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The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$194k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $389k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $654k
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GROWING HOPE$40,000
DETROIT JEWS FOR JUSTICE$40,000
PEOPLE IN EDUCATION (ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS)$40,000
NATIONAL COALITION FOR COMMUNITY CAPITAL$40,000
GRACE IN ACTION COLLECTIVES$35,000
ECOLOGY CENTER INC$35,000
MI ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COALITION$30,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FREEDOM HOUSE: $25k → 21%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 20 repeat orgs$496k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
9

Total granted

$2.5M
$281k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+85%

Still filing today

80%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • GIRLS GROUP
    5× · 2020–2024 · $290k · revenue +94%
  • INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT
    4× · 2020–2023 · $185k · revenue +86%
  • BIRTH DETROIT INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • DC
    DETROIT COMMUNITY WEALTH FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • DR
    DETROIT RECORDINGS STUDIOBRYCE (C2BE)
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • TJ
    THE JOY PROJECT
    one grant, 2023 · $41k
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
Detroit Justice Center

The Detroit Justice Center works alongside communities to create economic opportunities, transform the justice system, and promote equitable and just cities.

Crime & Legal
2
Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network

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.

Food & Nutrition
3
Detroit Food Policy Council

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Good Jobs Now Inc

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.

—
5
Dream of Detroit

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.

Human Services
6
New Detroit Inc

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.

—
7
About Face Detroit
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8
Action for Liberation

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

Civil Rights
9
Michigan Roundtable for Just Communities

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.

Religion
10
The Greening of Detroit

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.

Environment
11
Endeavor Detroit

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…

Community Improvement
12
Workin Rootz

Our mission is to revitalize and re-engage the community by reconnecting to the Earth through land stewardship, food sovereignty, sustainability, and herbalism.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Jews for Justice; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 34 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACLU FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherACLU FOUNDATIONALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS BBA: $81,000 · OtherALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS BBAPLANET DETROIT: $75,000 · OtherPLANET DETROITPEOPLE IN EDUCATION (ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS): $60,000 · OtherPEOPLE IN EDUCATION (ALLIED MEDIA PR…DETROIT COMMUNITY WEALTH FUND: $50,000 · OtherDETROIT RECORDINGS STUDIOBRYCE (C2BE): $50,000 · OtherMETRO DETROIT BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $50,000 · OtherTHE JOY PROJECT: $40,800 · OtherBIRTH DETROIT INC: $150,382 · OtherBIRTH DETROIT INCBLACK LEADERS DETROIT: $150,000 · OtherBLACK LEADERS DETROITCOMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK: $75,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK+6 more: $142,975 · Other+6 moreALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $340,905 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJEC…INSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT: $185,000 · Arts & CultureINSIDEOUT LITERARY …+1 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $193,965 · Community ImprovementCOMMON COUNSEL FO…MOVEMENT VOTER FUND: $100,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT VOTER FU…CENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE: $100,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUN…Nonprofit Enterprise at Work Inc: $44,000 · Community ImprovementNonprofit Enterpr…Northend Christian Community Development Corporation: $40,000 · Community ImprovementNorthend Christia…GIRLS GROUP: $290,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS GROUPGROWING HOPE INC: $115,000 · Youth DevelopmentGROWING HOPE INCGRACE IN ACTION COLLECTIVES: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentGRACE IN ACTION …Detroit Jews for Justice: $255,000 · Civil RightsDetroit J…MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COALITION: $120,000 · EnvironmentECOLOGY CENTER: $105,000 · EnvironmentSOULARDARITY: $10,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL COALITION FOR COMMUNITY CAPITAL NC3: $145,000 · EducationFEEDOM FREEDOM GROWERS NON PROFIT SERVICE CORP: $30,000 · Education
Other$1,025,157Arts & Culture$540,905Community Improvement$477,965Youth Development$475,000Civil Rights$255,000Environment$235,000Education$175,000

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 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 budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $193,965 over 1y, 0.4% 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
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.

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 …WK Kellogg FoundationThe Skillman Foundati…United Way for Southe…The Kresge FoundationAllied Media Projects…DTE Energy FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…McGregor FundHarry a and Margaret …Ann Arbor Area Commun…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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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