· Public charity
Ascension Southeast Michigan Community Health
As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care and healing.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $85,494 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $105,110 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,616 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL | $14,650 |
| RACING FOR KIDS | $14,400 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN | $13,500 |
| GUEST HOUSE INC | $12,887 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE | $6,650 |
| DETROIT MOTTEP FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER DETROIT | $5,750 |
| CHALDEAN AMERICAN LADIES OF CHARITY | $5,657 |
| MICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc3× · 2019–2021 · $62k · revenue +43%
- COCARE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN4× · 2019–2022 · $56k · revenue +13%
- GHGUEST HOUSE INC4× · 2019–2023 · $55k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- TDTHE DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORGgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $53k · revenue +838%
- DJDETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue -6%
VISTA MARIAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $29k · revenue +37%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in 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.…
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.…
1) to plan and conduct nonpartisan public education programs regarding free enterprise, productivity and basic economic issues affecting the state of michigan.2) to establish and operate a leadership institute designed to provide promising…
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
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…
To develop programs and advocate for policies that result in profitable and sustainable black-owned businesses that are connected to public and private economic opportunities, while building trusted relationships.
To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart of detroit.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Links Foundation Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Edsel & Eleanor Ford House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
65 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. 65 of the 78 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CARE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORG ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF DETROIT AND SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF MI ASSO OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN HERITAGE ↗
- Who funds INFORUM ↗
- Who funds CHALDEAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC DBA CHALDEAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHALDEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND ↗
- Who funds EDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds MOROSS GREENWAY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MACOMB COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT MOTTEP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RACING FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds HOWELL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE YACHT CLUB ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Henry Ford Health System · Ford Philanthropy · The Kresge Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Henry Ford Health Providence Hospital · Hudson-Webber 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 Ascension Southeast Michigan Community Health 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.
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.
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