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Weyerhaeuserday 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY | $250,000 |
| WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| WEYERHAEUSER FAMILY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NEXT GENERATION CHOICES FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC | $20,000 |
| CAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $10,000 |
| BROOKE USA | $10,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY - MICHIGAN CHAPTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 13 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
WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP6× · 2019–2024 · $974k · revenue +72%
DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $750k · revenue +55%
UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $240k · revenue +33%
Funded once
Safe Passageone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -37%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGANgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +39%- MHMOST HOLY TRINITY CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $10k
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 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.
The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The organization is known as the leader in the movement and is seen as the "go to" experts on environmental justice and sustainable redevelopment because of its knowledge and its network.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
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.…
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
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.
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.
Eastern market is organized to combat community deterioration and to lessen the burdens of government in managing its public market that has served detroit since 1891. eastern market operates the market under an agreement with the city of…
Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Weyerhaeuser Family Foundationinc. 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 34 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 WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WEYERHAEUSER FAMILY FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds NEXT GENERATION CHOICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Creamos Norte ↗
- Who funds BROOKE USA INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Safe Passage ↗
- Who funds THE GREENING OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ENVIROMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN FOREST ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN KOALA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CABRINI CLINIC ↗
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 · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Elizabeth Allan & Warren Shelden Fund · William & Martha Ford Fund · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good
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 Weyerhaeuserday 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.
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
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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