· Private foundation
The Henry Ford II Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $50,000 |
| ACLU FUND OF MICHIGAN | $50,000 |
| JDRF | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN | $50,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| HENRY FORD ESTATE | $25,000 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| DETROIT PUBLIC TELEVISION | $10,000 |
| DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
- DZDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY6× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +39%
- HFHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM4× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +48%
- TETHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN6× · 2018–2023 · $935k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- HFHENRY FORD ESTATE FAIR LANEone grant, 2017 · $575k
- JDJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $500k
- MSMETRO SOLUTIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $165k · revenue +26%
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.
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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Creating healthy communities - together
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Idaho Base Camp Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 41 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
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 DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds METRO SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT 300 CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD ESTATE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAY DETROIT ↗
- Who funds The Rogosin Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO BASE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTMOOR ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds 826 MICHIGAN 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 · The Skillman Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Hudson-Webber Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · WK Kellogg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 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.
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% 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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