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Talbert & Leota Abrams Foundation at a glance

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Talbert & Leota Abrams 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.

$326k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$655kHuman Services$623kEnvironment$552kHealth$519kRecreation & Sports$245kYouth Development$88kEducation$21kAnimals$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $311k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ZERO DAY$40,000
FOUNDATION FOR HOPE OUTDOOR ADVENTURE$35,000
EISENHOWER DANCE CENTER$30,000
THE PATH FOUNDATION$30,000
R&E FAMILY FOUNDATION$30,000
NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES$25,000
GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT$20,000
KIDS KICKING CANCER$20,000
MICHIGAN UNITED CONSERVATION CLUBS$18,800
TEAM 217 THUNDERCHICKENS$15,000
WINGS OF FREEDOM$15,000
MICHIGAN HISTORY FOUNDATION - ARCHIVES OF MICHIGAN$12,500
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND$10,050
FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS$10,000
THE YMCA OF GREATER TOLEDO$7,500
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 (FY17–25, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $4k → 14%R&E FAMILY FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%R&E FAMILY FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%R&E FAMILY FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%R&E FAMILY FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%R&E FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $8k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $8k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $8k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $7k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 8%CAMP CASEY: $10k → 8%CAMP CASEY: $6k → 8%SANCTUM HOUSE: $13k → 8%SANCTUM HOUSE: $8k → 8%SANCTUM HOUSE: $8k → 8%SANCTUM HOUSE: $7k → 8%SANCTUM HOUSE: $6k → 8%SANCTUM HOUSE: $5k → 8%CHARLOTTE'S WINGS: $4k → 8%CHARLOTTE'S WINGS: $4k → 8%CHARLOTTE'S WINGS: $3k → 8%CHARLOTTE'S WINGS: $3k → 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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 25 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
13

Total granted

$2.6M
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+65%

Still filing today

76%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • ZERO DAY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $364k · revenue +265%
  • TP
    THE PATH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $285k · revenue +21% · 43% of their budget
  • PA
    PAINT A MIRACLE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $250k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • WB
    WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL - PARENTING PROGRAM
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • PF
    PATH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +7%
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
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
2
Michigan Federation for Children and Families

To develop and promote programs, funding, etc. for children and families.

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3
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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4
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
5
Michigan Operation Freedom Outdoors
Human Services
6
Michigan Animal Health Foundation

To provide financial assistance to individuals and institutions for educational and scientific purposes in order to advance science to benefit the health and welfare of animals.

Animals
7
The Center for Michigan

For all state residents, diverse civic stakeholders and philanthropy, the center for michigan (the center) and its nonprofit newsrooms - bridge michigan and bridgedetroit - make michigan better through high-quality, nonpartisan journalism…

Public Benefit
8
Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of Michigan

Providing patient support, community connections, education and advocacy.

Health
9
Arc Michigan

Arc michigan empowers local chapters to assure that citizens with disabilites and their families participate fully in and contribute to the life of their community.

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10
Michigan State Medical Society Foundation

To advance the field of health for the public good.

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11
Michigan Heroes Museum

To teach & perpetuate the history of military accomplishments of citizens of the state of michigan and to maintain a museum for that purpose.

Arts & Culture
12
Michigan Legacy Art Park

Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Sanctum House 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

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 38 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EISENHOWER DANCE CENTER: $255,000 · OtherEISENHOWER DANCE CENTERDISCOVERING RECREATION & EXPLORING WILDLIFE INC: $87,683 · OtherDISCOVERING RECREATION & …TEAM 217 THUNDERCHICKENS: $87,000 · OtherTEAM 217 THUNDERCHICKENSWILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL - PARENTING PROGRAM: $50,000 · OtherWILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL…Individual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo: $27,500 · OtherWINGS OF FREEDOM: $27,000 · OtherTAILS-A-WAGGIN VETERANS HUNT: $21,000 · Other+6 more: $38,500 · Other+6 moreZERO DAY INC: $364,000 · EnvironmentZERO DAY INCMICHIGAN UNITED CONSERVATION CLUBS: $175,148 · EnvironmentMICHIGAN UNITED CONSER…PAINT A MIRACLE: $250,000 · Arts & CulturePAINT A MIRACLEGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $114,000 · Arts & CultureGILDA'S CLUB METRO D…MICHIGAN HISTORY FOUNDATION INC: $111,500 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN HISTORY FOU…+2 more: $8,400 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $235,000 · HealthTHE NEW DAY FOUN…KIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $75,000 · HealthKIDS KICKING CAN…BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $70,000 · HealthBEAUMONT HEALTH …+1 more: $10,000 · HealthTHE PATH FOUNDATION: $284,845 · EducationTHE PATH FO…R&E FAMILY FOUNDATION: $84,000 · Human ServicesR&E FAMIL…LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $63,105 · Human ServicesLEADER DO…SANCTUM HOUSE INC: $45,300 · Human ServicesSANCTUM H…CAMP CASEY CORPORATION: $15,500 · Human ServicesCAMP CASE…CHARLOTTE'S WINGS: $12,500 · Human ServicesCHARLOTTE…+1 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR HOPE OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $92,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS: $22,700 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropySPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsPATH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsRUTH ELLIS CENTER: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$623,683Environment$539,148Arts & Culture$483,900Health$390,000Education$284,845Human Services$223,905Philanthropy$116,700Recreation & Sports$65,000

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 budgetZERO DAY INC: $364,000 over 9y, 18% of budgetTHE PATH FOUNDATION: $284,845 over 8y, 43% of budgetPAINT A MIRACLE: $250,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetTHE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES: $235,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetMICHIGAN UNITED CONSERVATION CLUBS: $175,148 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT: $114,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetMICHIGAN HISTORY FOUNDATION INC: $111,500 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HOPE OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $92,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetR&E FAMILY FOUNDATION: $84,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $63,105 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSANCTUM HOUSE INC: $45,300 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS: $22,700 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCAMP CASEY CORPORATION: $15,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHARLOTTE'S WINGS: $12,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetCATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPAINT CREEK CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $6,900 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRUTH ELLIS CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY UPPER MICHIGAN CHAPTER: $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetR E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 ZERO DAY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PATH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PAINT A MIRACLE ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN UNITED CONSERVATION CLUBS ↗
  • Who funds GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN HISTORY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HOPE OUTDOOR ADVENTURES ↗
  • Who funds R&E FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIDS KICKING CANCER INC ↗
  • Who funds BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds SANCTUM HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo ↗
  • Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF FOSTER KIDS ↗
  • Who funds CAMP CASEY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION RESOURCE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE'S WINGS ↗
  • Who funds CATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PAINT CREEK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds RUTH ELLIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY UPPER MICHIGAN CHAPTER ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds R E OLDS TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY ↗

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 …DTE Energy FoundationFord PhilanthropyHarry a and Margaret …United Way for Southe…The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI20.6× affinity8 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 · Ford Philanthropy · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Talbert & Leota Abrams Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Talbert & Leota Abrams Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
    10report 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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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