· Private foundation
Rochelle Rosenthal Forester and Randolph L Forester 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIA | $8,100 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $5,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GLEANERS | $5,000 |
| CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $4,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OAKLAND COUNTY | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $3,000 |
| CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY | $2,800 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| COTS | $2,500 |
| HAVEN | $2,500 |
| EDESIA NUTRITION | $2,080 |
| GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HIHAVEN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +42%
- CCCASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +59%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- DFDPS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $20k
- P2PROXIMITY 2 HUMANITY CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $3k
- CHCRANBROOK HOUSE & GARDENSone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
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.…
The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
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.
The michigan humanities council connects people and communities by fostering and creating quality cultural programs
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in 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.…
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…
A voice of the building industry in Michigan. The primary purpose is to positively influence the legislative, regulatory and legal issues that affect the industry.
How this is measured
56 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. 56 of the 112 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 HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COTS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds EDESIA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND ↗
- Who funds Chicago Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Flint Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
- Who funds DMC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
- Who funds A HOLE IN THE ROOF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Litvak Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rochelle Rosenthal Forester and Randolph L Forester Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rochelle Rosenthal Forester and Randolph L Forester Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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