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Richard R Dossin Family Foundation at a glance

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Richard R Dossin Family 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.

$223k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$342kHuman Services$251kArts & Culture$212kEducation$34kPhilanthropy$22kReligion$17kFood & Nutrition$16kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$6,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM$50,000
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND$50,000
DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY$30,000
EVERSIGHT$20,000
DE LA SALLE COLLEGIATE$10,000
MICHIGAN UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY DBA MI-UCP$10,000
BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC$10,000
GROSSE POINTE LIONS CHARITIES INC$6,000
I CARE OF MICHIGAN$6,000
LOVELAND INTER FAITH EFFORT INC (LIFE FOOD PANTRY)$5,000
GLORIA AND THOMAS KITCHEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$5,000
ST PETERS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH - EASTPOINTE$5,000
ST PAUL ON THE LAKE CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
GROSSE POINTE LIONS CHARITIES INC$5,000
MCLAREN MACOMB$2,000
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 (FY19–25, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50k → 8%LOVELAND INTER FAITH EFFORT INC (LIFE FOOD PANTRY): $5k → 9%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $50k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$821k · 13 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$821k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+17%

Still filing today

62%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitCommunity 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

  • LD
    LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND
    6× · 2019–2025 · $230k · revenue +4%
  • Detroit Historical Society
    7× · 2018–2025 · $205k · revenue +57%
  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
    4× · 2022–2025 · $145k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • MU
    MICHIGAN UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +0%
  • EE
    EVERSIGHT EYE BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • OL
    OUR LADY STAR OF THE SEA
    one grant, 2023 · $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.

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
Mclaren Greater Lansing

Mclaren health care corporation, along with its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
2
Mclaren Port Huron

Mclaren healthcare, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
3
Mclaren Northern Michigan Foundation

To receive and administer funds to support the mission of mclaren northern michigan and support programs that enhance the well-being of the community.

Health
4
Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Corporation

Henry ford health macomb hospital (hfmh) is an affiliate of henry ford health system dba henry ford health ("hf health") serving the northeastern metropolitan detroit michigan communities. as an integrated component of one of the nation's…

Health
5
Northern Michigan Hematology and Oncology

Provide professional services for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and infectious disease and related conditions.

Health
6
Mymichigan Health Foundation

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…

Health
7
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
8
Mclaren Northern Michigan

Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
9
The Cardiac Institute

Our mission is to help people to live longer, healthier lives with dignity, and to use all of our resources to give them everything they expect and deserve in comprehensive cardiovascular care for their families and themselves.

Health
10
Trinity Health - Michigan

We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.

Health
11
Henry Ford Health Genesys Hospital

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…

Health
12
Mclaren Bay Region

Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Karmanos Cancer Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Loveland Inter Faith Effort Inc Life Food Pantry. 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

17 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. 17 of the 31 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $230,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesEversight: $75,000 · OtherEversightDE LA SALLE COLLEGIATE: $34,000 · OtherDE LA SALLE COLLEGIATEREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $23,500 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY O…GROSSE POINTE LIONS CHARITIES INC: $22,000 · OtherGROSSE POINTE LIONS CHARITI…UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - ALS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE PRANGER ALS CLINIC: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - AL…MICHIGAN UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY DBA MI-UCP: $10,000 · OtherEVERSIGHT EYE BANK: $8,000 · Other+9 more: $30,750 · Other+9 moreHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $145,000 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEMMICHIGAN UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $25,000 · HealthMICHIGAN UNITED CEREBRAL P…KARMANOS CANCER FOUNDATION: $21,000 · HealthKARMANOS CANCER FOUNDATIONGLORIA AND THOMAS R KITCHEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 · Health+3 more: $4,000 · HealthDetroit Historical Society: $205,000 · Arts & CultureDetroit Historical Societ…I CARE OF MICHIGAN: $23,000 · Housing & ShelterGROSSE POINTE SHORES IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentBELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY: $4,500 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $500 · Public Benefit
Human Services$235,000Other$223,250Health$215,500Arts & Culture$205,000Housing & Shelter$23,000Environment$5,000Community Improvement$4,500Public Benefit$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $230,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDetroit Historical Society: $205,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $145,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEversight: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetI CARE OF MICHIGAN: $23,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetKARMANOS CANCER FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetGLORIA AND THOMAS R KITCHEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVELAND INTER FAITH EFFORT INC LIFE FOOD PANTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGROSSE POINTE SHORES IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMCLAREN MACOMB: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACOMB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds Eversight ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ↗
  • Who funds I CARE OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds KARMANOS CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GLORIA AND THOMAS R KITCHEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds LOVELAND INTER FAITH EFFORT INC LIFE FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds GROSSE POINTE SHORES IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds MCLAREN MACOMB ↗
  • Who funds MACOMB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds WAYNE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Lynn & Paul Alandt Fo…Community Foundation …Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Lynn & Paul Alandt FoundationMI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lynn & Paul Alandt Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Richard R Dossin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard R Dossin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Richard R Dossin Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Richard R Dossin Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 31 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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