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Metro Health Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$280k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$794kEducation$196kHuman Services$162kHousing & Shelter$118kPhilanthropy$94kRecreation & Sports$76kCrime & Legal$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY$50,000
MICHIGAN PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION$50,000
PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGES OF MICHIGAN$50,000
LINC UP NONPROFIT HOUSING CORP$50,000
MICHIGAN ADVOCACY PROGRAM$30,000
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY$14,718
CAMP FIRE SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN$10,000
FREE CLINICS OF MICHIGAN$10,000
BALDWIN CENTER INC$10,000
COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS$2,350
STREET OUTREACH TEAMS$2,116
Individual grant recipient$830
MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY$250
MALTA DENTAL AND MEDICAL CENTER$220
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 (FY20–24, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $250 → 9%NONPROFIT NETWORK: $35 → 13%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $250 → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $250 → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $250 → 9%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $250 → 9%ST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 21%BALDWIN CENTER INC: $10k → 8%BRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC: $10k → 21%BALDWIN CENTER: $4k → 8%BRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC: $10k → 21%PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGES OF MICHIGAN: $50k → 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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 17% of Metro Health Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 84%.

Metro Health Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$875k · 26 repeat orgs$768k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
30

Total granted

$875k
$531k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+8%

Still filing today

73%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $237k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • RUTH ELLIS CENTER
    3× · 2021–2023 · $76k · revenue +51%
  • CM
    CENTRO MULTICULTURAL LA FAMILIA INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $76k · revenue +70%
  • MA
    Michigan Advocacy Program
    3× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • GC
    GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +22%
  • MH
    MICHIGAN HEALTH ENDOWMENT FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +14%
  • HU
    Health Unit on Davison Avenue
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +16%
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
Midmichigan Health Services

To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.

Health
2
Center for Family Health

The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.

Health
3
Great Lakes Bay Health Centers

To provide high quality health care to individuals and community groups in Saginaw, Bay, and other nearby counties. Services are provided without regard to race, beliefs or ability to pay.

Health
4
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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5
Michigan Health Council

The mission of the michigan health council is to facilitate the education, recruitment and retention of a diverse healthcare workforce by maximizing technology and partnerships.

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6
Michigan Center for Clinical Systems Improvement

The organization's mission is to support community-based, stakeholder driven training for care teams including physicians, care managers, care coordinators, medical assistants and behavioral health specialists; facilitate training and…

Health
7
Michigan Pharmacists Association

To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.

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8
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
9
Northwest Michigan Health Services Inc

To provide quality medical and dental primary care services to persons of all ages in northwest michigan regardless of ability to pay.

Health
10
Mgh Family Health Center Muskegon Family Care

Muskegon family care is a federally qualified health center with medical and dental clinics reaching out to uninsured and underinsured patients in muskegon county.

Health
11
InterCare Community Health Network

To promote the provision of high quality, comprehensive, and affordable health care that is coordinated, culturally and linguistically competent, and community directed for all medically underserved populations.

Health
12
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Health Endowment Fund; the most unlike its peers is National Association of Social Workers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 66 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
30/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION: $55,000 · HealthMICHIGAN PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATIONFERNCARE FREE CLINIC INC: $53,699 · HealthFERNCARE FREE CLINIC INCMICHIGAN HEALTH ENDOWMENT FUND: $50,000 · HealthMICHIGAN HEALTH ENDOWMENT FUNDHealth Unit on Davison Avenue: $50,000 · HealthHealth Unit on Davison AvenueCovenant Community Care Inc: $50,000 · HealthCovenant Community Care IncHEALTH EMERGENCY LIFELINE PROGRAMS: $50,000 · HealthHEALTH EMERGENCY LIFELINE PROGRAM…MyCare Health Center: $49,005 · HealthMyCare Health CenterDAMES AND KNIGHTS OF THE ORDER OF MALTA MEDICAL AND DENTAL CLINIC OF: $40,000 · HealthDAMES AND KNIGHTS OF THE ORDER OF…Oakland Integrated Healthcare Network: $30,000 · HealthOakland Integrated Healthcare Net…C-ASSIST: $25,000 · HealthCENTER FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH & TRANSFORMATION: $20,000 · Health+4 more: $22,180 · HealthTHE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ON BEHALF OF UNIVERSITY OF MICHIG: $62,500 · OtherTHE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ON B…NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION: $50,500 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATIONMICHIGAN PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · OtherMICHIGAN PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATIONHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $41,550 · OtherHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INCWAYNE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE ACCESS PROGR AM INC: $40,000 · OtherWAYNE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE ACCESS PROGR AM IN…MACOMB INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS: $36,000 · OtherDETROIT WAYNE COUNTY HEALTH AUTHORITY: $29,000 · OtherWAYNE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE ACCESS PROGRAM INC (WCHAP): $25,000 · OtherFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $50,000 · OtherFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INCMichigan Advocacy Program: $60,000 · OtherMichigan Advocacy ProgramWORLD MEDICAL RELIEF INCORPORATED: $37,500 · OtherWORLD MEDICAL RELIEF INCORPORATEDMICHIGAN COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER ALLIANCE: $28,700 · OtherPONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Other+23 more: $155,635 · Other+23 moreCENTRO MULTICULTURAL LA FAMILIA INC: $76,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRO MU…GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $50,000 · Arts & CultureGILDA'S C…DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT P…DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationMACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $46,576 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $12,000 · EducationPresbyterian Villages of Michigan: $50,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE BALDWIN CENTER INC: $14,000 · Human Services+3 more: $1,785 · Human ServicesRUTH ELLIS CENTER: $76,000 · Recreation & SportsLINC UP NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$494,884Other$691,385Arts & Culture$136,000Education$108,576Human Services$85,785Recreation & Sports$76,000Housing & Shelter$75,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRUTH ELLIS CENTER: $76,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCENTRO MULTICULTURAL LA FAMILIA INC: $76,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMichigan Advocacy Program: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFERNCARE FREE CLINIC INC: $53,699 over 5y, 17% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION: $50,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMICHIGAN HEALTH ENDOWMENT FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHealth Unit on Davison Avenue: $50,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetCovenant Community Care Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTH EMERGENCY LIFELINE PROGRAMS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPresbyterian Villages of Michigan: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLINC UP NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMyCare Health Center: $49,005 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $46,576 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $41,550 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWAYNE CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE ACCESS PROGR AM INC: $40,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetDAMES AND KNIGHTS OF THE ORDER OF MALTA MEDICAL AND DENTAL CLINIC OF: $40,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetWORLD MEDICAL RELIEF INCORPORATED: $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOakland Integrated Healthcare Network: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER ALLIANCE: $28,700 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetPONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetC-ASSIST: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH & TRANSFORMATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BALDWIN CENTER INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER INC & AFFILIATE: $13,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP FIRE SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $5,814 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGRANTMAKERS IN HEALTH: $5,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTREET OUTREACH TEAMS: $2,116 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMICHIGAN NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: $1,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER DETROIT HEALTH TRANSITION COMPANY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGENESIS HARBOR OF OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING EXCELLENCE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS: $412 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOAH PROJECT: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNONPROFIT NETWORK: $35 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.

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…Michigan Health Endow…The Kresge FoundationThe Jewish FundDmc FoundationMcGregor FundThe Carls FoundationDTE Energy FoundationDelta Dental FundWK Kellogg FoundationChildren's Hospital o…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI49.3× affinity24 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 · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Kresge Foundation · The Jewish Fund · Dmc Foundation · McGregor Fund · The Carls Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Delta Dental Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan 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 Metro Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Metro Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Metro Health Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Metro Health Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 66 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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