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Trott 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.

$206k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$728kHealth$312kCrime & Legal$242kHuman Services$43kPublic Benefit$36kArts & Culture$30kFood & Nutrition$19kYouth Development$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $148k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
CARE HOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY$25,000
ECKERD COLLEGE$25,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$25,000
MAYO CLINIC$25,000
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM$12,500
DETROIT COUNTY DAY SCHOOL$10,000
NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY$7,500
CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY$5,000
MICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION$5,000
CARE HOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY$5,000
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
BALDWIN PUBLIC LIBRARY TRUST$5,000
CARE HOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY$5,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EAGLES FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 21%THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN: $1k → 10%EAGLES FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 21%YOUTH HAVEN: $500 → 10%THE GREAT DECORATE: $1k → 8%ANGEL'S PLACE: $250 → 8%EAGLES FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 8%EAGLES FOR CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $3k → 8%EAGLES FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 8%EAGLES FOR CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $1k → 8%EAGLES FOR CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

MN
MI
NY
MA
CA
MD
KS
NC
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 24 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
28

Total granted

$1.2M
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+2%

Still filing today

71%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • EC
    Eckerd College
    8× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +30%
  • CO
    CAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $242k · revenue +48%
  • CU
    CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $89k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • VISTA MARIAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +84%
  • AO
    ALL OF US FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
2
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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3
Detroit Regional Chamber

The chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.

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4
Delta Dental Fund

Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.

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5
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
6
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
7
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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8
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
9
The Greater Detroit Health Transition Company

Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…

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10
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
11
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
12
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eagles for Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyPublic Library OperationsCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Independent K-12 SchoolsJewish Community Organizati…Lgbtq+ Community SupportCancer Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsElementary Literacy TutoringFood Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%7%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr15%16%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr18%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr15%1%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr18%53%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/47
the rest of the field
12%
6,511/53,809

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.

04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
26/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Eckerd College — $300,000 · EducationEckerd CollegeCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $89,000 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITYDUKE UNIVERSITY — $32,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYBALDWIN PUBLIC LIBRARY TRUST — $26,000 · EducationBALDWIN PUBLIC LIBRARY TRUSTDETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $25,000 · Education+5 more — $11,200 · EducationWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL — $115,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHO…DUKE UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S LAW CLINIC — $101,000 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY CHILDREN'S LAW …COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATIONCRANBROOK SCHOOLS — $18,000 · OtherGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $17,000 · Other+28 more — $129,845 · Other+28 moreBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $144,000 · HealthBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUN…MAYO CLINIC — $75,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM — $12,500 · Health+7 more — $27,300 · Health+7 moreCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC — $242,200 · Crime & LegalCAREHOUSE OF OAKLA…EAGLES FOR CHILDREN — $18,000 · Human ServicesALL OF US FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human Services+4 more — $2,750 · Human ServicesFORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS — $21,500 · Public BenefitDETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureGreat Lakes Center for the Arts — $6,050 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & Culture
Education$483,200Other$405,845Health$258,800Crime & Legal$242,200Human Services$30,750Public Benefit$21,500Arts & Culture$19,050

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEckerd College — $300,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCAREHOUSE OF OAKLAND COUNTY INC — $242,200 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $144,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $89,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALDWIN PUBLIC LIBRARY TRUST — $26,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetDETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS — $21,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEAGLES FOR CHILDREN — $18,000 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVISTA MARIA — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN PRESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION — $10,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC THEATRE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALL OF US FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetLITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY — $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RAINBOW CONNECTION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEDIATRIC INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC — $6,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetGreat Lakes Center for the Arts — $6,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH HOSPICE & CHAPLAINCY NETWORK — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRUTH ELLIS CENTER — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHADES OF PINK FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIP OF THE MITT JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN — $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GREAT DECORATE — $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Oakland County Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAP & CONQUER INC — $800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLF ASSOC OF MICH FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND BASICS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS' PLACE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST INDEPENDENT RETAILERS FOUNDATION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Dte Energy FoundationEdward C and Linda Dr…Charles Stewart Mott …United Jewish Foundat…Malcolm and Beth Lowe…Ford PhilanthropyThe Kresge FoundationS Evan and Gwen Weine…Kegley Family Foundat…Aa Van Elslander Foun…Fca Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI28.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · The Kresge Foundation · S Evan and Gwen Weiner Family Foundation · Kegley Family Foundation · Aa Van Elslander Foundation · Fca 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 organization Trott 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
  • Youth Haven Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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