· Private foundation
Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $333k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $383k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION | $133,000 |
| THE WHITE BARN PROJECT | $100,000 |
| MACKINAC STRAITS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC INDIAN RIVER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $48,735 |
| ANTON ART CENTER | $35,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY SCHOOL OF LAW | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN NEURONETWORK FOR EMERGING THERAPIES | $25,000 |
| MASAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT | $25,000 |
| AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN | $25,000 |
| MICHIGAN HUMANE | $23,500 |
| MICHIGAN HOME FOR THE ARMENIAN AGE INC | $20,650 |
| JT MESTDAGH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CITIZENS RESEARCH COUNCIL | $15,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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 +14% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k 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
- URURBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +188%
- WBWHITE BARN PROJECT5× · 2021–2025 · $760k · revenue +130% · 100% of their budget
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS5× · 2021–2025 · $663k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- URUrban Renewal Initiative Foundation c/o Schaap Centerone grant, 2021 · $515k
- THTHE HENRY FORDone grant, 2024 · $125k
- MMOCADone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
The organization is dedicated to preservation of michigan great lakes and waterways, maritime history and culture, and provides maritime education opportunities to the public through permanent and changing exhibits, research library, and…
The chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
Preserving the history of our area brings an understanding to the past and present, and provides a guide for the future. we not only maintain exhibits, artifacts and a research library, we provide a forum for engaging the community and…
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
To advance the field of health for the public good.
Be and create stewards for the water environment of michigan. provide high quality education for michigan's water professionals. educate and inform policy makers and the general public. promote scientifically sound environmental practices…
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the most unlike its peers is White Barn Project. 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.
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 31 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 107 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 URBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITE BARN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC STRAITS HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SONOMA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HOME FOR THE ARMENIAN AGED ↗
- Who funds FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WAWASHKAMO GOLF CLUB ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Junior League of Detroit ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Giant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Historical Society of Michigan ↗
- Who funds MACKINAC ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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 · Dte Energy Foundation · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · William & Martha Ford Fund · Hudson-Webber Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The George G Fund · Edsel & Eleanor Ford House · The Skillman Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Lynn & Paul Alandt 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 Richard and Jane Manoogian 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.
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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