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The Angelo and Margaret Diponio Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Angelo and Margaret Diponio Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$301k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$570kEducation$415kHuman Services$291kFood & Nutrition$134kEmployment$41kArts & Culture$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $500
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$50,000
CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN$50,000
SALINE AREA SOCIAL SERVICE INC$50,000
FORGOTTEN HARVEST$50,000
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND$25,000
SCHOOLCRAFT COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN$25,000
ANN ARBOR COMMUNITY CENTER INC$25,000
THE ARC OF NORTHWEST WAYNE COUNTY$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%LEADER DOG FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%LEADER DOG FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%LEADER DOG FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%LEADER DOG FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%ANGELA HOSPICE HOME CARE INC: $20k → 21%ANGELA HOSPICE HOME CARE INC: $20k → 21%ANGELA HOSPICE HOME CARE INC: $10k → 21%ANGELA HOSPICE HOME CARE INC: $10k → 21%ANGELA HOSPICE: $5k → 21%ANGELA HOSPICE: $2k → 21%ANGELA HOSPICE: $2k → 21%ANGELA HOSPICE: $2k → 21%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 21 repeat orgs$533k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
7

Total granted

$1.3M
$533k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-7%

Still filing today

57%
43%

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
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationArts & CultureEmploymentOther
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

  • SA
    SALINE AREA SOCIAL SERVICE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +4%
  • SC
    SCHOOLCRAFT COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +207%
  • FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $87k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TH
    TRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGANgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +28%
  • HP
    HOME PANTRY IN GARDEN CITY
    one grant, 2020 · $16k
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -56%
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
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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2
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
3
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
4
Michigan Pharmacists Association

To encourage and support its members as professionals responsible for the delivery of patient-focused care.

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5
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
6
Mclaren Northern Michigan

Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
7
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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8
Mclaren Macomb

Mclaren health care corporation, along with its subsidiaries, will be michigan's best value in healthcare as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
9
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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10
The Cardiac Institute

Our mission is to help people to live longer, healthier lives with dignity, and to use all of our resources to give them everything they expect and deserve in comprehensive cardiovascular care for their families and themselves.

Health
11
Michigan Farmers Market Association

Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.

Food & Nutrition
12
Michigan State Medical Society

Promote a health care environment that supports physicians in caring for and enhancing the health of michigan citizens through science, quality, and ethics in the practice of medicine.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan; the most unlike its peers is Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. 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

15 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. 15 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $325,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYSALINE AREA SOCIAL SERVICE INC: $115,000 · OtherSALINE AREA SOCIAL SERVICE INCANN ARBOR COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $75,000 · OtherANN ARBOR COMMUNITY CENTER INCCAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN: $70,000 · OtherCAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHENSALVATION ARMY ROYAL OAK: $62,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY ROYAL OAKIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOUR HOME PANTRY GARDEN CITY: $40,000 · Other+9 more: $70,500 · Other+9 moreTRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN: $500,000 · HealthTRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGANMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $60,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN+2 more: $12,000 · HealthANGELA HOSPICE HOME CARE INC: $71,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $62,000 · Human ServicesSCHOOLCRAFT COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EducationMadonna University: $25,000 · EducationFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $86,500 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $21,000 · Food & NutritionGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT: $40,000 · EmploymentDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $7,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$817,500Health$572,000Human Services$133,000Education$115,000Food & Nutrition$107,500Employment$40,000Arts & Culture$7,500

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 budgetTRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALINE AREA SOCIAL SERVICE INC: $115,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetSCHOOLCRAFT COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $86,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetANN ARBOR COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $75,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetANGELA HOSPICE HOME CARE INC: $71,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $62,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $60,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMadonna University: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN MICHIGAN: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF NORTHWEST WAYNE COUNTY: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 TRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds SALINE AREA SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOLCRAFT COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds ANN ARBOR COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ANGELA HOSPICE HOME CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds Madonna University ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION IN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF NORTHWEST WAYNE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE ↗

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.

Helen L Kay Charitabl…Ford PhilanthropyDTE Energy FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Pfizer Foundation…Raymond James Charita…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Helen L Kay Charitable TrustOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Helen L Kay Charitable Trust · Ford Philanthropy · DTE Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Angelo and Margaret Diponio Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Angelo and Margaret Diponio Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 28 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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