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The Barton Malow 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k58 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $403k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $348k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $160,042 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOC | $125,694 |
| NATL ASSOC OF WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION | $62,100 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ENGINEERING | $32,500 |
| MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORP | $25,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MI | $25,000 |
| JUDSON CENTER | $25,000 |
| ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF BALTIMORE MD | $21,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $20,125 |
| YMCA METROPOLITAN DETROIT | $20,000 |
| YOURCAUSE LLC | $16,644 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OAKLAND | $15,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY DETROIT | $15,000 |
| ADVENTHEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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, $486k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of The Barton Malow Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 52% of the giving stays in MI; read by stated purpose it is 41% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
252 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2025, 193 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k 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 Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $567k · revenue +33%
- AEAGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2022 · $168k · revenue +94%
LIFE REMODELED8× · 2018–2025 · $83k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- WWWOMEN WHO WELDone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +13%
- ICILITCH CHARITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +219%
EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $24k · revenue +45%
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.
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.…
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…
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
We honor life through donation.
Henry ford health macomb hospital (hfmh) is an affiliate of henry ford health system dba henry ford health ("hf health") serving the northeastern metropolitan detroit michigan communities. as an integrated component of one of the nation's…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Creating healthy communities - together
Creating healthy communities - together
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tangelo Park Program 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 33 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% 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.
316 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. 316 of the 597 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 AGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FERRIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND ↗
- Who funds LIFE REMODELED ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB METRO DETROIT ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Humble Design Inc ↗
- Who funds WINNING FUTURES ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY DETROIT ↗
- Who funds JUDSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERTA'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NFX ↗
- Who funds DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DEACONESS HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CASEY CARES FOUNDATION 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 · Ford Philanthropy · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Fca Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Carls Foundation · Eagles for Children
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 The Barton Malow 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.
- Roberta's House Inc — 21% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Maryland Academy of Sciences — 9% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Baptist Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- St Joseph's Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Franciscan Life Center Network Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Onbikes Inc — 0% of income from government
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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