· Private foundation
Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $125k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HANDS ACROSS THE WATER | $20,000 |
| PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $20,000 |
| JACKSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WASHTENAW AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| AWARE INC | $10,000 |
| DAHLEM CONSERVANCY | $9,993 |
| WASHTENAW CAMP PLACEMENT | $8,000 |
| SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVANCY | $8,000 |
| SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVANCY | $8,000 |
| CRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER | $8,000 |
| SAFE HOUSE CENTER | $8,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $8,000 |
| CHILDRENS LITERACY NETWORK | $7,250 |
| CHILDREN'S AID AND FAMILY SERVICES | $6,000 |
| FRIENDS INDEED | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $518k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 91%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TDTHE DAHLEM CONSERVANCY5× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +54%
- CLCHILDRENS LITERACY NETWORK8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +109%
- HAHANDS ACROSS THE WATER INC6× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- TATHE ARKone grant, 2022 · $20k
- SASALVATION ARMY OF JACKSON COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $20k
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +84%
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.
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.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
To serve individuals with disabilities by providing residential and personal support in a manner that promotes individual dignity, community integration and quality of life
To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
To advocate for, educate, and assist our target populations. our services address the needs of many different people, but we continue to target our services to older adults and persons with disabilities.
The mission of jackson community ambulance is to provide high-quality out-of-hospital care and transportation services to the communities we serve.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
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…
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…
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
How this is measured
57 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. 57 of the 88 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Jackson Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE DAHLEM CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS LITERACY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HANDS ACROSS THE WATER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Peace Neighborhood Center ↗
- Who funds Aware Inc ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT ADVOCACY CENTER OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds Our Neighbors Keeper ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL LAKE TEEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Jackson School of the Arts Assoc ↗
- Who funds ANN ARBOR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHTENAW AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Therapeutic Riding Inc ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR YOUTH HELP THEM PROSPER ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE AND CAREER ACCESS CENTER OF JACKSON ↗
- Who funds MYPLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends In Deed ↗
- Who funds Foundations Preschool of Washtenaw County ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MASTER INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Jackson Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds OZONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · Jackson Community Foundation · The Alvin L Glick Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Lavery Foundation · Edward F Redies Foundation Inc · DTE Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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