· Public charity
Motown Soup Inc
Produce soup mixes and other items (27,976 annual volunteer hours) to be sold with profits being given to 501(c)(3) organizations which focus on serving thousands of homeless, distressed, and underprivileged.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $114,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $204,780 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $90,780 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH FOOD MINI | $24,000 |
| DETROIT RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| MCREST | $11,000 |
| MANNA FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FOOD BANK | $9,000 |
| MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION | $8,000 |
| KID'S FOOD BASKET | $8,000 |
| WAVE PROJECT | $6,500 |
| HIDDEN HARVEST | $6,500 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $5,500 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK | $5,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- MCMACOMB COUNTY ROTATING EMERGENCY SHELTER TEAM8× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +92%
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC8× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +16%
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC8× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- RIREDFORD INTERFAITH RELIEFone grant, 2018 · $15k
GRACE CENTERS OF HOPEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +94%- QIQTMC INCone grant, 2022 · $6k
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.
Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.
The mission of metro food rescue is simple; waste less, feed more. we rescue food that would otherwise be discarded and deliver it to a network of food partners. thereby, helping to feed individuals and families in need.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
To operate a network of food pantries to provide food to those in need.
Midland's Open Door (MOD) operates two crisis shelters, one for women and children and one for men. MOD's programs are designed to meet the immediate needs of homeless individuals by providing a safe and loving environment where each…
The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…
Food Pantry - to provide nutritious food to people in need. Also, to provide used clothing and backpacks for school children and to provide energy assistance outreach site.
The mission of the macomb food program is to provide food to hungry people in macomb county.
Friendship house meets the basic needs of low income residents of hamtramck, mi. this assistance includes food, clothing, baby supplies and school supplies.
Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time, to create a future where everyone has access to nourishing food.
Hungry for christ in hamilton, mi inspires to carry out god's good works by filling a need-in hamilton and the surrounding areas-for good food and good people to deliver it. the mission is: "for i was hungry and you gave me something to…
To provide quality nutrition services in a supportive environment to promote the health and independence of older adults.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forgotten Harvest Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
- Who funds MACOMB COUNTY ROTATING EMERGENCY SHELTER TEAM ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MOTOR CITY MITTEN MISSION ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds MID CITY NUTRITION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds WAVE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN ↗
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: Consumers Energy Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Motown Soup Inc 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.
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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