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· Private foundation
The Tom Gores Family Foundation
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$180k
Granted FY2024
3
Grants
2
Communities
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Education$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.1MHealth$605kAnimals$75kFood & Nutrition$50kArts & Culture$25kOther$363k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2020
covid
2021
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2022
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2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
- CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY$100,000
- NF FORWARD$50,000
- TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS$30,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 48% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund
Encourage and promote philanthropy and charitable giving.
Philanthropy
2
Detroit Children's Fund
The detroit children's fund is a nonprofit organization that makes high-potential investments to expand successful schools, greatly improve lower performing schools, and discover and develop talented educators so that every child in…
Philanthropy
3
New York Stem Cell Foundation Inc
The new york stem cell foundation ("nyscf") is a not-for-profit organization that was incorporated in the state of new york on may 19, 2005. nyscf's mission is to accelerate cures for the major diseases of our time through stem cell…
Health
4
The Drexel Fund
Education
5
Sharedimpact Foundation
A global donor advised fund providing philanthropists, foundations and family offices with access to social investment expertise.
Philanthropy
6
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
To foster and promote philanthropy across the globe.
Philanthropy
7
Foundation Fighting Blindness
The foundation fighting blindness retinal degeneration fund's mission is to accelerate the translation of retinal laboratory-based research into clinical trials to expedite the commercialization of patient therapies.
Health
8
Michigan Founders Fund
Michigan founders fund (mff) helps entrepreneurs and their teams become active participants in the communities where they operate throughout the state of michigan. mff will provide educational programming and resources that equip…
Philanthropy
9
The Lieber Institute Inc
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
Health
10
Leukemia Research Foundation
To cure leukemia by funding innovative research, and to support patients and families.
Health
11
Lydian Accelerator
Our mission is to bring an end to the long tail of genetic disease
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12
Regenerative Research Foundation
The principal mission of the regenerative research foundation is to develop regenerative stem cell therapies for diseases of the central nervous system (cns): the brain, spinal cord, and retina.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Don't Ever Give Up Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Sterling Donor Advised Fund. 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
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$1,100,000Philanthropy$1,056,000Health$605,000Other$362,500Animals$75,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Arts & Culture$25,000
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 STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUND ↗
- Who funds Operation Graduation ↗
- Who funds DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC ↗
- Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds THE YUNION ↗
- Who funds NF FORWARD ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEARNING LAB VENTURES ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST ↗
- Who funds WORLD OF CHILDREN INC ↗
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.
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA7.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation The Tom Gores 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Operation Graduation.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~9 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 272308036 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Operation Graduation, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 60% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Tom Gores Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Tom Gores Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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