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Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$325k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$594kHealth$546kEducation$228kFood & Nutrition$200kArts & Culture$186kHousing & Shelter$143kRecreation & Sports$70kYouth Development$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $260k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST ANNES MEAD$15,000
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC$15,000
LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
THE BALDWIN CENTER$10,000
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY$10,000
THE ZEKELMAN HOLOCAUST CENTER$10,000
COMMON GROUND$10,000
LADIES OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL$10,000
PEWABIC SOCIETY INC$10,000
NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES$10,000
OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY$10,000
FORGOTTEN HARVEST$10,000
NEXT STEPS 2 LIFE$10,000
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $438k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WAVE PROJECT: $5k → 10%REACHING HIGHER INC: $10k → 5%REACHING HIGHER INC: $5k → 5%OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $10k → 8%LADIES OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL: $15k → 21%LADIES OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL: $15k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 21%LADIES OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL: $10k → 21%TEAM GUTS: $10k → 8%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 21%LADIES OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL: $10k → 21%TEAM GUTS: $10k → 8%Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan: $20k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $7k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%CAMP CASEY: $15k → 8%CAMP CASEY: $15k → 8%Stand with Trans: $5k → 8%HOUSE OF HOPE MINISTRY INC: $5k → 8%JARC: $15k → 8%JARC: $10k → 8%OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 8%OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 8%CAMP CASEY: $10k → 8%OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 8%THE BALDWIN CENTER: $10k → 8%AREA AGENCY ON AGING 1-B: $10k → 8%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 8%AREA AGENCY ON AGING 1-B: $5k → 8%JUDSON CENTER INC: $20k → 8%JUDSON CENTER INC: $15k → 8%JUDSON CENTER INC: $10k → 8%SOCIETY OF ACTIVE RETIREES: $1k → 8%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $15k → 8%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $15k → 8%PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGES OF MICHIGAN FDN: $10k → 8%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $10k → 8%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 62 repeat orgs$484k to everyone else

62 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
44

Total granted

$1.8M
$409k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+32%

Still filing today

76%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther

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 INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +2%
  • OC
    OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +31%
  • SA
    ST ANNES MEAD
    4× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -21%
  • DG
    DR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINICgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +32%
  • M6
    MICAH 6 COMMUNITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +132%

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.

1
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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2
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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3
Arc Michigan

Arc michigan empowers local chapters to assure that citizens with disabilites and their families participate fully in and contribute to the life of their community.

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4
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
5
Michigan Christian Home

The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…

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6
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

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7
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
8
Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society

To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.

Animals
9
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
10
Elder Law of Michigan

To advocate for, educate, and assist our target populations. our services address the needs of many different people, but we continue to target our services to older adults and persons with disabilities.

Human Services
11
Michigan Pharmacists Association

To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.

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12
Area Agency On Aging of Western Michigan Inc

Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Troy Cooperative Preschool. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Arts Education & Perf…Disability & Senior Support…Family Philanthropic Founda…Faith-Based Schools and Cen…Diverse Mission NonprofitsJewish Community Organizati…Michigan Advocacy & Communi…Child Healing & Support Ser…Animal Rescue and WelfareCommunity Support Services
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 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%4%<5yr15%8%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr12%37%35–55yr13%24%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/93
the rest of the field
17%
2,882/16,515

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

85 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. 85 of the 117 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/85
Grantees still filing
57/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST ANNES MEAD — $50,000 · Other+63 more — $1,159,870 · Other+63 moreNeighbor for Neighbor Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesNeighbor for Neighbor…LADIES OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL OAKLAND COUNTY ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesLADIES OF CHARITY OF …JUDSON CENTER INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesJUDSON CENTER INCCAMP CASEY CORPORATION — $40,000 · Human ServicesCAMP CASEY CORPORATIO…OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES — $35,000 · Human ServicesOAKLAND FAMILY SERVIC…OPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY — $30,000 · Human ServicesOPEN HANDS FOOD PANTR…JARC — $25,000 · Human ServicesJARCTEAM GUTS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT — $20,000 · Human ServicesARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S — $20,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $17,000 · Human ServicesAgeWays Nonprofit Senior Services — $15,000 · Human ServicesREACHING HIGHER INC — $15,000 · Human Services+9 more — $66,000 · Human Services+9 moreALS OF MICHIGAN INC — $67,500 · HealthALS OF MICHIGA…KIDS KICKING CANCER INC — $43,000 · HealthKIDS KICKING C…ON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN — $40,000 · HealthON MY OWN OF M…THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES — $30,000 · HealthTHE NEW DAY FO…THE RAINBOW CONNECTION — $30,000 · HealthTHE RAINBOW CO…COMMON GROUND — $20,000 · HealthCOMMON GROUNDDR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC — $15,000 · Health+6 more — $59,000 · Health+6 moreFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $60,000 · Food & NutritionOAKLAND HOPE — $25,000 · Food & NutritionMetro Food Rescue — $10,000 · Food & NutritionCARES OF FARMINGTON HILLS INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG — $50,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC — $29,000 · Community ImprovementMICAH 6 COMMUNITY — $15,000 · Community ImprovementAnchoRRa — $10,000 · Community ImprovementHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PEWABIC SOCIETY INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCHAMBER MUSIC DETROIT — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $51,000 · EducationKettering University — $11,174 · EducationBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationACCENT PONTIAC INC — $10,000 · EducationLITERATURE CIRCLE SOCIETY — $5,000 · Education
Other$1,209,870Human Services$448,000Health$304,500Food & Nutrition$105,000Community Improvement$104,000Arts & Culture$95,000Education$87,174

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALS OF MICHIGAN INC — $67,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $51,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetST ANNES MEAD — $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG — $50,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetLADIES OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL OAKLAND COUNTY ASSOCIATION — $50,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetJUDSON CENTER INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS KICKING CANCER INC — $43,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCAMP CASEY CORPORATION — $40,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN — $40,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCHALDEAN AMERICAN LADIES OF CHARITY — $39,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF OAKLAND COUNTY — $37,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC — $37,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOAKLAND LITERACY COUNCIL — $35,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetEversight — $34,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION — $32,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST INC — $32,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY — $30,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES — $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC — $29,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOAKLAND HOPE — $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLIONS VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH CAMP — $25,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Oakland County Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJARC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGESHER HUMAN SERVICES — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTEAM GUTS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON GROUND — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEWABIC SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEXT STEPS 4 SENIORS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMEADOWBROOK CENTER FOR LEARNING DIFFERENCES — $19,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAgeWays Nonprofit Senior Services — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREACHING HIGHER INC — $15,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetDR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMICAH 6 COMMUNITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

Community Foundation …United Way for Southe…Dte Energy FoundationHelen L Kay Charitabl…The Carls FoundationThe Village Club Foun…Deroy Testamentary Fo…Canton Community Foun…The Kresge FoundationMichigan Health Endow…Eagles for ChildrenConsumers Energy Foun…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI77.4× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Helen L Kay Charitable Trust · The Carls Foundation · The Village Club Foundation · Deroy Testamentary Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Eagles for Children · Consumers Energy 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 Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your 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
    22report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 117 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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