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· Private foundation

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 you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

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

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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

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.

show:

Your 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. Your 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

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

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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.

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +147% since the first grant, against +73% for the ones you 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 ServicesHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • 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
  • SA
    Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +73%

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.

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.

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.…

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…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc and 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 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 20172025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 & DisasterAmerican Heart Association Inc — $50 · HealthLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc — $50 · Environment
Other$215,993Education$3,500Human Services$2,250Public Benefit$1,700Animals$800Public Safety & Disaster$100Health$50Environment$50

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetSigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT DOG RESCUE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $100 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 budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ANGELS' PLACE
  • Who funds DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds MACKINAC CENTER
  • Who funds MICHIGAN CONSERVATIVE COALITION
  • Who funds Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation
  • Who funds DETROIT DOG RESCUE
  • Who funds Wreaths Across America
  • Who funds DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
  • Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds STANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy 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.

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

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 Linda Petro Ulrey & Laurence a Ulr Ulrey 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 · 00%0%1%3%5%your 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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