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McGregor Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

McGregor Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14M
Granted FY2025still arriving
141
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$650k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$8.3MYouth Development$7.1MCommunity Improvement$7.1MHuman Services$6.2MFood & Nutrition$3.9MHealth$3.6MCrime & Legal$3.1MPhilanthropy$1.9MOther$0
02FY2025 · 141 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $503k
  • $50k–250k55 grants · $5.7M
  • $250k+22 grants · $7.3M
$55,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$235M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Ruth Ellis Center$300,000
Foundation for Detroit's Future$300,000
Central United Methodist Church Community Development Corporation$300,000
ACCESS$300,000
Avalon Healing Center$300,000
United Community Housing Coalition$300,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Funders Together to End Homelessness Inc: $60k → 16%Faith in Action: $100k → 10%Michigan League for Public Policy: $50k → 9%Faith in Action: $50k → 10%Tides Center: $100k → 10%Michigan League for Public Policy: $50k → 9%Zaman International: $200k → 21%Turning Point: $350k → 10%Turning Point: $150k → 10%Turning Point: $150k → 10%Turning Point: $150k → 10%Turning Point: $90k → 10%Empowerment Plan: $125k → 21%Turning Point: $60k → 10%Empowerment Plan: $125k → 21%Empowerment Plan: $100k → 21%Empowerment Plan: $100k → 21%Empowerment Plan: $100k → 21%HOPE Hospitality & Warming Center Inc: $100k → 8%Freedom House: $250k → 21%Freedom House: $250k → 21%Urban Neighborhood Initiatives: $225k → 21%Urban Neighborhood Initiatives: $225k → 21%Freedom House: $200k → 21%Urban Neighborhood Initiatives: $175k → 21%Urban Neighborhood Initiatives: $75k → 21%Detroit Phoenix Center: $650k → 21%Detroit Phoenix Center: $300k → 21%Detroit Phoenix Center: $300k → 21%Community & Home Supports Inc: $100k → 21%Pope Francis Center: $100k → 21%Detroit Phoenix Center: $100k → 21%First Step - The Western Wayne County Project on Domestic Assault: $150k → 21%First Step - The Western Wayne County Project on Domestic Assault: $150k → 21%Community & Home Supports Inc: $325k → 21%Detroit Phoenix Center: $275k → 21%Detroit Phoenix Center: $175k → 21%Detroit Parent Network: $150k → 21%Force Detroit: $375k → 21%Homeless Action Network of Detroit: $200k → 21%FORCE Detroit: $125k → 21%ACCESS: $300k → 21%ACCESS: $300k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC & SOCIAL SERVICES (ACCESS): $300k → 21%Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services (ACCESS): $300k → 21%Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services (ACCESS): $250k → 21%Caleb's Kids: $125k → 21%Caleb's Kids: $125k → 21%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$45M · 118 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

118
78

Total granted

$45M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+8%

Still filing today

86%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +31%
  • DP
    DETROIT PHOENIX CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +373% · 47% of their budget
  • C
    COTS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • DC
    DETROIT CENTRAL CITY CMH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +30%
  • HA
    Homeless Action Network of Detroit
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -92%
  • GH
    Genesis Harbor of Opportunity Promoting Excellence Community Development Co
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
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
Detroit Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

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3
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit

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4
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
5
Connect Detroit

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.

Community Improvement
6
Michigan Enviromental Council

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

Environment
7
Diploma Equity Project

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.

Education
8
Say Detroit

Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.

Housing & Shelter
9
Community Education Commission

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.

Education
10
Detroit Jews for Justice

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

Civil Rights
11
Endeavor Detroit

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…

Community Improvement
12
Arise Detroit

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan; 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.
04the grantee network

181 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. 181 of the 234 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
178/181
Grantees still filing
107/181
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

