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Shamrock 555 Foundation

For charitable and educational and to prevent cruelty to children.

$181k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Youth Development$225kHealth$186kHuman Services$125kArts & Culture$100kReligion$36kHousing & Shelter$23kEducation$10kEnvironment$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $166,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $180,836 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,336 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$201k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
COMM FOUNDATION GREATER ROCHESTER$10,000
MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM$10,000
GIVE MERIT$10,000
PAINT A MIRACLE$10,000
NF FORWARD$10,000
GIANNA HOUSE$10,000
THE GREENING OF DETROIT$10,000
STONEY CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH$10,000
MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%MEND ON THE MOVE: $10k → 8%MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$589k · 10 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against -13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$589k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
-13%

Still filing today

90%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • N
    NFX
    7× · 2018–2024 · $161k · revenue +64%
  • DB
    DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM
    6× · 2018–2024 · $135k · revenue +82%
  • MY
    MOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT
    6× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • AH
    ACENSION HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - DETROIT
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -13%
  • V-
    VARIETY -THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY DET
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
About Face Detroit
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2
Matrix Human Services

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…

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3
The Michigan Glass Project
Public Benefit
4
Michigan Foster Care Closet

Provide support, services and aid to current, future and past foster, adoptive and relative parents who are or were in the foster care system.

Human Services
5
Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation

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,…

Employment
6
Progressionista

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…

Youth Development
7
Friends of the Children - Twin Cities

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…

Youth Development
8
Michigan Arts Access

Promotion and advancement of training and education in the arts for persons with disabilities.

Arts & Culture
9
Friends of the Children Fargo- Moorhead

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…

Human Services
10
Mittens for Detroit Inc

Collection of new unused mittens to be distributed to those in need in the detroit, michigan and other nearby underserved cities.

Human Services
11
Glean for Teens Inc

To empower under-resourced teens in Metro Detroit through mentorship, tutoring and leadership programs that build confidence, skills, and purpose.

Philanthropy
12
Covenant House Michigan

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Children - Detroit; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NFX: $160,955 · HealthNFXDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM: $134,500 · Recreation & SportsDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM Y…ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $75,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGU…THE MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE MACOMB CHARI…MEND ON THE MOVE: $10,000 · Human ServicesMEND ON THE MOVESTONEY CREEK COMMUNITY CHURCH: $25,550 · OtherSTONEY CREEK COMMUNITY…ACENSION HOSPITAL: $25,000 · OtherACENSION HOSPITALVARIETY -THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY DET: $10,000 · OtherVARIETY -THE CHILDREN'…NEW DAY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherNEW DAY FOUNDATIONTHE GREENING OF DETROIT: $10,000 · OtherTHE GREENING OF DETROI…COMM FOUNDATION GREATER ROCHESTER: $10,000 · OtherCOMM FOUNDATION GREATE…GIANNA HOUSE: $10,000 · OtherGIANNA HOUSEFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - DETROIT: $10,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHILDRE…GIVE MERIT INC: $10,000 · OtherGIVE MERIT INCFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS: $10,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDSBEYOND BASICS: $10,000 · OtherBEYOND BASICSMOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT: $80,000 · Arts & CultureMOSAIC YOUTH TH…PAINT A MIRACLE: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePAINT A MIRACLENORTH STAR REACH: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTH STA…THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MIDNI…BRILLIANT DETROIT: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRILLIANT…HEARTS FOR HOMES INC: $22,500 · Housing & Shelter
Health$160,955Recreation & Sports$134,500Human Services$105,000Other$140,550Arts & Culture$100,000Youth Development$60,000Housing & Shelter$22,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNFX: $160,955 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM: $134,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetMOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT: $80,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $75,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetNORTH STAR REACH: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHEARTS FOR HOMES INC: $22,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPAINT A MIRACLE: $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - DETROIT: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEND ON THE MOVE: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetGIVE MERIT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBEYOND BASICS: $10,000 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.

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.

Community Foundation …DTE Energy FoundationThe Jamie & Denise Ja…United Jewish Foundat…The Richard M Schulze…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI23.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Shamrock 555 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shamrock 555 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 22 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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