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Wayne and Joan Webber Foundation at a glance

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Wayne and Joan Webber 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.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$6.7MArts & Culture$6.1MEducation$6.0MFood & Nutrition$1.8MHuman Services$1.5MPhilanthropy$645kReligion$593kYouth Development$300kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $475k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $610k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.8M
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Regents of the University of Michigan$1,000,000
Gleaners Community Food Bank$677,620
BEYOND BASICS$592,300
LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL$275,000
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$250,000
NEW DAY FOUNDATION$150,000
Living Water$150,000
Salvation Army$150,000
Various Elementary Schools$59,722
RACQUET UP DETROIT$50,000
St Jude's Children's Research Hospital$50,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
GESU CATHOLIC SCHOOL$35,000
DEWAYNE R HAYES FOUNDATION$35,000
Vets Returning Home$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $592k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Pope Francis Center: $25k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $22k → 21%Pope Francis Center: $10k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $10k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $10k → 21%MACOMB FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 10%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $5k → 21%Benzie Senior Resources: $5k → 10%WERTZ WARRIORS: $10k → 10%WERTZ WARRIORS: $5k → 10%WERTZ WARRIORS: $5k → 10%WERTZ WARRIORS: $5k → 10%MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%WIGS 4 KIDS: $101k → 10%WIGS 4 KIDS: $35k → 10%WIGS 4 KIDS: $27k → 10%WIGS 4 KIDS: $27k → 10%WIGS 4 KIDS: $26k → 10%WIGS 4 KIDS: $25k → 10%WIGS 4 KIDS: $25k → 10%WIGS 4 KIDS: $25k → 10%WIGS 4 KIDS: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 41 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
17

Total granted

$23M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+72%

Still filing today

51%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +46%
  • BB
    BEYOND BASICS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +343% · 26% of their budget
  • BA
    BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $660k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • UR
    URBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +75%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CS MOTT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2018 · $200k
  • CM
    CS MOTT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
Michigan Enviromental Council

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

Environment
3
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
4
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.

—
5
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.…

—
6
Trinity Health - Michigan

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.

Health
7
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
8
Detroit Athletic Club

To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart of detroit.

—
9
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

—
10
Mymichigan Health

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
11
Michigan Science Center

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.

Education
12
Mymichigan Medical Group

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Yash Gandhi Foundation for Finding a Cure for I-Cell. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 69 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
27/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $2,500,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANMCLAREN MACOMB HOSPITAL: $1,520,000 · OtherMCLAREN MACOMB HOSPITALGESU CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $1,233,746 · OtherGESU CATHOLIC SCHOOLSALVATION ARMY: $875,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL: $700,000 · OtherLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOLMunson Hospital: $500,000 · OtherNEW DAY FOUNDATION: $440,000 · Other+43 more: $3,742,945 · Other+43 moreTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $5,802,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF AR…+1 more: $200,000 · Arts & CultureBEYOND BASICS: $3,197,464 · EducationBEYOND BASICSNew Paradigm for Education Inc: $290,000 · EducationNew Paradigm for…+2 more: $35,000 · EducationHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $600,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $327,250 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $177,000 · Health+2 more: $45,000 · HealthGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $877,620 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $25,000 · Food & NutritionBENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC: $660,000 · ReligionURBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $500,000 · PhilanthropyMOUNT CLEMENS FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN: $35,000 · PhilanthropyVETS RETURNING HOME INC: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$11,511,691Arts & Culture$6,002,000Education$3,522,464Health$1,149,250Food & Nutrition$902,620Religion$660,000Philanthropy$645,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $5,802,000 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetBEYOND BASICS: $3,197,464 over 8y, 26% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $877,620 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC: $660,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $600,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $327,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGAN INC: $315,280 over 8y, 14% of budgetRACQUET UP DETROIT: $280,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetDetroit Historical Society: $200,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $177,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $88,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $82,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMOUNT CLEMENS FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 67% of budgetYMCA of Metropolitan Detroit: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN: $35,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDETROIT CHAPTER 9 OF VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 6y, 40% of budgetVETS RETURNING HOME INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetWERTZ WARRIORS: $25,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYASH GANDHI FOUNDATION FOR FINDING A CURE FOR I-CELL: $15,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Discovery Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINCLUSIVELY FIT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBENZIE SENIOR RESOURCES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSONS MOVEMENT CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budget
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 THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND BASICS ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds BENZIE AREA CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS INC ↗
  • Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds URBAN RENEWAL INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds New Paradigm for Education Inc ↗
  • Who funds RACQUET UP DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE MACOMB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds POPE FRANCIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT CLEMENS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

DTE Energy FoundationCommunity Foundation …Canton Community Foun…Rotary Charities of T…Children's Hospital o…Grand Traverse Region…United Way for Southe…Consumers Energy Foun…WK Kellogg FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…
DTE Energy FoundationMI19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: DTE Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Canton Community Foundation Inc · Rotary Charities of Traverse City · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Consumers Energy Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wayne and Joan Webber Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wayne and Joan Webber Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Wayne and Joan Webber Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wayne and Joan Webber Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 69 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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