· Public charity
Shamrock 555 Foundation
For charitable and educational and to prevent cruelty to children.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $166,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $180,836 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,336 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SE MICHIGAN | $25,000 |
| DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT | $20,000 |
| HEARTS FOR HOMES | $11,500 |
| PAINT A MIRACLE | $10,000 |
| STONEY CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| GIVE MERIT | $10,000 |
| NF FORWARD | $10,000 |
| THE GREENING OF DETROIT | $10,000 |
| MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COMM FOUNDATION GREATER ROCHESTER | $10,000 |
| MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| GIANNA HOUSE | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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.
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 +64% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- NNFX7× · 2018–2024 · $161k · revenue +64%
- DBDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM6× · 2018–2024 · $135k · revenue +82%
- MYMOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT6× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- AHACENSION HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $25k
BRILLIANT DETROITone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -59%- BBBEYOND BASICSone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -2%
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.
Inspired by its heritage since 1906, matrix human services advocates for and services the most vulnerable in the metropolitan detroit community and empowers individiuals and families to enhance the quality of their lives and achieve self…
Provide support, services and aid to current, future and past foster, adoptive and relative parents who are or were in the foster care system.
The mission of desc is to cultivate local workforce talent to align with the needs of the business community through partnerships with key workforce agencies, faith- and community- based organizations, education and training institutions,…
Progressionista serves Detroit girls ages 8-12 with literacy and mentorship programming and provides annually 250 books in total for participants to keep, in-person masterclasses with women professionals, hands-on career projects, and…
Friends of the children twin cities has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Promotion and advancement of training and education in the arts for persons with disabilities.
Friends of the children commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…
Collection of new unused mittens to be distributed to those in need in the detroit, michigan and other nearby underserved cities.
To empower under-resourced teens in Metro Detroit through mentorship, tutoring and leadership programs that build confidence, skills, and purpose.
Covenant house michigan is a sanctuary for homeless and at-risk young people, ages 18-24 who have nowhere to go. it is our mission to serve these children with respect and love.covenant house michigan builds bridges to hope for young…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Children - Detroit and the most unlike its peers is Nfx. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 NFX ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR REACH ↗
- Who funds HEARTS FOR HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAINT A MIRACLE ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds GIVE MERIT INC ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BASICS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS ↗
- Who funds MEND ON THE MOVE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - DETROIT ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · The Jamie & Denise Jacob Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Shamrock 555 Foundation 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.
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.