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Shared Mission Foundation at a glance

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Shared Mission Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$120k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$135kHousing & Shelter$100kCrime & Legal$50kHealth$15kYouth Development$10kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$425k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPARROW FREEDOM PROJECT$25,000
COVENANT HOUSE OF MICHIGAN$25,000
FAMILY SERVICES$25,000
OZONE HOUSE$15,000
SOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER$10,000
DUTTON FARMS$10,000
DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM$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 (FY22–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OZONE HOUSE: $25k → 14%FIRST STEP THE WESTERN WAYNE COUNTY PROJECT ON DOMESTIC ASSAULT: $25k → 21%OZONE HOUSE: $15k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE OF MICHIGAN: $25k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE OF MICHIGAN: $5k → 21%DUTTON FARMS: $10k → 8%DUTTON FARM: $5k → 8%AREA AGENCY ON AGING 1-B: $5k → 8%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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$200k · 6 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$200k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+14%

Still filing today

83%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionCrime & LegalRecreation & 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

  • VISTA MARIA
    2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +27%
  • OH
    OZONE HOUSE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +12%
  • COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHALDEAN AMERICAN LADIES OF CHARITYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +122%
  • FS
    First Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +14%
  • TP
    TURNING POINT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +8%
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
Freedom House Detroit

Freedom House Detroit's mission is to "Support and empower refugees, asylum seekers, and others seeking humanitarian protection on their journey to safety, security, and freedom by providing comprehensive services in an inclusive and…

Human Services
2
The Serenity House of Flint

Advocate for people in recovery & provides holistic options for those recovering from substance use disorder, codependency & trauma.

Human Services
3
Caring House Inc

To promote a violence free atmosphere from domestic and sexual violence in which survivors can recognize their options to have the opportunity to continue living violence free and regain their sense of self-worth; to educate and raise…

Human Services
4
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
5
Lighthouse of Oakland County

To support lighthouse mi in their mission to build equitable communities and alleviate poverty in partnership with and in service to individuals, families, and organizations.

Human Services
6
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…

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7
House of Hope Green Bay Inc

House of hope green bay provides a safe and supportive place where youth and young families with children experiencing homelessness will be come confident, independent, and successful members of our community. house of hope envisions a…

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8
Staircase Youth Services Inc

The organizations mission is to be a leader in the delivery of supportive, preventive, and homeless services for youth and families at-risk or in crisis.

Human Services
9
Community & Home Supports Inc

Community & home supports, inc. was founded to help people and communities address poverty and homelessness. we strive to fulfill our purpose by developing, leading, and participating in collaborative and innovative efforts that support…

Human Services
10
Cadillac Area Oasisfamily Resource

Provide servicves to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and homlessness.

Human Services
11
The Dragonfly Home Inc

The Dragonfly Home walks alongside human trafficking victims-survivors on their path to freedom and restoration.

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12
A Safe Place

Emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ozone House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sparrow Freedom Project. 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 · OtherFAMILY SERVICESVISTA MARIA: $40,000 · OtherVISTA MARIACHALDEAN AMERICAN LADIES OF CHARITY: $25,000 · OtherCHALDEAN AMERICAN LADIES OF CHARITYCOVENANT HOUSE: $5,000 · OtherFIRST STEP WESTERN WAYNE COUNTY: $5,000 · OtherOZONE HOUSE INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesOZONE HOUSE INCCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $30,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGANFirst Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault: $25,000 · Human ServicesFirst Step The Western Wayne County Project …DUTTON FARM: $15,000 · Human ServicesDUTTON FARMTURNING POINT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTURNING POINT INCAgeWays Nonprofit Senior Services: $5,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterSparrow Freedom Project: $25,000 · Crime & LegalDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsOAKLAND HOPE: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$125,000Human Services$125,000Housing & Shelter$25,000Crime & Legal$25,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

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 budgetVISTA MARIA: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOZONE HOUSE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHALDEAN AMERICAN LADIES OF CHARITY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSparrow Freedom Project: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDUTTON FARM: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAgeWays Nonprofit Senior Services: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAKLAND HOPE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

DTE Energy FoundationUnited Way for Southe…Community Foundation …Consumers Energy Foun…Forgotten Harvest IncPhillip and Elizabeth…Ford PhilanthropyThe Gap FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
DTE Energy FoundationMI23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: DTE Energy Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · Forgotten Harvest Inc · Phillip and Elizabeth Filmer Memorial · Ford Philanthropy · The Gap Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Shared Mission Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shared Mission 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Shared Mission Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Shared Mission Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 15 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-PF 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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