Michigan · Nonprofit
THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND
THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND (Michigan) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,404,722 to it, the largest being DTE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($4,000,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $21M
What The Heat and Warmth Fund does
Mission
Thaw works to stabilize and empower michigan families to keep them healthy, safe, and warm. We envision a michigan in which every family has access to affordable utilities, energy efficient homes, and viable job opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The michigan energy assistance program (meap) provides services to residents of michigan with income below 60% of the state median income who have difficulty paying the costs of their heat and/or electricity. Direct assistance with bill payments is provided as a one-time payment or enrollment in a 24-month affordable payment plan with a fixed monthly payment. Supportive services include energy education, needs assessment, vendor advocacy, budgeting services, energy conservations services and case management. From july 2025 through september 2025, thaw aided 2060 households through meap. All applicants received at least one supportive service.
$2,280,018 spentof which $1,787,809 as grants68% of program spendingGas, electric, and water utility assistance payments, enrollment in gas and electric utility affordable payment plans, energy efficiency education, and utility conservation measures to households throughout the state of michigan.
$435,374 spentof which $273,424 as grants13% of program spendingMiwater (michigan water assistance through efficiency and repairs) program provides water affordability and efficiency services for financially insecure michigan residents by maintaining water service. Miwater program may provide applicants assistance with one or more of the following: 1) water bill payments for residential customers in michigan with a past due water bill, up to $2500 per household; 2) water conservation assessments, conservation education and training, and water efficiency supplies; 3) remediation services including minor plumbing repairs designed to reduce consumption in wayne, oakland and macomb counties only, and; 4) supportive services including wrap-around services with internal and external linkages to additional resources. From july 2025 through september 2025, thaw aided 84 households through miwater.
$56,987 spentof which $35,491 as grants2% of program spendingThe energy efficiency assistance program serviced 29 customers between july 2025 and september 2025. The program assists customers with achieving heat, water and electric energy efficiency and sustainability by providing new energy-efficient furnaces, central air units, refrigerators, water heaters, basement/attic insulation and programmable thermostats.
$439,033 spentof which $271,145 as grants13% of program spendingThe detroit home repair fund (dhrf) supports community partners across the city of detroit to address the enormous home repair needs of detroit homeowners and minimize displacement due to deferred maintenance on homes that have created unsafe and costly conditions for residents. Dhrf is designed to fill the gaps and incentivize braiding existing resources to address a home holistically, providing those much-needed repairs and upgrades to homeowners. The program replaces porches, roofs, windows, insulation, plumbing, outside masonry work and other home repair needs. Thaw aided 5 homeowners with home repairs as a part of the dhrf program from july 2025 to september 2025.
$136,897 spentof which $85,258 as grants4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,348,309.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $11M to $14M (+28%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 51% · 2018 66% · 2019 70% · 2020 53% · 2021 57% · 2022 55% · 2023 53% · 2024 64% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kimberly Burton
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $731k → $1.5M.
14 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 funders by total. 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
THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 66% · 2019 63% · 2020 44% · 2021 35% · 2022 57% · 2023 33% — 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
51% of THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
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
92% of THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is 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.
Organizations like THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND: 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 THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND?
- THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND (Michigan) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,404,722 to it, the largest being DTE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($4,000,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $13,404,722 in grants to THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND?
- DTE ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND 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.
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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 78 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing