How much did WILLIAM & MARTHA FORD FUND grant in FY2024?

Health$3.5MArts & Culture$295kEducation$188kRecreation & Sports$93kEnvironment$89kPhilanthropy$75kHuman Services$60kAnimals$36kCommunity Improvement$27kOther$2.5M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

spring galadinnergarden partyeducationredscholarshipappeal

2019

gardenpartyspringdinnerhenry estatetau betabarbara

2020

appealchrist churchchurch grossedrivegala

2021

barbara bushchrist churchgalaappealdrive

2022

isle conservancybelle isleappealdrivehenry healthhealth systemarts

2023

detroit riverfrontriverfront conservancyathleticbarbara bushchrist churchchurch grossehenry health

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k50 grants · $93k
$10k–50k9 grants · $120k
$50k–250k4 grants · $301k
$250k+2 grants · $2.6M

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$672k

Total assets

Largest grants

HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM$2,150,000
THE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$500,000
CHRIST CHURCH GROSSE POINTE$101,000
THE HENRY FORD$100,000
OUR LADY OF THE ELMS SCHOOL$50,000
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS$50,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$25,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$20,000
FAIR LANE$15,000
FREEDOM INSTITUTE$10,000
HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST$10,000
RACQUET UP DETROIT$10,000
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC$10,000
CATCH$10,000
DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.5M · 100 repeat orgs$366k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

100 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100

Total granted

$6.5M

$332k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+8%

Still filing today

58%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

HF
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +69%
DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
8× · 2017–2024 · $144k · revenue +11%
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +21%

Funded once

HF
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -61%
SC
SCHAAP CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS
one grant, 2022 · $25k
TN
THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES
one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -80%

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.

Alumni Association of the University of Michigan

The Association is an independent worldwide organization that nurtures lifelong relationships with and among current and future Michigan alumni. As a committed partner of the University the Association offers programs of relevance and…

Education

Detroit Regional Chamber

The detroit regional chamber carries out its mission to power the economy of southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy, economic development, and talent initiatives. the chamber improves the image and quality of life in the…

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health

The Greater Detroit Health Transition

Gdahc is a regional health improvement collaborative, which is a non-profit, non-governmental agency working to improve health, transform health care delivery, and manage health care costs. gdahc does this in all of its work through a…

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Presidents Council State Universities

To advocate higher education as a public good & promote its collective value in serving michigan.

Education

Detroit Athletic Club

A distinguished private club preserving and celebrating humanity. the most sought after experience in detroit.

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Michigan Enviromental Council

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

Environment

Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform & enrich the intellectual lives of the 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the dc area & to assist the university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education

Michigan Chamber Foundation

1) to plan and conduct nonpartisan public education programs regarding free enterprise, productivity and basic economic issues affecting the state of michigan.2) to establish and operate a leadership institute designed to provide promising…

Arts & Culture

Detroit Opera

The mission of detroit opera is to be one of the outstanding opera companies in the unted states and, in particular, to serve as a major cultural resource to the city of detroit and the state of michigan.

Arts & Culture

Michigan State Medical Society

Promote a health care environment that supports physicians in caring for and enhancing the health of michigan citizens through science, quality, and ethics in the practice of medicine.

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Michigan Chamber of Commerce

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Vassar College. 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.

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 48 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) — 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/86

the rest of the field

10%

5,620/53,770

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.

05the grantee network

82 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

81/82

Grantees still filing

56/82

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$3,544,500Other$2,623,321Arts & Culture$295,450Education$188,200Recreation & Sports$93,000Environment$89,000Philanthropy$75,000

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.

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 for SoutheastMI65.1× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast · Dte Energy Foundation · Lynn & Paul Alandt Foundation · St Clair Charitable Trust · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Benson & Edith Ford Fund · McGregor Fund · Hudson-Webber Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Ford Motor Company Fund · Ethel and James Flinn 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 organisation WILLIAM & MARTHA FORD FUND 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: EAST HAMPTON BEACH PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~645 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 132950117 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on EAST HAMPTON BEACH PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 645 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 19% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to William & Martha Ford Fund?

Find your warmest path to William & Martha Ford Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WILLIAM & MARTHA FORD FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

82 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to William & Martha Ford Fund?

More from the funding graph

WILLIAM & MARTHA FORD FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

82 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to William & Martha Ford Fund?

More from the funding graph