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Sills Foundation Inc

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.

$277k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$203kPhilanthropy$160kCivil Rights$147kHealth$130kArts & Culture$95kHuman Services$54kAnimals$41kEducation$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k38 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$50,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT$40,000
FRIENDS OF THE IDF$40,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
HENRY FORD HEALTH$20,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - GOLF OUTING$15,000
FORESTBURGH PLAYHOUSE$10,500
YOUNG ACTORS THEATRE$10,000
CONGREGATION T'CHIYAG$7,500
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER$5,000
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$4,500
AMERICAN PARKINSONS DISEASE ASSOCIATION$4,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$4,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$3,000
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$2,530
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, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $500 → 17%FOCUS HOPE: $2k → 21%LIVING AND LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $500 → 8%ANGELS PLACE: $9k → 8%ANGELS PLACE: $2k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
DE
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
$558k · 40 repeat orgs$329k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
49

Total granted

$558k
$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+2%

Still filing today

70%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureCivil RightsAnimalsHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +48%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +211%
  • THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -51%
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • TB
    THE BALOONICORM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
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
Delta Dental Fund

Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.

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2
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

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3
The Greater Detroit Health Transition Company

Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…

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4
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
5
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
6
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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7
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
8
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
9
American Academy of Dermatology Association Inc

To represent the interests of dermatologists and their patients. to influence and be a credible resource for public and private entities related to all policies and regulations that have the potential to affect the delivery of dermatologic…

Health
10
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
11
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
12
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; the most unlike its peers is Horizon Theatre Company Inc. 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

60 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. 60 of the 110 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
39/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $40,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJEWISH FEDERATION: $40,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATIONJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - GOLF OUTING: $32,300 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - GOLF OUTINGIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE BALOONICORM FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherTHE BALOONICORM FOUNDATIONTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $13,876 · Other+70 more: $199,276 · Other+70 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MA…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $100,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL …+1 more: $3,000 · InternationalJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $120,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERAT…LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyLIFELABKIDS FO…+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $125,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATIO…+3 more: $5,800 · Civil RightsHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $20,000 · HealthHENRY FOR…BIRTH DETROIT INC: $20,000 · HealthBIRTH DET…AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $12,000 · HealthAMERICAN …THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $12,000 · HealthTHE MICHA…American Diabetes Association: $10,000 · HealthAmerican …ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,750 · HealthALZHEIMER…NEUROVASCULAR FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Health+4 more: $5,000 · Health+4 moreTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $25,500 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $17,400 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $4,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT OPERA: $2,500 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $4,196 · Arts & CultureANGELS' PLACE: $10,883 · Human ServicesFOCUSHOPE: $2,000 · Human ServicesLIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $500 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $500 · Human Services
Other$385,952International$203,000Philanthropy$131,000Civil Rights$130,800Health$86,750Arts & Culture$55,596Human Services$13,883

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $25,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTH DETROIT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $17,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $13,876 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS' PLACE: $10,883 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BEAR-HUG FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $5,106 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOAKLAND LITERACY COUNCIL: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRUTH ELLIS CENTER: $4,030 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEUROVASCULAR FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS RESOURCE ALLIANCE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL: $2,631 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT OPERA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUSHOPE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOG AIDE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMICHIGAN PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetECOLOGY CENTER: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRomanian League in Defense of Animals: $1,518 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZON THEATRE COMPANY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILE SQUARE THEATRE INC: $1,196 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSoi Dog Foundation USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetON THE MARGINS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBarak Ballet Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLiving Arts: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN MARKET CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds BIRTH DETROIT INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds ANGELS' PLACE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MICHIG ↗
  • Who funds THE BEAR-HUG FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds OAKLAND LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Detroit Jews for Justice ↗
  • Who funds RUTH ELLIS CENTER ↗

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 …The Kresge FoundationFord PhilanthropyUnited Way for Southe…Jewish Federation of …Children's Hospital o…United Jewish Foundat…DTE Energy FoundationBookstockChaim Fanny Louis Ben…Donald R and Esther S…Ben N Teitel Charitab…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI25.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Jewish Federation of Detroit · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Bookstock · Chaim Fanny Louis Benjamin Anne and Florence · Donald R and Esther Simon Foundation · Ben N Teitel Charitable Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Mile Square Theatre Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report 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
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 110 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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