· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $311k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZERO DAY | $40,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR HOPE OUTDOOR ADVENTURE | $35,000 |
| EISENHOWER DANCE CENTER | $30,000 |
| R&E FAMILY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE PATH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| NEW DAY FOUNDATION FOR FAMILIES | $25,000 |
| KIDS KICKING CANCER | $20,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT | $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 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
25 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 9 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
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
ZERO DAY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $364k · revenue +265%- TPTHE PATH FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $285k · revenue +21% · 43% of their budget
- PAPAINT A MIRACLE7× · 2017–2023 · $250k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- WBWILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL - PARENTING PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
- PFPATH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -7%
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 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…
To develop and promote programs, funding, etc. for children and families.
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.…
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.
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…
Providing patient support, community connections, education and advocacy.
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.
To advance the field of health for the public good.
To teach & perpetuate the history of military accomplishments of citizens of the state of michigan and to maintain a museum for that purpose.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and 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.
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 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 38 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
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 Talbert & Leota Abrams 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.
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.