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Shirley K Schlafer Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$314k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$194k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Health$7.2MArts & Culture$523kScience & Tech$325kYouth Development$130kEnvironment$102kHuman Services$102kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kEducation$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $294k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$193,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$50,000
NORTH STAR REACH$50,000
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT$10,000
CRANBROOK SCHOOLS$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $10k → 17%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $10k → 14%NORTH STAR REACH: $60k → 5%CRANBROOK SCHOOLS: $10k → 8%ANN ARBOR ART CENTER: $25k → 14%MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE: $25k → 21%WILD FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $25k → 17%NORTH STAR REACH: $50k → 5%CRANBROOK SCHOOLS: $10k → 8%ANN ARBOR ART CENTER: $10k → 14%PEWABIC POTTERY SOCIETY: $25k → 21%WILD FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%NORTH STAR REACH: $20k → 5%CRANBROOK SCHOOLS: $10k → 8%WILD FOUNDATION: $16k → 12%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $50k → 14%CRANBROOK SCHOOLS: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1.6M → 14%WILD FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $125k → 14%CRANBROOK SCHOOLS: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1.5M → 14%NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $50k → 14%CRANBROOK SCHOOLS: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1.4M → 14%NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $50k → 14%CRANBROOK SCHOOLS: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1.3M → 14%NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $50k → 14%CRANBROOK SCHOOLS: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $240k → 14%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $100k → 21%NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $200k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $50k → 21%NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $194k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $50k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $90k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $50k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $50k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $50k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $50k → 14%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $50k → 21%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $50k → 21%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $50k → 21%MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $15k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.4M · 12 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$8.4M
$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-15%

Still filing today

67%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    8× · 2018–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +195% · 95% of their budget
  • NG
    NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $325k · revenue +60%
  • NS
    NORTH STAR REACH
    3× · 2023–2025 · $130k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -40%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +13%
  • DO
    DETROIT OPERA
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +23%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
2
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice

The organization is known as the leader in the movement and is seen as the "go to" experts on environmental justice and sustainable redevelopment because of its knowledge and its network.

Health
5
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
6
International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management Inc I

To end hunger and advance sustainable development by 2030 through science and innovation to transform food, land and water systems with aquatic foods for healthier people and planet.

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7
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
8
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
9
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
10
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
11
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
12
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Rolling Dog Farm. 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

17 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. 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Michigan — $6,711,750 · OtherUniversity of MichiganPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $461,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD+8 more — $401,900 · OtherMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT — $375,000 · Arts & CultureAnn Arbor Art Association — $38,940 · Arts & CultureDETROIT OPERA — $25,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $325,000 · EducationNORTH STAR REACH — $130,000 · Youth DevelopmentWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $50,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $25,000 · International+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WATER FUND — $1,000 · EnvironmentGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$7,574,650Arts & Culture$438,940Education$325,000Youth Development$130,000International$76,000Environment$26,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Michigan — $6,711,750 over 8y, 95% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT — $375,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $325,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH STAR REACH — $130,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES DET — $101,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $76,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnn Arbor Art Association — $38,940 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT OPERA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROLLING DOG FARM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD ASSISTANCE FOR CAMBODIA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · 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 Shirley K Schlafer 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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