· Private foundation
McGregor Fund
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $503k
- $50k–250k55 grants · $5.7M
- $250k+22 grants · $7.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Detroit Phoenix Center | $650,000 |
| South Oakland Shelter dba Lighthouse MI | $500,000 |
| Alternatives For Girls | $425,000 |
| First Step | $400,000 |
| Force Detroit | $375,000 |
| Turning Point | $350,000 |
| Developing Kingdoms in Different Stages | $325,000 |
| Community & Home Supports Inc | $325,000 |
| Family Assistance for Renaissance Men | $300,000 |
| Foundation for Detroit's Future | $300,000 |
| Ruth Ellis Center | $300,000 |
| Detroit Phoenix Center | $300,000 |
| Avalon Healing Center | $300,000 |
| United Community Housing Coalition | $300,000 |
| Central United Methodist Church Community Development Corporation | $300,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $9.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% 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.
118 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS5× · 2021–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +31%- DPDETROIT PHOENIX CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +373% · 47% of their budget
- CCOTS5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +16%
Funded once
- DCDETROIT CENTRAL CITY CMH INCone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +22%
- HAHomeless Action Network of Detroitone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -92%
- GHGenesis Harbor of Opportunity Promoting Excellence Community Development Coone grant, 2022 · $200k
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.
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.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
To strategically solve problems through collaboratives with City of Detroit Departments, nonprofit organizations and local grant makers in order to secure the maximum federal, state, and national foundation dollars for the city Detroit.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
The organization works with k-12, higher education and other community partners to design and implement programs to improve rates of college persistence and completion.
Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.
CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.
Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors
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…
To inspire a community of active engagement, personal responsibility and hope by connecting people to opportunities and resources to transform the quality of life for all Detroiters.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Womens Centers International. 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 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
181 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. 181 of the 234 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PHOENIX CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds COTS ↗
- Who funds ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE ↗
- Who funds RUTH ELLIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds AVALON HEALING CENTER ↗
- Who funds KEEP GROWING DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Developing Kingdoms in Different Stages ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds MARINERS INN ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds Detroit Justice Center ↗
- Who funds Urban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc ↗
- Who funds HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds Family Assistance for Renaissance Men ↗
- Who funds Nonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc ↗
- Who funds Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds RACQUET UP DETROIT ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds FORCE Detroit Inc ↗
- Who funds HERE TO HELP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEVELOP DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds Accounting Aid Society ↗
- Who funds THE GREENING OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Calebs Kids ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY & HOME SUPPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS HARBOR OF OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT ↗
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 · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Skillman Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Hudson-Webber Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Ethel and James Flinn 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 McGregor Fund 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Camp 45 Contemporary Converge 45 — 8% of income from government
- Portland Institute for Contemporary Art — 5% of income from government
- Chamber Music Northwest — 3% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% 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.