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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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
35%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$40,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$193,965
Organizations funded a year
9 to 20
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$4.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 35% of the organizations The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthEmploymentEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$849k20%
FY202320$716k35%
FY202216$593k38%
FY202111$403k64%
FY20209$430kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$702kCommunity Improvement$667kYouth Development$390kCivil Rights$355kPhilanthropy$274kEnvironment$235kHealth$150kFood & Nutrition$145kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Allied Media Projects Inc$340,90550%
Girls Group$290,00056%
Detroit Jews for Justice$255,000411%
Insideout Literary Arts Project$185,00045%
Birth Detroit Inc$150,38233%
Black Leaders Detroit$150,00043%
National Coalition for Community Capital Nc3$145,000459%
Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition$120,00042%
Growing Hope Inc$115,00035%
Ecology Center$105,00031%
Movement Voter Fund$100,00011%
Center for Community Based Enterprise$100,000229%
Community Action Network$75,00031%
Grace in Action Collectives$70,000210%
Detroit Community Wealth Fund$50,0001n/a
Metro Detroit Black Chamber of Commerce$50,000241%
Nonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc$44,00021%
Northend Christian Community Development Corporation$40,00013%
Feedom Freedom Growers Non Profit Service Corp$30,000116%
Resource Generation Inc$30,00020%
Freedom House Detroit$25,00012%
Mighty Real Queer Detroit$15,000110%
Soulardarity$10,00011%
Irwin House Inc$10,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($485k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAllied Media Projects Inc: $340,905 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGirls Group: $290,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetDetroit Jews for Justice: $255,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetInsideout Literary Arts Project: $185,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetBirth Detroit Inc: $150,382 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBlack Leaders Detroit: $150,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetNational Coalition for Community Capital Nc3: $145,000 over 4y, 59% of budgetMichigan Environmental Justice Coalition: $120,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetGrowing Hope Inc: $115,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetEcology Center: $105,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMovement Voter Fund: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCenter for Community Based Enterprise: $100,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetCommunity Action Network: $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGrace in Action Collectives: $70,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMetro Detroit Black Chamber of Commerce: $50,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetNonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc: $44,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNorthend Christian Community Development Corporation: $40,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFeedom Freedom Growers Non Profit Service Corp: $30,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetResource Generation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFreedom House Detroit: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMighty Real Queer Detroit: $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSoulardarity: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI30.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundation

How much does The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundation give?
The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $1,043,043 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Community Improvement (21%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Allied Media Projects Inc ($341k), Girls Group ($290k), Detroit Jews for Justice ($255k).
Does The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, WK Kellogg Foundation, The Skillman Foundation.
Where is The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundation based?
The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundation is based in MI.

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 34 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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