· Private foundation
Thomas J & Ruth E Grimaldi 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of THOMAS J & RUTH E GRIMALDI FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SACRED HEART SEMINARY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT | $5,000 |
| U OF D JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| KETTERING UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| HOLY NAME SEED FUND | $5,000 |
| ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART | $5,000 |
| MARIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $4,500 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK | $4,400 |
| DETROIT RESCUE MISSION | $4,400 |
| CCSEM | $4,100 |
| CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN | $4,000 |
| IHM SISTERS | $3,800 |
| ADRIAN DOMINICAN SISTERS | $3,800 |
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 (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
38 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- KUKettering University8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +42%
COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +23%- OHOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC7× · 2018–2024 · $12k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- ADADRIAN DOMINICAN SISTERSone grant, 2017 · $5k
- HIHAVEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +42%
- OHOPERATION HOMEFRONTone grant, 2017 · $2k
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 Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Hospice of Michigan, Inc. meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.
We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater cincinnati offers a community of compassion, support and the comforts of home to families with critically ill children, steps away from the medical care they need.
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
Midland's Open Door (MOD) operates two crisis shelters, one for women and children and one for men. MOD's programs are designed to meet the immediate needs of homeless individuals by providing a safe and loving environment where each…
Henry ford health macomb hospital (hfmh) is an affiliate of henry ford health system dba henry ford health ("hf health") serving the northeastern metropolitan detroit michigan communities. as an integrated component of one of the nation's…
Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services is called to express the healing ministry of Jesus Christ by providing behavioral health services with professional excellence, Christian integrity, and compassion.
To honor the dignity, restore hope and create lasting change for homeless and those at risk in the green bay area.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forgotten Harvest Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Leos Soup Kitchen. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
13 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. 13 of the 47 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 Kettering University ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARY'S MANTLE ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HAVEN 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Catholic Foundation of Michigan · The Sehn Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · James M and Louise C Roche Foundation · Pat and Gerry Carroll Charitable Foundation · Thomas and Carol Cracchiolo Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Thomas J & Ruth E Grimaldi 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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