· Private foundation
The Holley Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $197k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MACC DEVELOPMENT | $40,000 |
| READ TO A CHILD | $36,000 |
| DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM | $30,000 |
| GLEANERS COMM FOOD BANK OF SE MICH | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
| AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MI | $20,000 |
| INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS | $17,000 |
| DETROIT CREATIVITY PROJECT | $14,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SE MICH | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $35k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 16% of The Holley Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 71%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BBBEYOND BASICS6× · 2017–2022 · $265k · revenue +343%
- DBDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM3× · 2022–2024 · $85k · revenue +91%
INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT5× · 2020–2024 · $69k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- WSWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $15k
- HFHANTZ FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +341%
- HCHOPE COMMUNITY OUTREACH & DEVELOPMEone grant, 2017 · $11k
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.
The organization works with k-12, higher education and other community partners to design and implement programs to improve rates of college persistence and completion.
Helping families and neighborhoods succeed by providing a place and support to assure kids ages 0-5 are school ready and families are healthy and stable.
CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.
Progressionista serves Detroit girls ages 8-12 with literacy and mentorship programming and provides annually 250 books in total for participants to keep, in-person masterclasses with women professionals, hands-on career projects, and…
The organization provides educational management services to public school academies in the State of Michigan
Reading works is dedicated to raising the level of adult literacy in metro detroit and promoting the idea that readng works in the family and in the workplace.
To promote and enhance the city of detroit's cultural growth, all forms of literacy, an interest in books, and other forms of human record and to establish cooperative relationships and programs with the detroit public library and other…
Local circles offers young detroiters an employment opportunity in youth- led research. by employing youth to do research, local circles intervenes on two simultaneous social issues facing young detroiters today: youth unemployment and…
The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…
Progress Michigan Education is a non-partisan, nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that promotes solutions for michigan through independent research, public education and the use of new media and internet outreach campaigns.
Detroit regional chamber foundation, inc. (the "foundation") is dedicated to growing programs or initiatives that are important to ensuring the detroit region's economy is one of the fastest growing in the u.s.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 24 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 MACK AVENUE COMMUNITY CHURCH COMM DEVE CORP ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BASICS ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT CREATIVITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds READ TO A CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds Detroit Parent Network ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HANTZ FOUNDATION 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 · The Skillman Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Holley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Holley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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