· Private foundation
Richard C Devereaux 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $200,000 |
| KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $75,000 |
| DETROIT PUBLIC TELEVISION | $40,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Northwestern University4× · 2017–2023 · $450k · revenue +41%- DZDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY3× · 2018–2023 · $430k · revenue +37%
- DPDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA8× · 2017–2025 · $375k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $80k
- PVPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -20%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 24 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 DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn ↗
- Who funds KARMANOS CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Michigan Inc ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard C Devereaux Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard C Devereaux Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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