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GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION

GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $314,250 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH ALLAN & WARREN SHELDEN FUND ($240,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$311k
Revenue FY2025
17
Funders on record
$314k
Grants received
$576k
Net assets
11/17 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 2,156 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin92% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve268.5mo · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,156 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($72k) Expenses 100 ($49k) Net assets 100 ($137k)2018 Revenue 96 ($69k) Expenses 40 ($19k) Net assets 137 ($187k)2019 Revenue 99 ($72k) Expenses 52 ($25k) Net assets 171 ($233k)2020 Revenue 394 ($285k) Expenses 646 ($314k) Net assets 150 ($204k)2021 Revenue 122 ($88k) Expenses 45 ($22k) Net assets 198 ($270k)2022 Revenue 111 ($80k) Expenses 277 ($135k) Net assets 157 ($215k)2023 Revenue 350 ($254k) Expenses 444 ($216k) Net assets 185 ($253k)2024 Revenue 225 ($163k) Expenses 262 ($127k) Net assets 212 ($290k)2025 Revenue 430 ($311k) Expenses 53 ($26k) Net assets 422 ($576k)
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Revenue (430)Expenses (53)Net assets (422)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,616 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$24k
17
$50k
18
$47k
19
$29k
20
$66k
21
$54k
22
$38k
23
$35k
24
$286k
25
269
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $21k → $39k.

3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

76%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 72% · 2019 79% · 2020 66% · 2021 69% · 2022 97% · 2023 64%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

45% of GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

95% of GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
OH
NC
LA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 17 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

35% of spending goes to programs.

Program 35%Management 37%Fundraising 28%

Governance

28
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

69%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION?
GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $314,250 to it, the largest being ELIZABETH ALLAN & WARREN SHELDEN FUND ($240,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $314,250 in grants to GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION?
ELIZABETH ALLAN & WARREN SHELDEN FUND is the largest funder on record, with $240,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GROSSE POINTE FARMS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing