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The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17M
Granted FY2025still arriving
122
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$2.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0172% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$17MEnvironment$13MCommunity Improvement$8.8MPhilanthropy$7.2MEducation$4.8MHealth$4.4MAnimals$3.9MRecreation & Sports$2.8MYouth Development$1.1MOther$27M
02FY2025 · 122 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $900k
  • $50k–250k38 grants · $4.6M
  • $250k+19 grants · $12M
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$377M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HENRY FORD$2,600,000
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$1,300,000
DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA$1,125,000
SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$893,230
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC$655,000
FOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE$500,000
HURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL$455,000
ECOLOGY CENTER INC$385,000
COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS$379,000
FRIENDS OF THE ROUGE$335,000
INFORUM$311,000
CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL$300,000
MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$265,000
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY$262,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SEARCH & RESTORE: $5k → 20%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $25k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $25k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $13k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $10k → 21%STAND WITH TRANS: $100 → 8%STAND WITH TRANS: $100 → 8%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $5k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $100 → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC & SOCIAL SERVICES ACCESS: $19k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC & SOCIAL SERVICES ACCESS: $19k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC & SOCIAL SERVICES ACCESS: $19k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC & SOCIAL SERVICES ACCESS: $15k → 21%ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC & SOCIAL SERVICES ACCESS: $15k → 21%WE THE PEOPLE OF DETROIT: $5k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
MI
NY
OH
CA
NE
VA
MD
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$76M · 156 repeat orgs$7.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

156 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

156
96

Total granted

$76M
$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+9%

Still filing today

75%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +13%
  • DP
    DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +45%
  • DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2023 · $600k
  • DS
    DETROIT STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK DBA DETROIT FUTURE CITY
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • NF
    NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FEDERATION
    one grant, 2020 · $450k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit

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2
Michigan Legacy Art Park

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

Arts & Culture
3
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
4
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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5
Detroit Parks Coalition

The detroit parks coalition ("the coalition") is an alliance of community members and parks leaders working to support healthy, equitable, and vibrant parks in detroit. the coalition develops and facilitates city-wide parks programming,…

Recreation & Sports
6
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

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7
Endeavor Detroit

Endeavor Detroit is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Michigan and the wider Great Lakes region, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in the…

Community Improvement
8
Michigan Water Environment Association

Be and create stewards for the water environment of michigan. provide high quality education for michigan's water professionals. educate and inform policy makers and the general public. promote scientifically sound environmental practices…

Environment
9
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
10
Detroit Regional Chamber

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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11
Detroit Experience Factory

Detroit Experience Factory is a leading resource for both visitors and locals to discover, experience and learn about the people, places and projects around the city of Detroit.

Community Improvement
12
The Detroit Creativity Project

The detroit creativity project ("dcp") seeks to empower and inspire detroit's young people through improvisation, an art form that helps people build confidence and develop a creative and collaborative approach to their lives.

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeast Michigan Foundation for Public Spaces and the most unlike its peers is Detroit Puppet Company. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFraternal Organizations & V…Family Philanthropic Founda…Family & Community Support …Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr15%9%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr15%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr15%5%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr14%37%35–55yr15%26%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%4/191
the rest of the field
16%
8,176/50,233

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.

