· Public charity
Rehmann Foundation
The organization's primary focus is to collect donations then distribute grants to support charitable causes within its three pillars of focus: advancing education, propelling economic development, and strengthening communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $95,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $100,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| AFFINITY MENTORING | $15,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA | $15,000 |
| NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC | $10,000 |
| DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| IDIGNITY INC | $10,000 |
| WINNING FUTURES | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +93% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 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, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- GRGRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +96%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN INC2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +93%
- DBDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- JIJEFF INDUSTRIES INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -8%
- NCNIA CENTREone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -59%
- PAPuertas Abiertas Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +57%
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.
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.…
Local circles offers young detroiters an employment opportunity in youth- led research. by employing youth to do research, local circles intervenes on two simultaneous social issues facing young detroiters today: youth unemployment and…
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.…
Provides work activity for the mentally and physically disabled.
Reading works is dedicated to raising the level of adult literacy in metro detroit and promoting the idea that readng works in the family and in the workplace.
Helping families and neighborhoods succeed by providing a place and support to assure kids ages 0-5 are school ready and families are healthy and stable.
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…
To strengthen resiliency in people and their communities through prevention, education, and services that improve the quality of life
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.
To enable african americans and people in need to reach their full human potential
Through a spectrum of programming for adults and high school students, lt offers individuals the opportunity to become more confident leaders, connect with the community, grow stronger in self-awareness, and serve in ways that are…
We champion the potential of every person to succeed in a rewarding career, while working to create an equitable and inclusive workforce for tomorrow. we do this by providing skill development for in demand jobs, comprehensive supports,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Against Poverty Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jeff Industries 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 21 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
26 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. 26 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 GRAND RAPIDS NEHEMIAH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AFFINITY MENTORING ↗
- Who funds JEFF INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NIA CENTRE ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Puertas Abiertas Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SUCCESS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF DELRAY BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds GROWTH WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds LAWN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds IDIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WINNING FUTURES ↗
- Who funds WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD LEARNING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSN IN IRC INC ↗
- Who funds TUTORSMART ↗
- Who funds LIFE REMODELED ↗
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: Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Consumers Energy Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · The Kresge 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 Rehmann 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Idignity Inc — 6% 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.
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