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The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k13 grants · $389k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $654k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION | $193,965 |
| MOVEMENT VOTER FUND | $100,000 |
| PLANET DETROIT | $75,000 |
| BLACK LEADERS DETROIT | $75,000 |
| ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS | $60,000 |
| BIRTH DETROIT | $50,000 |
| GIRLS GROUP | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL COALITION FOR COMMUNITY CAPITAL | $40,000 |
| GROWING HOPE | $40,000 |
| DETROIT JEWS FOR JUSTICE | $40,000 |
| PEOPLE IN EDUCATION (ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS) | $40,000 |
| GRACE IN ACTION COLLECTIVES | $35,000 |
| ECOLOGY CENTER INC | $35,000 |
| MI ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COALITION | $30,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 4 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k 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
GIRLS GROUP5× · 2020–2024 · $290k · revenue +94%
INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT4× · 2020–2023 · $185k · revenue +86%
BIRTH DETROIT INC3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- DCDETROIT COMMUNITY WEALTH FUNDone grant, 2020 · $50k
- DRDETROIT RECORDINGS STUDIOBRYCE (C2BE)one grant, 2023 · $50k
- TJTHE JOY PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $41k
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.
The Detroit Justice Center works alongside communities to create economic opportunities, transform the justice system, and promote equitable and just cities.
DBCFSN works to build self-reliance and food security in Detroits black community by influencing public policy promoting urban agriculture, promoting healthy eating and encouraging youth to pursue careers in food related fields.
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…
To build the political and economic power of low and moderate-income detroiters of color through neighborhood-driven community organizing and civic engagement in order to change public policy and communities for the better.
Dream of Detroit is combining community organizing with strategic housing and land development to build a healthy community and empower a marginalized neighborhood on the Westside of Detroit.
New detroit inc (the corporation) is a coalition of leaders working to achieve racial understanding and racial equity in metropolitan detroit. the corporations principal source of revenue is from grants and contributions.
Michigan Liberation is dedicated to the leadership development of community members and creation of effective campaigns to advance racial, gender and economic justice in Michigan
Michigan roundtable for just communities is a racial and social justice organization whose purpose is eradicate racism, discrimination, and systemic inequities by cultivating multigenerational just and beloved communities.
The greening of detroit's mission is the sustainable growth of a healthy urban community through trees, green spaces, healthy living, education, training and job opportunities.
Endeavor Detroit is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Michigan and the wider Great Lakes region, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in the…
Our mission is to revitalize and re-engage the community by reconnecting to the Earth through land stewardship, food sovereignty, sustainability, and herbalism.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Jews for Justice and the most unlike its peers is Mighty Real Queer Detroit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 11 years old; the field is 13. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 34 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 ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS GROUP ↗
- Who funds Detroit Jews for Justice ↗
- Who funds COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BIRTH DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK LEADERS DETROIT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COALITION FOR COMMUNITY CAPITAL NC3 ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COALITION ↗
- Who funds GROWING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT VOTER FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds GRACE IN ACTION COLLECTIVES ↗
- Who funds METRO DETROIT BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Nonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc ↗
- Who funds Northend Christian Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds FEEDOM FREEDOM GROWERS NON PROFIT SERVICE CORP ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE GENERATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Mighty Real Queer Detroit ↗
- Who funds SOULARDARITY ↗
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 · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · Allied Media Projects Inc · Dte Energy Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · McGregor Fund · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr 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 organization The Patrice K Aaron Family 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.
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