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World Heritage Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2021
4
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$2.4MReligion$157kArts & Culture$129kEducation$50kHuman Services$34kHousing & Shelter$30kPhilanthropy$8kAnimals$7kOther$0
02FY2021 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS$2,200
DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$1,500
GERMAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUND-USA$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit: $1k → 21%YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit: $1k → 21%YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit: $1k → 21%Starfish Family Services: $3k → 21%Starfish Family Services: $3k → 21%Starfish Family Services: $3k → 21%Covenant House Michigan: $10k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $3k → 21%Covenant House Michigan: $3k → 21%Covenant House Michigan: $3k → 21%Covenant House Michigan: $3k → 21%Covenant House Michigan: $1k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $1k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $1k → 21%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
TN
DC
LA
GA
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 57 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

57 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2021, 53 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
45

Total granted

$1.8M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+27%

Still filing today

49%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
    3× · 2018–2020 · $115k · revenue +69%
  • COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $28k · revenue +25%
  • COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN
    4× · 2017–2020 · $23k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • UP
    U-M Prechter Bipolar Research Progr
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
  • PB
    PRECHTER BIPOLAR RESEARCH PROGRAM U
    one grant, 2020 · $400k
  • UD
    U-M Dept of Psychiatry
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
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
Michigan Enviromental Council

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

Environment
2
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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3
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.…

—
4
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

—
5
Mymichigan Medical Center Midland

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
6
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
7
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.

—
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
Henry Ford Health Genesys Hospital

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…

Health
10
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
11
Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Corporation

Henry ford health macomb hospital (hfmh) is an affiliate of henry ford health system dba henry ford health ("hf health") serving the northeastern metropolitan detroit michigan communities. as an integrated component of one of the nation's…

Health
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Guidance Center; the most unlike its peers is Alliance for Vision Research Inc. 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

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 103 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
28/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

U-M Prechter Bipolar Research Prog: $1,050,000 · OtherU-M Prechter Bipolar Research ProgU-M Prechter Bipolar Research Progr: $500,000 · OtherU-M Prechter Bipolar Research ProgrPRECHTER BIPOLAR RESEARCH PROGRAM U: $400,000 · OtherPRECHTER BIPOLAR RESEARCH PROGRAM UGROSSE ILE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $155,000 · OtherGROSSE ILE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHU-M Dept of Psychiatry: $100,000 · Other+64 more: $307,725 · Other+64 moreHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $115,000 · HealthTHE GUIDANCE CENTER: $17,500 · HealthROSE HILL CENTER INC: $15,000 · HealthMIRCORE: $10,000 · HealthMARINERS INN: $8,000 · Health+11 more: $29,000 · HealthDETROIT OPERA: $55,000 · Arts & CultureDOWNRIVER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS: $6,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $4,800 · Arts & CultureCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $27,500 · EducationGrosse Ile Educational Foundation Inc: $6,000 · EducationCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $23,000 · Human ServicesSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesYMCA of Metropolitan Detroit: $3,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: $6,450 · PhilanthropyTRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyDETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND: $1,000 · PhilanthropyDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $7,350 · Animals
Other$2,512,725Health$194,500Arts & Culture$78,800Education$33,500Human Services$33,500Philanthropy$8,450Animals$7,350

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 budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $115,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT OPERA: $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $23,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GUIDANCE CENTER: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROSE HILL CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARINERS INN: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $7,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS: $6,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGrosse Ile Educational Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetDOWNRIVER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS: $6,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetFIRST STEP FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNAMI MICHIGAN: $3,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKNOWRESOLVE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPenrickton Center for Blind Children: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA of Metropolitan Detroit: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Historical Society: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR VISION RESEARCH INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHENRY FORD ESTATE: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHALDEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRENTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RYAN LICHT SANG BIPOLAR FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKADIMA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAYLOR CONSERVATORY FOUNDATION: $850 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ALLIANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% 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 HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds THE GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ROSE HILL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MIRCORE ↗
  • Who funds MARINERS INN ↗
  • Who funds STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds Grosse Ile Educational Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds DOWNRIVER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds FIRST STEP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds AUTOMOTIVE HALL OF FAME INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …DTE Energy FoundationFord PhilanthropyChildren's Hospital o…The Kresge FoundationUnited Way for Southe…Ethel and James Flinn…Flagstar Foundation I…Ralph L & Winifred E …Elizabeth Allan & War…Gilbert Family Founda…Detroit Industrial Sc…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI29.5× affinity13 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 · Ford Philanthropy · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Ralph L & Winifred E Polk Foundation · Elizabeth Allan & Warren Shelden Fund · Gilbert Family Foundation · Detroit Industrial School

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 World Heritage Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from World Heritage Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    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.

    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 103 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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