· Private foundation
Sterken Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $49,574 |
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 (FY20–22, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +24% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PHPackard Health Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +42%
- MTMICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +102%
- FGFOOD GATHERERS2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $500
- HMHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INCone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue -8%
- BABreakfast at St Andrewsone grant, 2022 · $500
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.
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.
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.…
The league's mission is to promote racial equity, economic security, health, and well being for all people in michigan through policy change.
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.
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.…
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
Freedom House Detroit's mission is to "Support and empower refugees, asylum seekers, and others seeking humanitarian protection on their journey to safety, security, and freedom by providing comprehensive services in an inclusive and…
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
We create, nurture, and empower a global community of scholars focused on creating, advancing, and disseminating knowledge in international business research, education, policy, and practice.
The Association is an independent worldwide organization that nurtures lifelong relationships with and among current and future Michigan alumni. As a committed partner of the University the Association offers programs of relevance and…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 50 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 MICHIGAN KENYA PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Packard Health Inc ↗
- Who funds OZONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds CORNER HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SCRAP BOX ↗
- Who funds WASHTENAW HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS GROUP ↗
- Who funds HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS LITERACY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Friends In Deed ↗
- Who funds Neutral Zone ↗
- Who funds HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
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 · United Way of Washtenaw County · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · The Buhr Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Edward F Redies Foundation Inc · Harold and Jean Grossman Family Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · Jenkins Foundation · Thrift Shop Association of Ann Arbor · Duffy Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sterken Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sterken Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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