Michigan · Public charity
Rocket Giving Fund
The ROCKET GIVING FUND's mission is to host a world-class pga tour event while simultaneously benefiting the detroit community. The organization's primary fundraising activity is the rocket classic, detroit's annual pga tour event. The net proceeds realized by the event and other such activities and events will go back to the detroit…
- $866k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 10
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Rocket Giving Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $859k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $26k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $1.6M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $54k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $982k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $2.6M | 67% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way for Southeastern Michigan | $4,226,585 | 5 | 3% |
| Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation | $627,075 | 4 | 3% |
| People for Palmer Park | $550,000 | 4 | 50% |
| Black Tech Saturdays Alexa Turnage | $350,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Midnight Golf Program | $285,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Detroit Golf Foundation | $256,852 | 5 | 57% |
| Detroit Children's Fund | $210,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Detroit Golf Club Caddie Scholarship Foundation | $192,460 | 2 | 98% |
| Detroit Police Athletic League Incorporated | $152,340 | 3 | 2% |
| Friends Ofnorthwest Activities Center Inc | $109,828 | 1 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Rocket Giving Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: DTE Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · The Kresge Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Rocket Giving Fund
- How much does Rocket Giving Fund give?
- Rocket Giving Fund reported 10 grants totaling $866,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Rocket Giving Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (60%), Recreation & Sports (13%), Health (9%).
- Who are Rocket Giving Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: United Way for Southeastern Michigan ($4.2M), Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation ($627k), People for Palmer Park ($550k).
- Does Rocket Giving Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rocket Giving Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include DTE Energy Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation.
- Where is Rocket Giving Fund based?
- Rocket Giving Fund is based in MI.
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