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Orsa Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of ORSA FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $172k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $339k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OTSEGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $46,728 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST MICHIGAN | $36,728 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHEAST MICHIGAN | $30,000 |
| GENESIS HARBOR OF OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING EXCELLENCE (DBA GENESIS HOPE) | $25,000 |
| VENTURE INC | $18,000 |
| PLYMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $17,200 |
| TRUST NEIGHBORHOODS | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATES OF DETROIT | $15,000 |
| CENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN CDC | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATES OF MICHIGAN | $14,500 |
| THE SENIOR ALLIANCE | $12,500 |
| TECHTOWN DETROIT | $12,000 |
| WAYNE WESTLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $11,500 |
| METRO FOOD RESCUE | $10,000 |
| BLACK EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS ALLIANCE OF DETROIT (FISCAL SPONSOR UNITED WAY FO | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 35 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k 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
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATES OF DETROIT2× · 2024–2025 · $82k · revenue 0%- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY- NORTHEAST MICHIGAN INC2× · 2024–2025 · $70k · revenue -3%
- PCPLYMOUTH COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL2× · 2024–2025 · $61k · revenue +51% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- BDBRILLIANT DETROIT FBO ROOF THE BLOCKone grant, 2024 · $50k
- DDDEVELOP DETROIT INCone grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue 0%
- CECOMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGANgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +86%
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.
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.
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.
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…
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
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.
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
Community & home supports, inc. was founded to help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we strive to fulfill our purpose by developing, leading, and participating in collaborative and innovative efforts that support…
Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.
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…
The greening of detroit's mission is the sustainable growth of a healthy urban community through trees, green spaces, healthy living, education, training and job opportunities.
The Detroit Justice Center works alongside communities to create economic opportunities, transform the justice system, and promote equitable and just cities.
Detroit Experience Factory is a leading resource for both visitors and locals to discover, experience and learn about the people, places and projects around the city of Detroit.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Otsego Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Haven Homes of Detroit. 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 26 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 76 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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATES OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY- NORTHEAST MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds OTSEGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BLACK LEGACY ADVANCEMENT COALITION ↗
- Who funds YOUTHTANK INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOP DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT FOOD & ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAS ↗
- Who funds Methodist Children's Home Society ↗
- Who funds VENTURE INC ↗
- Who funds First Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TRUST NEIGHBORHOODS ↗
- Who funds LIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SENIOR ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE CENTER FOR GRIEF SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds THE REFUGE IN OTSEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds GAYLORD AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CANTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Metro Food Rescue ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RTTM COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
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 · Community Financial Credit Union · Dte Energy Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · The Kresge Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Margaret Dunning Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Children's Hospital of Michigan 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 Orsa 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.
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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