How much did THE HENRY FORD II FUND grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of THE HENRY FORD II FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

campus

2020

juvenile diabetesdiabetes researchcapitalforgotten harvestemergency

2021

leadership circlecapitalendowmentforgotten harvest

2022

detroit artsforgotten harvest

2023

capitalforgotten harvest

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k6 grants · $120k
$50k–250k8 grants · $510k
$250k+1 grant · $1.0M

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$35M

Total assets

Largest grants

HENRY FORD HEALTH$1,000,000
GROSSE POINTE MEMORIAL CHURCH$100,000
THE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$100,000
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL$60,000
JDRF$50,000
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$50,000
ACLU FUND OF MICHIGAN$50,000
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN$50,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
DETROIT PBS$40,000
HENRY FORD ESTATE$25,000
FORGOTTEN HARVEST$25,000
DETROIT PUBLIC TELEVISION$10,000
DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN$10,000

02The need

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 (FY18–23, $960k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.6M · 25 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.6M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+46%

Still filing today

52%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

DZ
DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
6× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +39%
TE
THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN
6× · 2018–2023 · $935k · revenue +120%
FORGOTTEN HARVEST
6× · 2019–2024 · $625k · revenue +32%

Funded once

HF
HENRY FORD ESTATE FAIR LANE
one grant, 2017 · $575k
MS
METRO SOLUTIONSgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $165k · revenue +46%
MM
MOTOWN MUSEUM
one grant, 2023 · $150k

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.

Detroit Opera

The mission of detroit opera is to be one of the outstanding opera companies in the unted states and, in particular, to serve as a major cultural resource to the city of detroit and the state of michigan.

Arts & Culture

Detroit Regional Chamber

The detroit regional chamber carries out its mission to power the economy of southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy, economic development, and talent initiatives. the chamber improves the image and quality of life in the…

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health

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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Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about enviromental issues.

Environment

Delta Dental Fund

See schedule o 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.

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Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation

Detroit employment solutions corporation (desc) is part of the michigan works! system, which is a network of 16 workforce agencies located throughout the state. this system helps residents find new jobs, retain employment, and advance…

Employment

Downtown Detroit Partnership Inc

To advance detroit by driving engagement, development and programs that benefit businesses, residents and visitors throughout the downtowns's urban core.

Community Improvement

Alumni Association of the University of Michigan

The Association is an independent worldwide organization that nurtures lifelong relationships with and among current and future Michigan alumni. As a committed partner of the University the Association offers programs of relevance and…

Education

University of Denver

A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education

Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promote economic growth in the city of detroit

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Michigan Biotechnology Institute

Bridging the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial (continued in sch o) application. partnering to de-risk, develop and scale-up discoveries into commercially-viable technology packages.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Community Foundation for Southeast. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 19. 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/22

the rest of the field

12%

5,717/48,228

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.

05the grantee network

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

16/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$7,364,890Animals$1,441,666Human Services$960,000Arts & Culture$808,000Health$724,740Food & Nutrition$625,000Recreation & Sports$119,663

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.

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.

Dte Energy FoundationMI19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dte Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast · Edsel B Ford II Fund · Hudson-Webber Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Ford Motor Company Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · William & Martha Ford Fund · Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation

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 organisation THE HENRY FORD II FUND 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: IDAHO BASECAMP INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 273427884 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on IDAHO BASECAMP INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Henry Ford II Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Henry Ford II Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE HENRY FORD II FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Henry Ford II Fund?

More from the funding graph

THE HENRY FORD II FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Henry Ford II Fund?

More from the funding graph