· Private foundation
Lynn & Paul Alandt Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
- $250k+1 grant · $263k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM | $263,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $30,000 |
| DEA SURVIVORS BENEFIT FUND | $20,000 |
| CENTER LINE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| ST PAUL ON THE LAKE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB | $10,000 |
| MASTERS FUND | $10,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| SIGMA GAMMA ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| ST JOHN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UTICA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| MICHIGAN HUMANE | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 6 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; $93k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HFHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +69%
- MSMASTERS SCHOOL7× · 2017–2023 · $115k · revenue +60%
- URURBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +463%
Funded once
- SFSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $69k · revenue +55%
- BYBAYVIEW YACHT CLUB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -86%
- HFHENRY FORD MACOMB HOSPITAL CORPORATIONone grant, 2019 · $43k · revenue +11%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart of detroit.
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.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
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.
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 hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
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.…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The purpose of the club is to encourage sailing, angling and boating and to provide recreational, educational and social activities for its members and their families and guests.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Club and the most unlike its peers is Grosse Pointe Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
37 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 75 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds MASTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds URBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RACING FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION SURVIVOR ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CENTER LINE PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SIGMA GAMMA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BAYVIEW YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD MACOMB HOSPITAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RACQUET UP DETROIT ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE SHORES IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · William & Martha Ford Fund · St Clair Charitable Trust · Raymond M & Jane E Cracchiolo Foundation · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Alice Kales Hartwick Foundation · Benson & Edith Ford Fund · Julius and Cynthia Huebner Foundation · Patrick and Christie Scoggin Family Foundation · Richard and Jane Manoogian 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 Lynn & Paul Alandt 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
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.
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