· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GIRLS GROUP | $250,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ACADIA | $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 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OAKLAND COUNTY | $100,000 |
| BLACK LEADERS DETROIT | $100,000 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $100,000 |
| MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM | $75,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GLOBAL | $75,000 |
| VISTA MARIA | $70,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds BASBLUE INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pathways Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pathways Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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