· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $111k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $390k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLACK TECH SATURDAYS | $350,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN | $200,000 |
| PEOPLE FOR PALMER PARK | $75,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $65,000 |
| DETROIT GOLF CLUB CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HUMAN-I-T | $31,400 |
| MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM | $30,000 |
| DETROIT PAL | $30,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF GREATER DETROIT | $20,000 |
| JUSTIN THOMAS FOUNDATION CO HELFER AND COMPANY LLC | $7,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +42% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $454k 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
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN5× · 2020–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +42%- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $627k · revenue +163%
- PFPEOPLE FOR PALMER PARK4× · 2019–2025 · $550k · revenue +149% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- DCDETROIT CHILDREN'S FUNDone grant, 2019 · $210k · revenue -33%
- FOFRIENDS OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue +50%
- RFRICKIE FOWLER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +96% · 72% of their budget
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.
Operate and maintain public golf course in the detroit lakes area; provide recreation for all ages
First tee is a youth development organization that enables kids to build the strength of character that empowers them through a lifetime of new challenges. by seamlessly integrating the game of golf with a life skills curriculum. we're…
To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart of detroit.
We are an association of local investment professionals consisting of portfolio managers, security analysts, investment advisors, and other financial professionals. we promote ethical and professional standards within the investment…
To raise and expend funds for the beautification, support of programs for public safety, and improvement of detroit, michigan and southeastern michigan. to raise and expend funds for the award of scholarships and the promotion of academic…
The foundation's mission is to provide access to golf programming and instruction to youth; to educate golfers on topics of safety and health; to promote the benefits of participating in the game of golf and; other reasonable and…
The organization works with k-12, higher education and other community partners to design and implement programs to improve rates of college persistence and completion.
To provide leadership for golf course superintendents and other golf industry partners on the economic, environmental, and recreational vitality of golf in michigan.
DPSFs mission is to create and enhance educational opportunities for over 50,000 Detroit Public Schools Community Districts students, families and educators. DPS Foundation was organized to ensure DPS, now DPSCD student and families to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Children's Fund and the most unlike its peers is Golf My Future Mygame. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
25 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.
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 UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR PALMER PARK ↗
- Who funds BLACK TECH SATURDAYS ALEXA TURNAGE ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds DETROIT GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND ↗
- Who funds DETROIT GOLF CLUB CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OFNORTHWEST ACTIVITIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RICKIE FOWLER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds GOLF MY FUTURE MYGAME ↗
- Who funds Human-I-T ↗
- Who funds THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Calvin Johnson Jr Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ECONOMIC GROWTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIVELY FIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JUSTIN THOMAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HORATIO WILLIAMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
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: 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
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 Rocket Giving Fund 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.
- Pga Tour Inc — 0% of income from government
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.