04the grantee network

180 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. 180 of the 276 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
175/180
Grantees still filing
123/180
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE HENRY FORD — $5,800,000 · OtherTHE HENRY FORDUniversity of Michigan — $2,684,460 · OtherUniversity of MichiganWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — $2,134,200 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,250,500 · OtherNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $2,100,000 · OtherNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC — $2,750,000 · OtherDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC+93 more — $17,962,795 · Other+93 moreDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA — $2,955,340 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIADETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $2,645,050 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCH…MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $1,453,220 · Arts & CultureMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUS…DETROIT OPERA — $1,155,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT OPERADETROIT CHAMBER WINDS INC — $990,890 · Arts & CultureDETROIT CHAMBER WINDS…THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $950,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE…CRANBROOK PROJECT — $800,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURESOURCE — $668,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS LEAGUE OF MICHIGAN — $654,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $585,000 · Arts & Culture+32 more — $3,821,400 · Arts & Culture+32 moreHURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL — $2,431,202 · EnvironmentHURON RIVER WATE…ECOLOGY CENTER — $1,872,500 · EnvironmentECOLOGY CENTERMICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL — $1,592,470 · EnvironmentMICHIGAN ENVIROM…FRIENDS OF THE ROUGE — $1,249,145 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE R…CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL — $1,009,400 · EnvironmentCLINTON RIVER WA…Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc — $870,300 · EnvironmentGreat Lakes Aqua…THE GREENING OF DETROIT — $800,670 · EnvironmentTHE GREENING OF …FRIENDS OF THE DETROIT RIVER — $776,750 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE D…American Forests — $470,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $450,000 · Environment+9 more — $1,538,000 · Environment+9 moreFOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE — $3,000,000 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION …MIDTOWN DETROIT INC — $680,000 · Community ImprovementMIDTOWN DET…BELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY — $675,200 · Community ImprovementBELLE ISLE …WARRENCONNER DEVELOPMENT COALITION — $600,000 · Community ImprovementWARRENCONNE…METROPOLITAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $500,000 · Community ImprovementMETROPOLITA…THE DELTA INSTITUTE — $465,000 · Community ImprovementDEVELOP DETROIT INC — $350,000 · Community ImprovementDetroit Future City — $322,250 · Community Improvement+14 more — $2,168,926 · Community Improvement+14 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $5,145,250 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES — $1,000,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHEAST…COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS — $880,000 · PhilanthropyCOUNCIL O…+3 more — $154,250 · PhilanthropyCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $2,487,130 · EducationINFORUM — $1,339,012 · EducationLAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY — $450,000 · EducationMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER — $175,000 · EducationCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES — $173,750 · Education+4 more — $205,000 · EducationALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $3,915,000 · HealthDETROITERS WORKING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE — $290,100 · HealthGREEN & HEALTHY HOMES INITIATIVE INC — $195,000 · Health
Other$34,681,955Arts & Culture$16,677,900Environment$13,060,437Community Improvement$8,761,376Philanthropy$7,179,500Education$4,829,892Health$4,400,100

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $5,145,250 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $3,915,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE — $3,000,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA — $2,955,340 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC — $2,750,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $2,684,460 over 5y, 89% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $2,645,050 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $2,487,130 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL — $2,431,202 over 6y, 24% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $2,100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetECOLOGY CENTER — $1,872,500 over 6y, 16% of budgetMICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL — $1,592,470 over 6y, 12% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $1,453,220 over 6y, 10% of budgetINFORUM — $1,339,012 over 5y, 18% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,250,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ROUGE — $1,249,145 over 6y, 20% of budgetDETROIT OPERA — $1,155,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetCLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL — $1,009,400 over 5y, 26% of budgetNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT CHAMBER WINDS INC — $990,890 over 6y, 32% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $950,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS — $880,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetGreat Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc — $870,300 over 6y, 13% of budgetTHE GREENING OF DETROIT — $800,670 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetCRANBROOK PROJECT — $800,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $800,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DETROIT RIVER — $776,750 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN MI HEALTH ASSOCIATION — $771,800 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS — $725,425 over 4y, 62% of budgetMIDTOWN DETROIT INC — $680,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetBELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY — $675,200 over 6y, 17% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES — $672,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetCULTURESOURCE — $668,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetTHE ARTS LEAGUE OF MICHIGAN — $654,000 over 3y, 47% of budgetWARRENCONNER DEVELOPMENT COALITION — $600,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetDETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $585,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $500,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetGREAT LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTE — $480,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetAmerican Forests — $470,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE DELTA INSTITUTE — $465,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $450,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY — $450,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE — $411,250 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetMICHIGAN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $400,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetDEVELOP DETROIT INC — $350,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST — $350,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDetroit Future City — $322,250 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetSIGNAL RETURN INC — $317,500 over 6y, 20% of budget
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds HURON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC ↗
  • Who funds INFORUM ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROUGE ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
  • Who funds Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State ↗
  • Who funds CLINTON RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC SPACES ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT CHAMBER WINDS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network and Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE GREENING OF DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds CRANBROOK PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DETROIT RIVER ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEASTERN MI HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS ↗
  • Who funds MIDTOWN DETROIT INC ↗
  • Who funds BELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
  • Who funds CULTURESOURCE ↗

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.

The Kresge FoundationCommunity Foundation …Hudson-Webber Foundat…Dte Energy FoundationThe Skillman Foundati…Charles Stewart Mott …CulturesourceThe Ralph C Wilson Jr…Max M & Marjorie S Fi…United Way for Southe…The Gilbert Family Fo…Ford Philanthropy
The Kresge FoundationMI125.6× affinity85 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kresge Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Hudson-Webber Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Culturesource · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Inc · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Gilbert Family Foundation · Ford Philanthropy

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 Fred & Barbara Erb Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Center for Watershed Protection Inc — 64% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 276 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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