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The Kresge Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$170M
Granted FY2024still arriving
800
Grants FY2024still arriving
39
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$296MEducation$201MPhilanthropy$147MEnvironment$116MArts & Culture$79MHealth$62MHousing & Shelter$60MHuman Services$55MOther$0
02FY2024 · 800 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k77 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k490 grants · $59M
  • $250k+212 grants · $109M
$140,000
Median grant
39
States reached
$4.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR DETROITS FUTURE$5,000,000
THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND$4,406,874
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN$2,830,000
VOSE RIVER CHARITABLE FUND$2,700,000
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION$2,400,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC$2,150,000
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT$2,000,000
MARYGROVE CONSERVANCY SUPPORT CORPORATION$2,000,000
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INDIAN AFFAIRS$2,000,000
COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES$1,823,000
CULTURESOURCE$1,757,250
ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC$1,666,000
M-1 RAIL$1,600,000
DETROIT FUTURE CITY$1,400,000
URBAN INSTITUTE$1,126,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $35.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $300k → 9%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $300k → 21%ALLIANCE FOR STRONG FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES INC: $500k → 17%SOURCE STUDIO INC: $300k → 15%VOICE OF CALVARY MINISTRIES: $350k → 23%AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $700k → 7%THE VILLAGE ARTS AND HUMANITIES: $400k → 22%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $300k → 9%ALLIANCE FOR STRONG FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES INC: $500k → 17%LATINO MEMPHIS INC: $460k → 17%COMMUNITY CREDIT LAB: $485k → 9%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $310k → 23%AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $620k → 7%MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC: $300k → 20%MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $300k → 9%ALLIANCE FOR STRONG FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES INC: $500k → 17%LATINO MEMPHIS: $360k → 17%COMMUNITY CREDIT LAB: $364k → 9%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $425k → 23%AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $500k → 7%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $750k → 23%AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $474k → 7%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $575k → 21%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $375k → 23%AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $450k → 7%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $493k → 19%AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $420k → 7%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $400k → 19%POSSIBILITY LABS: $350k → 10%AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $400k → 7%AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $321k → 7%SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $400k → 16%SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $400k → 16%UPTOGETHER: $310k → 10%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $1.3M → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $1.2M → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $750k → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $750k → 17%LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $750k → 17%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $600k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $600k → 21%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $401k → 21%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $325k → 10%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $305k → 10%DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $500k → 21%AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $630k → 14%TRANSFORMING POWER FUND: $352k → 21%AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $337k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of The Kresge Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in MI; by stated purpose, 29%.

The Kresge Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1B · 1218 repeat orgs$68M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

1218 repeat relationships: 526 still active in FY2024, 692 since wound down; 95 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1218
627

Total granted

$1.1B
$54M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+28%

Still filing today

81%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MC
    MARYGROVE CONSERVANCY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $17M · revenue +190% · 75% of their budget
  • INVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +117%
  • COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $16M · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • RA
    REGIONAL AREA INITIAL LINK
    one grant, 2017 · $6.0M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
    one grant, 2022 · $2.5M
  • LI
    LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY
    one grant, 2023 · $1.1M
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
3
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
4
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
5
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…

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6
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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7
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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8
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
11
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
12
Enterprise Community Investment Inc

All our efforts support our strategic goals to increase housing supply, advance racial equity and build resilience and upward mobility.the organization raises private capital through investment and by forming effective partnerships.…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Catalyst Inc; the most unlike its peers is Plymouth Scholars Pto. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

1557 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. 1557 of the 2,000 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.

