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Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial at a glance

· Private foundation

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC$15,000
ST ANNES MEAD$15,000
FARMINGTON HILLS FIREFIGHTERS LOCAL$10,000
CHILDREN'S LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION$10,000
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY$10,000
LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
NEXT STEPS 2 LIFE$10,000
PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED$10,000
LADIES OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL$10,000
FORGOTTEN HARVEST$10,000
PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGES OF MICHIGAN FDN$10,000
COMMON GROUND$10,000
PEWABIC SOCIETY INC$10,000
NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES$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 (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. Its 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%TEAM GUTS: $10k → 8%LADIES OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL: $10k → 21%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%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $7k → 8%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 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%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 8%AREA AGENCY ON AGING 1-B: $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%PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGES OF MICHIGAN FDN: $10k → 8%NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $15k → 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
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +2%
  • OC
    OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +31%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG
    4× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -21%
  • M6
    MICAH 6 COMMUNITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +132%
  • DG
    DR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINICgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +32%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan; 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.
04the grantee network

85 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. 85 of the 117 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/85
Grantees still filing
59/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST ANNES MEAD: $50,000 · Other+63 more: $1,159,870 · Other+63 moreLADIES OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL OAKLAND COUNTY ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesLADIES OF CHARITY OF …Neighbor for Neighbor Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesNeighbor for Neighbor…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 ServicesARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $20,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $20,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $17,000 · Human ServicesREACHING HIGHER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesAgeWays Nonprofit Senior Services: $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 RAINBOW CONNECTION: $30,000 · HealthTHE RAINBOW CO…THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $30,000 · HealthTHE NEW DAY FO…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 · EducationACCENT PONTIAC INC: $10,000 · EducationBIRMINGHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $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 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 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 budgetLADIES OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL OAKLAND COUNTY ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetST ANNES MEAD: $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG: $50,000 over 4y, 2.1% 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 LITERACY COUNCIL: $35,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetOAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN HANDS FOOD PANTRY: $30,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING NETWORK INC: $29,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIONS VISUALLY IMPAIRED YOUTH CAMP: $25,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetJARC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGESHER HUMAN SERVICES: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOAKLAND HOPE: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Oakland County Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMON GROUND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM GUTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEXT STEPS 4 SENIORS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE PEWABIC SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetREACHING HIGHER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetMICAH 6 COMMUNITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAgeWays Nonprofit Senior Services: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 …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

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 Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial. Bigger dots raise more.

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

    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 117 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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