South Oakland Shelter dba Lighthouse MI: $2,300,000 · OtherSouth Oakland Shelter dba Lighthouse MICentral United Methodist Church Community Development Corporation: $1,450,000 · OtherCentral United Methodist Church Community Deve…First Step: $1,200,000 · OtherFirst StepRUTH ELLIS CENTER: $1,402,510 · OtherRUTH ELLIS CENTERDeveloping Kingdoms in Different Stages: $1,057,000 · Other+132 more: $13,706,030 · Other+132 moreDETROIT PHOENIX CENTER: $1,913,000 · Human ServicesDETROIT PHOENIX CENTE…ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $1,522,000 · Human ServicesARAB COMMUNITY CENTER…TURNING POINT INC: $950,000 · Human ServicesTURNING POINT INCUrban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc: $750,000 · Human ServicesUrban Neighborhood In…FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT: $700,200 · Human ServicesFREEDOM HOUSE DETROITTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $569,647 · Human ServicesTHE EMPOWERMENT PLANFORCE Detroit Inc: $540,000 · Human ServicesFORCE Detroit IncCalebs Kids: $435,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY & HOME SUPPORTS INC: $425,000 · Human Services+16 more: $1,906,060 · Human Services+16 moreFOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE: $1,450,000 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR…KEEP GROWING DETROIT: $1,100,600 · Community ImprovementKEEP GROWING D…Nonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc: $580,000 · Community ImprovementNonprofit Ente…Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc: $580,000 · Community ImprovementWayne-Metropol…WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: $550,000 · Community ImprovementWAYNE STATE UN…DEVELOP DETROIT INC: $500,000 · Community ImprovementDEVELOP DETROI…Accounting Aid Society: $500,000 · Community ImprovementAccounting Aid…GENESIS HARBOR OF OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING EXCELLENCE: $425,000 · Community ImprovementGENESIS HARBOR…DETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $400,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT HISPAN…+4 more: $265,000 · Community ImprovementALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $1,944,020 · Housing & ShelterALTERNATIVES …UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION: $1,730,000 · Housing & ShelterUNITED COMMUN…COTS: $1,600,000 · Housing & ShelterCOTSCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $540,000 · Housing & ShelterCORPORATION F…+3 more: $67,680 · Housing & ShelterAVALON HEALING CENTER: $1,182,000 · HealthMARINERS INN: $1,009,500 · HealthDETROIT CENTRAL CITY CMH INC: $200,000 · HealthAMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN MI INC: $155,000 · HealthDawn Incorporated: $150,000 · HealthMETRO SOLUTIONS INC: $110,000 · Health+1 more: $5,300 · HealthDetroit Justice Center: $908,070 · Crime & LegalHAVEN INC: $740,000 · Crime & LegalMICHIGAN COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $610,100 · Crime & LegalMICHIGAN CENTER FOR YOUTH JUSTICE: $140,020 · Crime & LegalGIVE MERIT INC: $115,100 · Crime & LegalMichigan Advocacy Program: $100,000 · Crime & LegalFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $1,050,206 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $650,500 · Food & NutritionMAKE FOOD NOT WASTE: $320,000 · Food & NutritionDetroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network: $300,000 · Food & NutritionMetro Food Rescue: $150,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$21,115,540Human Services$9,710,907Community Improvement$6,350,600Housing & Shelter$5,881,700Health$2,811,800Crime & Legal$2,613,290Food & Nutrition$2,470,706

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $1,944,020 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetDETROIT PHOENIX CENTER: $1,913,000 over 5y, 47% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION: $1,730,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetCOTS: $1,600,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $1,522,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE: $1,450,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetRUTH ELLIS CENTER: $1,402,510 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetAVALON HEALING CENTER: $1,182,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetKEEP GROWING DETROIT: $1,100,600 over 5y, 18% of budgetDeveloping Kingdoms in Different Stages: $1,057,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $1,050,206 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMARINERS INN: $1,009,500 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetTURNING POINT INC: $950,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetDetroit Justice Center: $908,070 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetUrban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc: $750,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetHAVEN INC: $740,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT: $700,200 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $650,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMICHIGAN COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $610,100 over 5y, 11% of budgetFamily Assistance for Renaissance Men: $585,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetNonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc: $580,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc: $580,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $569,647 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $552,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetRACQUET UP DETROIT: $550,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: $550,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetFORCE Detroit Inc: $540,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $540,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHERE TO HELP FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetDEVELOP DETROIT INC: $500,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetAccounting Aid Society: $500,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTHE GREENING OF DETROIT: $460,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetCalebs Kids: $435,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetGENESIS HARBOR OF OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING EXCELLENCE: $425,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetCOMMUNITY & HOME SUPPORTS INC: $425,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetDETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $400,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetINSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT: $365,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetBLACK LEADERS DETROIT: $360,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetATLANTIC IMPACT: $350,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetDETROIT FOOD & ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY: $336,600 over 4y, 10.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST SOLUTIONS INC: $322,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMAKE FOOD NOT WASTE: $320,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetHERITAGE WORKS: $316,600 over 3y, 46% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR MICHIGAN: $304,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetMICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $302,250 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDetroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network: $300,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetFirst Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault: $300,000 over 2y, 14% 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.

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 …United Way for Southe…The Skillman Foundati…DTE Energy FoundationThe Kresge FoundationThe Ralph C Wilson Jr…Hudson-Webber Foundat…WK Kellogg FoundationFord PhilanthropyMichigan Health Endow…The Fred & Barbara Er…Ethel and James Flinn…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI117× affinity77 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 McGregor Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McGregor Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
44report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 234 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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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home