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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.

$511k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$47k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$250kCommunity Improvement$225kArts & Culture$119kPhilanthropy$104kEducation$80kHuman Services$62kYouth Development$49kCivil Rights$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $172k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $339k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$243k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATES OF DETROIT$15,000
CENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN CDC$15,000
TRUST NEIGHBORHOODS$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
MCHS FAMILY OF SERVICES$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHEAST MICHIGAN$10,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $5k → 9%SUSIE Q'S KIDS: $3k → 10%HAVEN HOMES OF DETROIT: $5k → 13%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $3k → 9%FIRST STEP THE WESTERN WAYNE COUNTY PROJECT ON DOMESTIC ASSAULT: $18k → 21%LIVING AND LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $8k → 8%LIVING AND LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $5k → 8%SAMARITAS: $14k → 21%SAMARITAS: $5k → 21%THE SENIOR ALLIANCE: $13k → 21%MCHS FAMILY OF SERVICES: $10k → 21%METHODIST CHILDRE'S HOME SOCIETY: $8k → 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.
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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$411k · 14 repeat orgs$526k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
23

Total granted

$411k
$246k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

86%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATES OF DETROIT
    2× · 2024–2025 · $82k · revenue 0%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY- NORTHEAST MICHIGAN INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $70k · revenue -3%
  • PC
    PLYMOUTH COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $61k · revenue +51% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • BD
    BRILLIANT DETROIT FBO ROOF THE BLOCK
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • DD
    DEVELOP DETROIT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue +8%
  • CE
    COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGANgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +86%
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
Habitat for Humanity of Michigan Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
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
6
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

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

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7
Community & Home Supports Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Say Detroit

Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.

Housing & Shelter
9
Detroit Food Policy Council

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 & Nutrition
10
The Greening of Detroit

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.

Environment
11
Detroit Justice Center

The Detroit Justice Center works alongside communities to create economic opportunities, transform the justice system, and promote equitable and just cities.

Crime & Legal
12
Detroit Experience Factory

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.

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

49 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. 49 of the 76 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)
48/49
Grantees still filing
17/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY- NORTHEAST MICHIGAN INC: $70,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY- NORTHEAST MICHIGAN INCPLYMOUTH COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL: $61,000 · OtherPLYMOUTH COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCILBRILLIANT DETROIT FBO ROOF THE BLOCK: $50,000 · OtherBRILLIANT DETROIT FBO ROOF THE BLOCKGENESIS HARBOR OF OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING EXCELLENCE (DBA GENESIS HOPE): $25,000 · OtherBLACK LEGACY ADVANCEMENT COALITION: $35,000 · OtherBLACK LEGACY ADVANCEMENT COALITIONCROSSROADS INDUSTRIES INC: $23,000 · Other+38 more: $265,500 · Other+38 moreCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATES OF DETROIT: $82,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY DEVELOPME…DEVELOP DETROIT INC: $23,139 · Community ImprovementDEVELOP DETROIT INCCOMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN: $20,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ECONOMIC …TRUST NEIGHBORHOODS: $15,000 · Community ImprovementTRUST NEIGHBORHOODSWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: $12,000 · Community ImprovementWAYNE STATE UNIVERS…RTTM COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 · Community ImprovementRTTM COMMUNITY CENT…360 DETROIT INC: $8,000 · Community ImprovementDetroit Future City: $8,000 · Community ImprovementOTSEGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $56,728 · PhilanthropyOTSEGO COMM…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST MICHIGAN: $36,728 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY F…OTSEGO COUNTY UNITED WAY INC: $5,500 · PhilanthropyFoundation for Excellence Walled Lake Schools: $5,000 · PhilanthropySAMARITAS: $19,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITASMethodist Children's Home Society: $18,000 · Human ServicesMethodist …First Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault: $17,500 · Human ServicesFirst Step…LIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $13,000 · Human ServicesLIVING & L…THE SENIOR ALLIANCE INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesTHE SENIOR…Womens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc: $8,000 · Human ServicesWomens Res…HAVEN HOMES OF DETROIT: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesYOUTHTANK INC: $28,000 · EducationDETROIT FOOD & ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY: $20,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationNORTHVILLE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $4,500 · EducationVENTURE INC: $18,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE REFUGE IN OTSEGO COUNTY: $10,500 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HURON VALLEY: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterGRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterPLYMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17,200 · Arts & CultureGAYLORD AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS: $10,500 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $9,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $25 · Arts & Culture
Other$529,500Community Improvement$178,139Philanthropy$103,956Human Services$95,500Education$62,500Housing & Shelter$43,500Arts & Culture$36,725

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 budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVOCATES OF DETROIT: $82,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY- NORTHEAST MICHIGAN INC: $70,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPLYMOUTH COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL: $61,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetOTSEGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $56,728 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST MICHIGAN: $36,728 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLACK LEGACY ADVANCEMENT COALITION: $35,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetYOUTHTANK INC: $28,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetDEVELOP DETROIT INC: $23,139 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCROSSROADS INDUSTRIES INC: $23,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetDETROIT FOOD & ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAMARITAS: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMethodist Children's Home Society: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault: $17,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPLYMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17,200 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetLIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HOPE CENTER FOR GRIEF SUPPORT INC: $11,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE REFUGE IN OTSEGO COUNTY: $10,500 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetGAYLORD AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS: $10,500 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetCANTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HURON VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRTTM COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget360 DETROIT INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWomens Resource Center of Northern Michigan Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetESCOT YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC: $8,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetDetroit Future City: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNOVI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetRUTH ELLIS CENTER: $6,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAVEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Excellence Walled Lake Schools: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHAVEN HOMES OF DETROIT: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHVILLE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetELK COUNTRY ANIMAL SHELTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSUSIE QS KIDS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGROWING HOPE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends In Deed: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 …Community Financial C…DTE Energy FoundationUnited Way for Southe…Consumers Energy Foun…Ford PhilanthropyThe Kresge FoundationThe Skillman Foundati…Michigan Health Endow…Margaret Dunning Foun…Canton Community Foun…Children's Hospital o…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI54.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    18report 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

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    How do I get to Orsa Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Orsa 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 76 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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