· Private foundation
Pathways Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WE SHALL READ | $300,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ACADIA | $250,000 |
| GIRLS GROUP | $250,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $250,000 |
| KEEP GROWING DETROIT | $150,000 |
| BRILLIANT DETROIT | $150,000 |
| DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM | $150,000 |
| ACLU OF MICHIGAN | $125,000 |
| COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES | $120,000 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $100,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OAKLAND COUNTY | $100,000 |
| BLACK LEADERS DETROIT | $100,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GLOBAL | $75,000 |
| MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM | $75,000 |
| VISTA MARIA | $70,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $440k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k 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
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +2%- WSWE SHALL READ4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +148% · 91% of their budget
GIRLS GROUP5× · 2020–2024 · $875k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- FOFriends of Acadiaone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
VISTA MARIAone grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue 0%- OMON MY OWN OF MICHIGANone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -11%
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.
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.
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…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
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.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
The organization works with k-12, higher education and other community partners to design and implement programs to improve rates of college persistence and completion.
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…
To retain and attract young leaders from across the nation to the region who have the courage, passion, and drive to make a difference, and to provide them with the opportunity to collaborate and lend their intellectual capital to…
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
To be a champion for parents of children in the community.
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
Friends of the children - detroit has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keep Growing Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Imagine Los Angeles Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 27 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 FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds WE SHALL READ ↗
- Who funds GIRLS GROUP ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds KEEP GROWING DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Big Green ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES ↗
- Who funds BLACK LEADERS DETROIT ↗
- Who funds DETROIT FOOD & ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BASBLUE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds DETROIT HORSE POWER ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds ON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Imagine Los Angeles Inc ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE THEATRE INC ↗
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 · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Skillman Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Dte Energy Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Kresge Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · McGregor Fund · Flagstar Foundation Inc · United Jewish Foundation · Comerica Charitable 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 Pathways 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.