.0M · revenue +37%
WF
Winning Futures
3× · 2019–2021 · $300k · revenue +50%
Forgotten Harvest
4× · 2018–2021 · $275k · revenue +32%

Funded once

DR
Detroit Riverfront Conservatory
one grant, 2019 · $500k
DC
Detroit Children's Fund
one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +9%
MM
Michigan Minority Purchasing Councilgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +43%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Detroit Opera

The mission of detroit opera is to be one of the outstanding opera companies in the unted states and, in particular, to serve as a major cultural resource to the city of detroit and the state of michigan.

Arts & Culture

Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation

Detroit employment solutions corporation (desc) is part of the michigan works! system, which is a network of 16 workforce agencies located throughout the state. this system helps residents find new jobs, retain employment, and advance…

Employment

Michigan Enviromental Council

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

Environment

Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promote economic growth in the city of detroit

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The Detroit Institute of Arts

The dia creates experiences that help each visitor find personal meaning in art.

Arts & Culture

Alumni Association of the University of Michigan

The Association is an independent worldwide organization that nurtures lifelong relationships with and among current and future Michigan alumni. As a committed partner of the University the Association offers programs of relevance and…

Education

Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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Endeavor Detroit

Endeavor Detroit is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Michigan and the wider Great Lakes region, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in the…

Community Improvement

Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan, the state's business roundtable, is dedicated to making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, education, widely shared prosperity and a healthy economy. the organization is composed exclusively of the executive…

Community Improvement

Business Leaders for Michigan

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About Face Detroit

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Michigan Community Capital

The mission of michigan community capital is to provide low-cost, flexible financial products coupled with advisory services to create and preserve affordable housing and invest in job-creating, community-driven economic development…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kettering University. 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 44 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/26

the rest of the field

15%

2,491/16,582

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.

05the grantee network

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/23

Grantees still filing

20/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$2,325,000Other$2,182,000Community Improvement$625,000Human Services$390,000Environment$339,650Philanthropy$300,000Food & Nutrition$275,000

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.

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.

Dte Energy FoundationMI34.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast · Ford Motor Company Fund · The Kresge Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · United Jewish Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Fca Foundation · Henry Ford Health System · The Carls Foundation · The Skillman Foundation

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 organisation LEAR CORPORATION CHARITABLE 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Chandler Park Conservancy.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 471538390 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Chandler Park Conservancy, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Lear Corporation Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lear Corporation Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LEAR CORPORATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lear Corporation Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph

LEAR CORPORATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lear Corporation Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph