· Private foundation
Liebler Family 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 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $33,588 |
| DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LEVIN CENTER FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| THE ART LEAGUE | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL YAGYA PROGRAM | $3,000 |
| DETROIT OPERA | $3,000 |
| DETROIT PUBLIC TELEVISION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| LEELANAU CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| DIA | $1,500 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| SUN MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JOHN PAUL | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART | $700 |
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 (FY24–24, $50) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 12 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 MEDIA8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +49%
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS3× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +46%- EMEASTERN MARKET CORPORATION2× · 2018–2019 · $800 · revenue +41%
Funded once
- TLTHE LEVIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $4k
DETROIT PUBLIC THEATREgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +35%
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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.
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.
The mission of the michigan state university college of law is to provide a rigorous educational program which prepares a diverse community of students to be national and international leaders in private legal practice, business and…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 70 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 DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
- Who funds DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds SUN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CABARET 313 INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH MANITOU LIGHT KEEPERS INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MARKET CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GESHER HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
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: The Kresge Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Hudson-Webber Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · DTE Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Liebler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Liebler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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