How much did OTHERS FIRST INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of OTHERS FIRST INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $23k
$10k–50k22 grants · $398k
$50k–250k3 grants · $211k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION$85,000
GRANTS SUPPORT LESS THAN 5000$65,500
MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$60,000
VALUE CENTER WATERFORD$44,880
TUNNEL OF TOWERS$37,500
BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION$26,000
BREAKLOOSE$25,000
MILITARY ORDER OF PURPLE HEART CO$25,000
ANTHONY ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION$25,000
WARRIOR RISING$25,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$20,000
DETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION$20,000
MILITARY ORDER OF PURPLE HEART CO$15,000
DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOU$15,000
WOUNDED WARRIORS$15,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $664k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.2M · 116 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

116 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 98 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116

146

Total granted

$6.2M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+46%

Still filing today

68%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationPublic BenefitAnimalsOther

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

TUNNEL TO TOWER FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $788k · revenue +2884%
NK
National Kidney Foundation
6× · 2017–2024 · $326k · revenue +18%
NK
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF MICH
3× · 2020–2022 · $215k · revenue +114%

Funded once

FH
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +32%
AH
American Homeless Veterans
one grant, 2017 · $30k
LL
Lady Like Foundation
one grant, 2017 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Homes for Heroes Foundation

Housing & Shelter

Paralyzed Veterans of America -

We strive to improve the quality of life of honorably discharged veterans who have spinal cord injury, dysfunction or illness, including but not limited to ms and als, through programs described in sch o.

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Michigan Veterans Foundations Inc

Provides at risk, and homeless veterans with temporary housing and supportive services, e.g., medical, vocational, psychological, and educational training to regain or improve their status in society.

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Hope4vets

Housing & Shelter

Support Our Soldiers

Provide financial support for veterans.

Human Services

Detroit Chapter 9 of Vietnam

Detroit chapter of vietnam veterans of america, inc. organization provides community support and financial assistance to veterans and other charities who support veterans.

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Guide Soldier Foundation

To help soldiers and veterans find hope to curb the suicide crises.

Public Benefit

American Soldier

To give assistance to discharged military veterans and their families.

Human Services

Operation Adopt a Soldier

Helping wounded soldiers

Public Benefit

Home for Veterans Network Launch

Public Benefit

Leashes of Valor

Leashes of valor is a national nonprofit that provides highly-trained service dogs to post-9/11 veterans to help with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi) or military sexual trauma (mst), an…

Public Benefit

Wounded Heroes of America

Recognize and support wounded veterans from operation iraqi freedom (oif) iraq , and operation enduring freedom (oef).

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Convoy of Hope. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%8/233

the rest of the field

11%

206,160/1,819,332

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.

04the grantee network

163 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

153/163

Grantees still filing

119/163

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,870,152Education$1,211,700Health$924,200Human Services$829,000Public Benefit$386,200Philanthropy$307,500Religion$242,500

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.

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.

United Way for Southeastern MichiganMI45.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast · Dte Energy Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan · Detroit Auto Dealers Association · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Aa Van Elslander 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 organisation OTHERS FIRST 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.

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8get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FONOC Veterans Treatment Court.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 465645497 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FONOC Veterans Treatment Court, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 46% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Others First Inc?

Find your warmest path to Others First Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

OTHERS FIRST INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

163 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Others First Inc?

More from the funding graph

OTHERS FIRST INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

163 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Others First Inc?

More from the funding graph