155
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
407
Early backer (in before they grew)
1503/1557
Grantees still filing
1087/1557
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE: $40,000,000 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S F…INVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION: $16,562,610 · Community ImprovementINVEST DETROIT FOUNDATIONENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $13,392,000 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTN…Detroit Future City: $12,672,500 · Community ImprovementDetroit Future CityLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $9,788,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT …POLICYLINK: $9,605,000 · Community ImprovementPOLICYLINKWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: $6,412,500 · Community Improvement+26 more: $66,463,366 · Community Improvement+26 moreMARYGROVE CONSERVANCY: $17,116,099 · EducationMARYGROVE CONSER…COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $15,595,350 · EducationCOLLEGE FOR CREA…EDUCATION COMMISSION OF THE STATES: $6,215,000 · EducationEDUCATION COMMIS…LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY: $6,150,000 · EducationLINCOLN INSTITUT…MARYGROVE CONSERVANCY SUPPORT CORPORATION: $6,000,000 · EducationMARYGROVE CONSER…NATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORK: $5,652,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $5,359,675 · EducationMICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK: $4,156,500 · EducationNATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC: $4,100,000 · EducationACHIEVING THE DREAM INC: $3,648,000 · Education+15 more: $33,258,169 · Education+15 moreMARYGROVE COLLEGE: $13,730,200 · OtherMARYGROVE COLLEGEM-1 RAIL: $12,600,000 · OtherM-1 RAILDAISA ENTERPRISES LLC: $7,967,656 · Other+81 more: $200,779,815 · Other+81 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $17,666,550 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOU…THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $16,686,272 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACKBAUD…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $12,141,456 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER P…UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $7,088,811 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WO…THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $5,190,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER N…Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $3,650,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER: $3,454,500 · PhilanthropyCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation: $3,419,000 · Philanthropy+10 more: $19,381,720 · Philanthropy+10 moreNEW VENTURE FUND: $15,431,667 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE…URBAN SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS NETWORK: $7,388,800 · EnvironmentURBAN SUSTA…INSTITUTE FOR MARKET TRANSFORMATION: $3,920,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $3,661,120 · EnvironmentTHE FUNDERS NETWORK INC: $3,483,500 · EnvironmentHEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM: $3,297,000 · EnvironmentUS WATER ALLIANCE: $3,234,000 · EnvironmentEcoAdapt: $2,975,000 · EnvironmentDEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL: $2,952,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUND: $2,825,000 · EnvironmentISLAND PRESS: $2,651,500 · EnvironmentClean Energy Group Inc: $2,625,000 · EnvironmentSMART GROWTH AMERICA: $2,562,500 · EnvironmentWest Harlem Environmental Action Inc: $2,560,000 · Environment+8 more: $14,470,100 · Environment+8 moreAMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $5,396,750 · Human ServicesLIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $4,900,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $4,285,500 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $3,096,831 · Human ServicesARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $2,905,400 · Human ServicesSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,736,500 · Human ServicesSOCIAL CURRENT INC: $2,500,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $2,345,000 · Human ServicesURBAN STRATEGIES INC: $1,915,000 · Human ServicesCOMMON MARKET PHILADELPHIA INC: $1,700,000 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $1,570,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONAL: $1,516,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES: $1,465,000 · Human ServicesTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $9,502,431 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $9,167,630 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $6,555,884 · Social ScienceTHE INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY: $3,510,000 · Social ScienceTHE ULI FOUNDATION: $1,775,000 · Social Science
Community Improvement$174,895,976Education$107,250,793Other$235,077,671Philanthropy$88,678,309Environment$74,037,187Human Services$36,331,981Social Science$30,510,945

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE: $40,000,000 over 6y, 38% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $17,666,550 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetMARYGROVE CONSERVANCY: $17,116,099 over 6y, 75% of budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $16,686,272 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetINVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION: $16,562,610 over 8y, 23% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $15,595,350 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $15,431,667 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMARYGROVE COLLEGE: $13,730,200 over 3y, 47% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $13,392,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetDetroit Future City: $12,672,500 over 8y, 74% of budgetM-1 RAIL: $12,600,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $12,141,456 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $9,788,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetPOLICYLINK: $9,605,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $9,502,431 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $9,167,630 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetVOSE RIVER CHARITABLE FUND: $7,475,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetURBAN SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS NETWORK: $7,388,800 over 7y, 34% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $7,088,811 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $6,555,884 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: $6,412,500 over 4y, 43% of budgetEDUCATION COMMISSION OF THE STATES: $6,215,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetLINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY: $6,150,000 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetCULTURESOURCE: $6,014,900 over 8y, 65% of budgetNATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORK: $5,652,000 over 8y, 31% of budgetMIDTOWN DETROIT INC: $5,560,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetAMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $5,396,750 over 8y, 11% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $5,359,675 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $5,190,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetMAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC: $5,003,000 over 8y, 53% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $4,924,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetLIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $4,900,000 over 5y, 56% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $4,820,000 over 7y, 7.7% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $4,590,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetRACE FORWARD: $4,574,750 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: $4,425,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $4,285,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetNeighborhood Funders Group: $4,191,400 over 8y, 18% of budgetMICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK: $4,156,500 over 8y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE INC: $4,100,000 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetDOWNTOWN DETROIT PARTNERSHIP INC: $4,094,999 over 8y, 22% of budgetLOW INCOME INVESTMENT FUND: $3,950,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR MARKET TRANSFORMATION: $3,920,000 over 8y, 51% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $3,661,120 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $3,650,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetACHIEVING THE DREAM INC: $3,648,000 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY: $3,510,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetTHE FUNDERS NETWORK INC: $3,483,500 over 8y, 16% of budget
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 FOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds MARYGROVE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
  • Who funds INVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds MARYGROVE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Detroit Future City ↗
  • Who funds M-1 RAIL ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds POLICYLINK ↗
  • Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds VOSE RIVER CHARITABLE FUND ↗
  • Who funds URBAN SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION COMMISSION OF THE STATES ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY ↗
  • Who funds CULTURESOURCE ↗
  • Who funds MARYGROVE CONSERVANCY SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds MIDTOWN DETROIT INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAYOR'S INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN GOVERNMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
  • Who funds RACE FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES ↗

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.

The Fred & Barbara Er…Hudson-Webber Foundat…The Skillman Foundati…Surdna Foundation IncFreedom Together Foun…McGregor FundCommunity Foundation …United Way for Southe…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…CulturesourceMax M & Marjorie S Fi…The Gilbert Family Fo…
The Fred & Barbara Erb Family FoundationMI125.6× affinity85 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Hudson-Webber Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Surdna Foundation Inc · Freedom Together Foundation · McGregor Fund · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Culturesource · Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Inc · The Gilbert Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Kresge Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kresge Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Institute for Sustainable Communities: 100% of income from government
  • Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Center for Urban Families Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Third Sector Capital Partners Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Community Catalyst Inc: 15% of income from government
  • National Association of Community Health Centers Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Social Finance Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Achieving the Dream Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Anthropocene Alliance: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home