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The Worsham Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$136k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Worsham Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving8$14k0%
FY20248$14k25%
FY20238$14k0%
FY20228$14k0%
FY20219$15k22%
FY20209$18k22%
FY20195$10k80%
FY201810$12k60%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$35kHuman Services$24kArts & Culture$19kFood & Nutrition$19kEducation$7kHousing & Shelter$6kEmployment$5kScience & Tech$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Worsham Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFood Gatherers: $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Huron Valley: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHorses' Haven: $13,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetAnn Arbor Hands-On Museum: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budget826 Michigan Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCovenant House Michigan: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity Musical Society: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSociety of Women Engineers Detroit: $5,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetMichigan Animal Rescue League: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDexter Area Museum Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPeace Neighborhood Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWashtenaw Association for Community: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLeslie Science and Nature Center: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMichigan Science Center: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirls Group: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCranbrook Educational Community: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Develop It: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHaven Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSteep Theatre: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAllied Media Projects Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 21.

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 MichiganMI19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Vaughan Foundation · THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (Of R & P Heydon) · DTE Energy Foundation · Duffy Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor Foundation Inc · United Way of Washtenaw County · The Skillman Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 Worsham Family Foundation

How much does The Worsham Family Foundation give?
The Worsham Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $14,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Worsham Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (28%), Human Services (19%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are The Worsham Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Food Gatherers ($19k), Humane Society of Huron Valley ($17k), Horses' Haven ($14k).
Does The Worsham Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Worsham 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 Worsham Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, Vaughan Foundation.
Where is The Worsham Family Foundation based?
The Worsham 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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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