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Somerset Collection Charitable Foundation

The organization will undertake numerous activities to raise funds in order to distribute the net proceeds to other tax-exempt organizations, primarily in the state of michigan.

$394k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$166k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.0MCommunity Improvement$78kHealth$70kYouth Development$65kEnvironment$48kAnimals$42kHuman Services$29kPhilanthropy$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $107k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $265k
$13,975
Median grant
1
States reached
$473k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY$166,058
VARIOUS DONATIONS LESS THAN 5001$99,378
DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE$22,500
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$20,133
Individual grant recipient$20,000
PEWABIC POTTERY ART INSTITUTE$13,975
DETROIT DOG RESCUE$10,031
THE GUIDANCE CENTER$10,000
FRIENDS FOR FOSTER KIDS$10,000
PEACE LOVE AND PAWS RESCUE$7,660
FLEECE & THANK YOU$7,392
MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUM$6,876
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE DIANA RASHA FOUNDATION: $13k → 8%MICHIGAN STATEWIDE - JATF: $20k → 8%PEWABIC POTTERY ART INSTITUTE: $27k → 21%PEWABIC POTTERY ART INSTITUTE: $22k → 21%FLEECE & THANK YOU: $22k → 8%PEWABIC POTTERY ART INSTITUTE: $20k → 21%PEWABIC POTTERY ART INSTITUTE: $17k → 21%THE GUIDENCE CENTER: $15k → 21%PEWABIC POTTERY ART INSTITUTE: $16k → 21%THE GUIDENCE CENTER: $15k → 21%PEWABIC POTTERY ART INSTITUTE: $15k → 21%PEWABIC POTTERY ART INSTITUTE: $14k → 21%PEWABIC POTTERY ART INSTITUTE: $13k → 21%VARIOUS DONATIONS LESS THAN 5001: $99k → 21%VARIOUS DONATIONS LESS THAN 5001: $86k → 21%VARIOUS DONATIONS LESS THAN 5001: $67k → 21%VARIOUS DONATIONS LESS THAN 5001: $65k → 21%VARIOUS DONATIONS LESS THAN 5001: $62k → 21%VARIOUS DONATIONS LESS THAN 5001: $52k → 21%VARIOUS DONATIONS LESS THAN 5001: $47k → 21%VARIOUS DONATIONS LESS THAN 5001: $47k → 21%DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $166k → 21%DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE: $25k → 21%DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $95k → 21%VARIOUS DONATIONS LESS THAN 5001: $25k → 21%DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $65k → 21%DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE: $23k → 21%DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $59k → 21%DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE: $23k → 21%DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $57k → 21%DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE: $20k → 21%DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $20k → 21%DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE: $20k → 21%DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $20k → 21%DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE: $20k → 21%DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $20k → 21%DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE: $20k → 21%DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $17k → 21%DETRIOT SYMPHONY: $18k → 21%DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $17k → 21%DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE: $18k → 21%DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $17k → 21%DETROIT RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES: $15k → 21%DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $13k → 21%DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13k → 21%SAY DETROIT: $20k → 21%SAY DETROIT: $20k → 21%SAY DETROIT: $16k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 13 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
18

Total granted

$1.8M
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
-9%

Still filing today

69%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

  • Detroit Historical Society
    9× · 2017–2025 · $484k · revenue +17%
  • DETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $174k · revenue +164%
  • THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $147k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DIANA RASHA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • AZ
    ANNE ZEMBA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • SO
    SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +22%

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
Michigan Humane Society

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

Animals
2
Detroit Donates Inc
Housing & Shelter
3
Detroit Food Policy Council

The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…

Food & Nutrition
4
Friends of Detroit Animal Care and Control

Friends of the detroit animal care and control is committed to ensuring equal access to companion animals for those of all socioeconomic levels and raising the care for animals living in detroit.

