· Private foundation
The Cold Heading 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $125k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $405k
- $250k+2 grants · $610k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WARRIORS BASEBALL CLUB OF MICHIGAN | $360,000 |
| UNLV FOOTBALL FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CAMPUS FOR HOPE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GROSSE POINTE CITY FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON ENGINEERING | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NEVADA MANSION | $25,000 |
| MAYO FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BALLER DREAM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH OF GROSSE POINTE | $20,000 |
| OUR LADY OF LAS VEGAS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $20,000 |
| CORWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTHEAST | $10,000 |
| BAYVIEW YACHT CLUB JUNIOR SAILORS INC | $10,000 |
| ST JOAN OF ARC OF LAS VEGAS | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 90% of The Cold Heading Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 58% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 3%.
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 +45% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 12 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WBWARRIORS BASEBALL CLUB OF MICHIGAN6× · 2020–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +47% · 54% of their budget
- VGVEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +42%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF LAS VEGAS METRO POLICE DEPTone grant, 2020 · $130k
- UOUniversity of Michigangraduatedone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue +96%
- WLWISE LAS VEGASone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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Our mission is to provide opportunities for kids, regardless of their abilities, to compete and experience the joy and benefits that come from playing sports.
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
The mission of calvary hospital is to care for the medical, emotional and spiritual needs of our adult patients with advanced cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. it is the only fully accredited acute care hospital in the u.s. devoted…
The chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.
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How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 104 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 WARRIORS BASEBALL CLUB OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Blackhawks Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds BAYVIEW YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLER DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMERLIN SOUTH LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HEARTLIGHT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WISE LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds MAYOR'S FUND FOR LAS VEGAS LIFE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NEVADA MANSION ↗
- Who funds VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Miller Louise Tuller Trust Xxxxx8009 · Catholic Foundation of Michigan · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cold Heading Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cold Heading Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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