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Linda Petro Ulrey & Laurence a Ulr Ulrey

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$201kHealth$5kEducation$5kArts & Culture$3kHuman Services$2kRecreation & Sports$2kPublic Benefit$2kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$585k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONATION$27,000
ANGELS PLACE$2,000
COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,500
MACKINAC CENTER$500
HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH$100
WOODSIDE BIBLE CHURCH$50
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ANGELS PLACE: $2k → 8%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

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IL
MI
NY
OH
NJ
CA
VA
KS
TN
DC
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$214k · 9 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +147% since the first grant, against +73% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
28

Total granted

$214k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+147%
+73%

Still filing today

33%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • DA
    DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2023 · $2k · revenue +162%
  • MC
    MACKINAC CENTER
    3× · 2018–2025 · $800 · revenue +64%
  • PF
    PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200 · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • CS
    CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN
    one grant, 2017 · $650
  • MC
    MICHIGAN CONSERVATIVE COALITION
    one grant, 2019 · $600
  • DD
    DETROIT DOG RESCUEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +138%
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
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
2
Center for a Humane Economy Inc

There are many pathways for improving the lives of animals, but encouraging corporations to embed animal protection values into their production practices, supply chains, marketing efforts and research and development activities may be the…

Animals
3
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
4
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
5
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
6
Michigan Enviromental Council

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

Environment
7
Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.

Animals
8
Coalition to Protect Michigan Resources

The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…

Environment
9
Detroit Regional Chamber

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.

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10
North Shore Animal League America Inc

Since 1944, the north shore animal league america's mission has been to save the lives of pets through adoption, rescue, education, medical care, spay/neuter and advocacy.

Animals
11
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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12
Atlantic Legal Foundation

The mission of the alf is to advance the rule of law by advocating limited and efficient government, free enterprise, individual liberty, property rights, effective education, and the use of sound science in judicial and regulatory…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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

17 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. 17 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONATION: $200,600 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE DONATION+26 more: $15,393 · Other+26 moreDETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,900 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationSigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation: $500 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationANGELS' PLACE: $2,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $250 · Human ServicesMACKINAC CENTER: $800 · Public BenefitMICHIGAN CONSERVATIVE COALITION: $600 · Public BenefitWreaths Across America: $300 · Public BenefitDETROIT DOG RESCUE: $500 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $200 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100 · AnimalsNETWORK FOR GOOD: $100 · Public Safety & DisasterLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $50 · EnvironmentAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50 · Health
Other$215,993Education$3,500Human Services$2,250Public Benefit$1,700Animals$800Public Safety & Disaster$100Environment$50Health$50

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANGELS' PLACE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,900 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT DOG RESCUE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50 over 1y, 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 ANGELS' PLACE ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN CONSERVATIVE COALITION ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT DOG RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds STANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association 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 for Southeast MichiganMI13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Linda Petro Ulrey & Laurence a Ulr Ulrey funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Linda Petro Ulrey & Laurence a Ulr Ulrey. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 42 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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