· Private foundation
The Karen & Drew Peslar 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $429k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $110,000 |
| ANGEL'S PLACE | $110,000 |
| DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $100,000 |
| DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $55,000 |
| LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL | $54,320 |
| CRANBROOK INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | $20,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY MICHIGAN CHAPTER | $15,000 |
| MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| MOTOR CITY LYRIC OPERA | $10,000 |
| BEDS 4 KIDS | $10,000 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| POPE FRANCIS CENTER | $10,000 |
| FORGOTTEN HARVEST | $10,000 |
| FURNITURE BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Detroit Historical Society4× · 2020–2023 · $205k · revenue +129%- DZDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +106%
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS4× · 2021–2025 · $160k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SE MIone grant, 2020 · $15k
- CHCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION SEone grant, 2024 · $10k
- HIHARSENS ISLAND-ST CLAIR FLATS HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +41% · 29% of their budget
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.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
The organization is dedicated to preservation of michigan great lakes and waterways, maritime history and culture, and provides maritime education opportunities to the public through permanent and changing exhibits, research library, and…
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
The Historical Society of Michigan will foster in citizens a deeper understanding of and appreciation for all Michigan history through programs and publications; preserve and promote Michigan history through conferences, publications,…
Educate, engage, entertain, and inspire through the power of public media.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Kids On the Go. 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 49 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 17% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 28 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 Historical Society ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' PLACE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE FURNITURE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BEDS 4 KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE PEWABIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON THE GO ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds MOTOR CITY LYRIC OPERA ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BASICS ↗
- Who funds MERCY EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN NATURE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HARSENS ISLAND-ST CLAIR FLATS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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 · Young Woman's Home Association of Detroit Michigan · Aa Van Elslander Foundation · Detroit Industrial School · Dte Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Karen & Drew Peslar 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.
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.