· Private foundation
Van Elslander Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIANNA HOUSE | $125,000 |
| EXPERIENCE CAMPS | $100,000 |
| EMPOWERMENT PLAN | $100,000 |
| BOLDLI | $40,000 |
| ANGEL'S PLACE | $25,000 |
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, $307k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
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.
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Helping families and neighborhoods succeed by providing a place and support to assure kids ages 0-5 are school ready and families are healthy and stable.
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.
Detroit central city community mental health's mission is to achieve wellness in the community by providing an integrated array of mental health, housing and substance abuse services with diginity and respect.
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.…
Ele's place is a nonprofit, community based organization with a mission to create awareness of and support for grieving children and their families. through peer support group programs, ele's place helps children to cope with the death of…
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Empowering people with disabilities by providing services that promote independence, equality and intergration, enhancing their quality of life.
The special olympics movement uses sport as a vehicle for acceptance, respect, inclusion, dignity, and joy. we provide year-round sports training and competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.
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.…
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fisher House Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Little Traverse Conservancy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN'S HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN ↗
- Who funds DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' PLACE ↗
- Who funds SAY DETROIT ↗
- Who funds ROSE HILL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
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: Aa Van Elslander Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organization Van Elslander 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.
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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