· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SACRED HEART SEMINARY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART | $5,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT | $5,000 |
| MARIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| U OF D JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| KETTERING UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| HOLY NAME SEED FUND | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $4,500 |
| DETROIT RESCUE MISSION | $4,400 |
| GLEANERS FOOD BANK | $4,400 |
| CCSEM | $4,100 |
| CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN | $4,000 |
| IHM SISTERS | $3,800 |
| ADRIAN DOMINICAN SISTERS | $3,800 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KUKettering University8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +42%
- DRDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries8× · 2017–2024 · $36k · revenue +20%
COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- ADADRIAN DOMINICAN SISTERSone grant, 2017 · $5k
- OHOPERATION HOMEFRONTone grant, 2017 · $2k
- HIHAVEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +42%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 HAVEN INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas J & Ruth E Grimaldi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas J & Ruth E Grimaldi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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