Animals
5
Detroit Puppet Company

Dpc uses awe-inspiring puppetry as a vehicle for a better tomorrow. dpc collaborates with the local commmunity to create inclusive spaces that bring together detroit and hamtramck residents with artists from around the country. the works…

Arts & Culture
6
About Face Detroit
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7
Harm Reduction Michigan

The mission of harm reduction is to reduce substance abuse and related activities in a respectful manner in collaboration with the user

Health
8
Homeless Action Network of Detroit

Our mission is to increase awareness of the problems of people who are homeless and the development and carrying out of strategies to create permanent solutions to homelessness in our community.

Human Services
9
Noah Project

Noah project is a no-kill animal shelter dedicated to the rescue of abused, abandoned and unwanted animals. its mission is to not allow a healthy, adoptable dog or cat that is accepted at the center to be destroyed.

Animals
10
Detroit Artists Market

Promoting and exhibiting work of southeastern michigan artists.

Arts & Culture
11
Michigan Animal Rescue League

The mission of the michigan animal rescue league is to provide the highest quality of life to dogs and cats through rescue, medical care, socialization and behavioral support, short- and long-term sanctuary, adoption, and community…

Animals
12
The Michigan Glass Project
Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit and the most unlike its peers is The Healing Notes Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%5%<5yr15%14%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr12%27%35–55yr13%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%1%20–35yr12%7%35–55yr13%61%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
17%
2,883/16,583

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 34 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
11/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Detroit Historical Society — $484,426 · Arts & CultureDetroit Historical SocietyDETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE — $174,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUBLIC THEATRETHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $146,616 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS+3 more — $37,782 · Arts & CultureVARIOUS DONATIONS LESS THAN 5001 — $549,117 · OtherVARIOUS DONATIONS LESS THAN 5001PEWABIC POTTERY ART INSTITUTE — $154,299 · OtherPEWABIC POTTERY ART INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient — $30,044 · Other+12 more — $104,966 · Other+12 moreTHE GUIDANCE CENTER — $66,500 · HealthDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries — $32,250 · HealthTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION — $6,500 · HealthTHE HEALING NOTES FOUNDATION — $5,500 · HealthFLEECE & THANK YOU — $65,062 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST INC — $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentSAY DETROIT — $66,000 · Housing & ShelterDETROIT DOG RESCUE — $15,531 · AnimalsPEACE LOVE AND PAWS RESCUE LLC — $7,660 · AnimalsRebel Dogs Detroit Inc — $6,500 · AnimalsMICHIGAN ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY — $6,500 · AnimalsFRIENDS FOR ANIMALS OF METRO DETROIT — $5,550 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$842,824Other$838,426Health$110,750Youth Development$71,562Housing & Shelter$66,000Animals$41,741Philanthropy$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 budgetDetroit Historical Society — $484,426 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE — $174,000 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $146,616 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GUIDANCE CENTER — $66,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAY DETROIT — $66,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetFLEECE & THANK YOU — $65,062 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries — $32,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $24,876 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDETROIT DOG RESCUE — $15,531 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPEACE LOVE AND PAWS RESCUE LLC — $7,660 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSPHINX ORGANIZATION INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST INC — $6,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRebel Dogs Detroit Inc — $6,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE AGAINST TRAFFICKING — $6,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION — $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY — $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDETROIT OPERA — $6,406 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND — $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAVEN FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS FOR ANIMALS OF METRO DETROIT — $5,550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEALING NOTES FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 1y, 12% 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 …Dte Energy FoundationThe Barton Malow Foun…Ford PhilanthropyThe Kresge FoundationCharles Stewart Mott …The Skillman Foundati…United Jewish Foundat…Edward C and Linda Dr…Butzel Long Charitabl…The Fred & Barbara Er…Flagstar Foundation I…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI28.7× affinity12 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 Barton Malow Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · The Kresge Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · Butzel Long Charitable Trust · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc

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 Somerset Collection Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    6report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Somerset Collection Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Somerset Collection Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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