Our Grants
| Program Area | Organization | City | Purpose of Grant | Grant Amount | Term | Fiscal Year Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Lakes | Detroit Strategic Framework Inc | Detroit | to support an assessment of the existing and projected market for jobs that support the expansion of green stormwater infrastructure in Detroit | 50,000 | 9 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Alliance For The Great Lakes | Grand Haven | to help advance citywide stormwater management policies in partnership with other organizations and coalitions as part of a coordinated effort to support the city in implementing integrated water management policies and practices | 135,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Arts & Community Life | Allied Media Projects | Detroit | support Essay'd's contributions to the foundation of an economically sustainable arts environment in Detroit | 55,000 | 24 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History | Detroit | planning grant for development of final concept and work plan for collaborative storm water demonstration site between The Wright Museum and the Michigan Science Center | 157,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Legacy | Christ Church Cranbrook | Bloomfield Hills | to use projects in music, arts and education to close the distance between cities and suburbs, as well as religious and educational communities, in metropolitan Detroit, This is an Erb Family Legacy Grant. | 56,100 | 12 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Christ Church Cranbrook | Bloomfield Hills | to collaborate with DWSD and Detroit churches to provide programming in water stewardship. | 16,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Council of Michigan Foundations | Grand Haven | to support the annual meeting of the Great Lakes Funders Collaboration | 25,000 | 6 | 2018 |
| Arts & Community Life | Detroit Economic Growth Association | Detroit | to support outreach and engagement for artists and community stakeholders to participate the City of Detroit Planning & Development’s cultural planning process. | 25,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Educational Television Foundation | Wixom | to work with partners to create, curate and distribute multi-platform content embracing Basin matters (policy, research, restoration, economy, land use, recreation) to inspire informed, responsible action | 750,000 | 37 | 2018 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroit Food & Entrepreneurship Academy | Detroit | for a program where students explore sustainability, including healthy MI food, land, and a respect for water. The lessons, fieldtrips, and workshops developed by DFA will impact programming long-term | 50,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Greenways Coalition | Detroit | to encourage stormwater management practices in tandem with greenways | 20,000 | 8 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Greenways Coalition | Detroit | to encourage stormwater management practices in tandem with greenways | 20,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation | Harper Woods | to continue and expand the youth jazz education program | 50,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Strategic Framework Inc | Detroit | to evaluate phase I and plan phase II of Land + Water WORKS, to amplify Detroiters as land and water stewards through education and installation of green stormwater infrastructure | 125,000 | 6 | 2018 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Detroit | to continue support for the youth jazz education programs | 50,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Zoological Society | Royal Oak | to establish a Great Lakes Nature Center in Macomb County, strengthening the Detroit Zoological Society’s engagement with its audience and deepening visitors’ understanding of their relationship to the Great Lakes. | 2,000,000 | 30 | 2018 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice | Detroit | for a challenge grant for general operations | 30,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice | Detroit | for renewed general operating support | 135,000 | 24 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Eastside Community Network | Detroit | to continue the Lower East Side Action Plan (LEAP) on the lower east side of Detroit, adding a prrof of concept study on offsite compliance under Detroit's proposed Post Construction Stormwater Ordinance | 300,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Ecology Center Inc | Ann Arbor | for renewed general operating support | 100,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Ecology Center Inc | Ann Arbor | to create a thorough review of current activity and organizations in Wayne County working on lead and asthma prevention, assess gaps, and identify opportunities | 50,000 | 7 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Freshwater Future | Petoskey | to continue to support the Canadian engagement activities of the Lake Erie Collective | 70,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Friends Of The Rouge | Dearborn | to continue and expand the Rain Gardens to the Rescue program | 330,000 | 36 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Friends Of The Rouge | Dearborn | to support Phase II implementation of the 25 mile Rouge River Water Trail on the lower branch | 76,660 | 12 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Great Lakes Commission | Ann Arbor | to determine how the investment that the federal government has made under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative since 2010 has impacted the Great Lakes economy | 125,000 | 7 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Great Lakes Commission | Ann Arbor | to support the second phase of two Great Lakes Blue Accounting efforts: ErieStat, which is measuring progress toward phosphorus reductions in the Western Lake Erie Basin, and the Source Water Initiative, which is measuring progress toward shared goals for source water protection | 250,000 | 24 | 2018 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Great Lakes Environmental Law Center | DETROIT | to provide community education and policy support to improve the ability of nonprofits, community groups, and local governments in southeastern Michigan to engage in public health decision-making processes related to air quality. | 128,000 | 24 | 2018 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Green Living Science | Detroit | to embed sustainable solid waste management practices and policies in the City of Detroit in order to increase recycling of waste and materials. | 200,000 | 24 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | International Association For Great Lakes Research-Michigan | Ann Arbor | to review and evaluate what was achieved and learned during 32 years of restoring Great Lakes Areas of Concern and advocate for sustaining restoration efforts | 100,000 | 24 | 2018 |
| Jazz Education | Jazz At Lincoln Center Inc | New York | to present 10 Detroit-area band directors with full scholarships (registration, travel and board) to the four-day Jazz at Lincoln Center Band Director Academy. | 30,000 | 4 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Jefferson East Inc | Detroit | to transform an abandoned Detroit block into a mixed-use, mixed-income development incorporating public space, green design and water conservation. | 250,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Keep Growing Detroit | Detroit | to conduct research and advocate for the role of urban agriculture in helping manage stormwater, and provide growers with the knowledge and infrastructure they need to be good water stewards | 406,203 | 36 | 2018 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Living Arts | Detroit | to expand Living Arts's Detroit Wolf Trap (DWT) program, increasing the engagement and capacity of teachers and caregivers as effective partners in early arts learning and positioning Living Arts as the leader in Detroit's early childhood arts education efforts. | 95,000 | 24 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Meridian Institute | Dillon | to convene an industry collaborative to develop a sustainability strategy for the bi-national Great Lakes region with leadership from the Council of Great Lakes Industries | 45,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Metro Healthcare Services Inc | Southfield | General Operating Grant | 60,000 | 24 | 2018 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Michigan Environmental Council | Lansing | we will invest Erb Family Foundation support in engaging partners in Southeast Michigan and beyond in decision-maker education and strategic communications initiatives to: a) strengthen the advocacy capacity of Michigan's environmental community; and b) achieve shared state policy goals on Great Lakes priorities, like septic system reforms, and environmental justice/health challenges, like lead poisoning. | 125,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Michigan League Of Conservation Voters Education Fund | Ann Arbor | to continue to support the implementation of the Lake Erie Collective's campaign to address toxic algal blooms in Michigan | 75,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Special Opportunities | Michigan Nonprofit Association | Lansing | to build operational effectiveness among participants through technical assistance workshops and a limited amount of organizational assessments | 40,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Jazz Education | Michigan State University | Detroit | to continue support for the youth jazz education programs in Detroit | 65,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Michigan State University | Detroit | to expand Michigan Water School with an emphasis on developing partnerships with four watershed groups in southeast Michigan to offer workshops for decision makers in those watersheds | 192,000 | 36 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Michigan State University | Detroit | to improve water quality in the River Raisin and Western Lake Erie Basin | 100,000 | 24 | 2018 |
| Arts & Community Life | Midtown Detroit, Inc. | Detroit | to support the development of a strategy that connects the exterior physical spaces surrounding Midtown's arts and cultural institutions, while facilitating civic engagement to support this design challenge | 60,000 | 15 | 2018 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Motown Museum Inc | Detroit | to transform three historic homes on West Grand Boulevard and the associated green space into educational and entrepreneurial incubators. | 1,000,000 | 36 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | National Fish and Wildlife Foundation | Ft. Snelling | to create a pooled fund to support green stormwater infrastructure projects in the seven county southeast Michigan region | 600,000 | 38 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | National Wildlife Federation | Ann Arbor | to engage businesses around Lake Erie in work on harmful algal blooms | 230,000 | 24 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | National Wildlife Federation | Ann Arbor | to support the annual Great Lakes Conference in Detroit | 25,000 | 6 | 2018 |
| Arts & Community Life | Power House Productions | Detroit | to develop an operational strategy for our organization, including the sustaining of partnerships, project houses and neighborhood public spaces | 100,000 | 24 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | The Greening of Detroit | Detroit | to support the organization’s overall operations and to provide funds for a donor matching challenge. | 100,000 | 24 | 2018 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | United Community Housing Coalition | Detroit | to comprehensively address the issue of tax foreclosure in Detroit and its impact on occupants of tax foreclosed homes and their neighborhoods. | 100,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Alzheimer's Research | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor | to support an early career pilot project that tests new ideas about the causes and treatment of dementia disorders | 35,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Special Opportunities | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor | to support the summer placement of a fellow from the Environmental Fellows Program from the School for Environment and Sustainability. | 20,000 | 12 | 2018 |
| Great Lakes | Wayne State University | Detroit | to improve Great Lakes water quality by connecting regional and bi-national science for monitoring, preventing and mitigating urban stresses in the Huron to Erie corridor | 849,000 | 36 | 2018 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | 826 Michigan | Ann Arbor | for unrestricted general operating support | 75,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Alliance For The Great Lakes | Grand Haven | to move water-related local and regional planning forward to achieve on-the-ground results and policy improvements in Detroit while inspiring citizen engagement | 60,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Allied Media Projects | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 75,000 | 30 | 2017 |
| Alzheimer's Research | Alzheimers Disease And Related Disorders Association, Inc. | Chicago | towards a $140 million clinical trial to attempt to prevent Alzheimer's by keeping amyloid from being deposited in the brain | 2,400,000 | 48 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Arts & Scraps | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 30,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Jazz Education | Arts League Of Michigan Inc | Detroit | to continue and expand the youth jazz education program | 50,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Arts & Community Life | Brightmoor Alliance Inc on Behalf of Sidewalk Detroit | Detroit | support the 2017-18 Sidewalk Festival of Performing Arts and SideTrails artist residency program | 72,600 | 24 | 2017 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Central Detroit Christian Community Development Corporation | Detroit | to support an aquaponics system as a means of environmentally friendly farming | 125,000 | 48 | 2017 |
| Jazz Education | Chamber Music Society Of Detroit | Farmington Hills | to serve children deprived of adequate arts education, by equipping musicians with online tools that leverage measurable outcomes through live program visits to schools | 25,000 | 10 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 75,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History | Detroit | planning grant for development of final concept and work plan for collaborative storm water demonstration site between The Wright Museum and the Michigan Science Center | 54,000 | 6 | 2017 |
| Legacy | Christ Church Cranbrook | Bloomfield Hills | to use projects in music, arts and education to close the distance between cities and suburbs, as well as religious and educational communities, in metropolitan Detroit, This is an Erb Family Legacy Grant. | 90,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | College for Creative Studies | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for CCS' non-degree community arts education and outreach programs | 75,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Cranbrook Educational Community | Bloomfield Hills | for unrestricted general operating support for Cranbrooks' cultural and arts programs, including its community education and outreach programs | 300,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Legacy | Cranbrook Educational Community | Bloomfield Hills | to implement the necessary steps to arrest degradation of Cranbrook Archives' holdings of acetate film and to preserve the photographic negatives. This is a Family Legacy Grant. | 50,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Creative Many Michigan | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 75,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | CultureSource | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 150,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Artists Market | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 45,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Childrens Choir Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 30,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Economic Growth Association | Detroit | for contractor training and funding to help property owners construct green infrastructure to manage stormwater and qualify for a credit towards the DWSD drainage charge | 700,000 | 24 | 2017 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroit Economic Growth Association | Detroit | to support the development of a Sustainability Action Plan by the new Office of Sustainability | 25,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Educational Television Foundation | Wixom | for unrestricted general operating support | 300,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroit Food Policy Council | Detroit | to facilitate action on recommendations from the Economic Analysis of Detroit's Food System | 110,000 | 24 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Greenways Coalition | Detroit | encourage stormwater management practices in tandem with greenways, especially for Detroit's lower eastside, Belt Line Greenway, May Creek Greenway, and Inner Circle Greenway | 10,000 | 8 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Historical Society | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 75,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Institute of Arts | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 300,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation | Harper Woods | to continue and expand the youth jazz education program | 50,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Public Library Friends Foundation Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 30,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Public Theatre | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 45,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Strategic Framework Inc | Detroit | to amplify Detroiters as land and water stewards through education and installation of green stormwater infrastructure and help residents transition to DWSD's drainage credits | 326,500 | 12 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Detroit | to build the endowment of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, ensuring long-term financial and artistic viability | 1,000,000 | 62 | 2017 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Detroit | to continue support for the youth jazz education programs | 50,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 300,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Zoological Society | Royal Oak | for unrestricted general operating support | 300,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice | Detroit | for renewed general operating support | 75,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Downtown Detroit Partnership Inc | Detroit | to incorporate green infrastructure capital improvements into the Woodward Avenue bike mobility streetscape design | 250,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Eastside Community Network | Detroit | to continue to support the Lower Eastside Action Plan (LEAP), a resident-driven process using data analysis, community outreach and education to plan and implement the sustainable redevelopment of Detroit's lower eastside | 250,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Ecology Center Inc | Ann Arbor | for renewed general operating support | 100,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | EcoWorks | Detroit | for a research study to develop guidelines for the application in situ amendments to reduce soil lead exposure in vulnerable populations | 216,000 | 24 | 2017 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | EcoWorks | Detroit | to continue support for the Great Lakes Bioneers | 28,000 | 24 | 2017 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Focus Hope | Detroit | for the LaSalle EcoHome Demonstration Project -- the first LEED Platinum home rehab in Detroit | 60,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Freshwater Future | Petoskey | to support the Canadian engagement activities of the Lake Erie Collective. | 70,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Freshwater Future | Petoskey | to coordinate the Great Lakes Network to support binational collaboration amongst nonprofits to improve water-related outcomes | 300,000 | 24 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Funders Network For Smart Growth And Livable Communities Inc | Coral Gables | to support green stormwater infrastructure projects within the national Partners for Places matching grant program, catalyzing partnerships between municipal or county-level sustainability directors and local, place-based foundations | 50,000 | 18 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Great Lakes Commission | Ann Arbor | to catalyze the adoption of green infrastructure practices and policies that can heal the fractured water cycle in mid-sized communities across the binational Great Lakes basin through the creation of a green infrastructure champions mentoring network | 245,000 | 24 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Heritage Works | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 30,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Huron River Watershed Council | Ann Arbor | for a challenge grant to continue to support the RiverUp! initiative to restore and revitalize the Huron River corridor for the benefit of local economies and residents, and conservation of a shared natural heritage | 300,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Insideout Literary Arts Project | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 75,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Arts & Community Life | International Wildlife Refuge Alliance | Grosse Ile | for a challenge grant to create a 6' X 7' photo-mosaic mural, using children's artwork, for the new LEED certified Visitor Center | 20,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Keep Growing Detroit | Detroit | to build organizational capacity to generate earned revenue | 120,000 | 24 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Living Arts | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 75,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Marygrove College | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for the Institute of Music & Dance's non-degree community outreach arts programs | 30,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Matrix Theatre Company | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 30,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Michigan Association Conservation Districts (MACD) | East Lansing | to increase farmer adoption of conservation practices and strengthen farmer leadership to encourage neighbor action | 480,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Michigan Community Resources | Detroit | to provide mini grants of up to $5,000 and technical assistance for small projects in Detroit that support green stormwater infrastructure | 75,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Michigan Environmental Council | Lansing | to continue to advocate at a state-wide level on environmental health, justice, and water issues facing metro Detroit | 50,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Michigan Humanities Council | Lansing | to develop and present an interactive, educational exhibit that will cultivate water stewardship and collect qualitative data on why Michiganders value the Great Lakes. | 150,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Michigan League Of Conservation Voters Education Fund | Ann Arbor | to support the implementation of the Lake Erie Collective's campaign to address toxic algal blooms in Michigan | 75,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Michigan Nonprofit Association | Lansing | to positively impact Detroit's neighborhoods by collaborating with partners to create a community development system for Detroit | 300,000 | 24 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Michigan Opera Theatre | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 75,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Michigan Science Center | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 75,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Jazz Education | Michigan State University | Detroit | to continue support for the youth jazz education programs in Detroit | 65,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Millan Theatre Company | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 30,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Mosaic Youth Theatre Of Detroit | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 75,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Motorcities National Heritage Area Partnership Incorporated | Detroit | to transform a neglected urban space into an experiential gateway that interprets the history of labor, industry and environment | 170,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Motown Museum Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 45,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 75,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Music Hall Center For The Performing Arts Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 75,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Pewabic Pottery | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 75,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Pewabic Pottery | Detroit | to expand Pewabic's tile studio, increase organizational sustainability, and complete a sustainability audit that will identify and reduce environmental impact. | 115,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | PuppetART | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 30,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Scarab Club | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 30,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Signal Return Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 30,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Southeastern Michigan Health Association | Detroit | for a 2 year fellowship to strengthen the Detroit Health Department's capacities in policy analysis, advocacy, and programming to improve environmental health and justice | 198,000 | 24 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Southwest Detroit Business Association Inc. | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for COMPAS | 30,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Sphinx Organization, Inc. | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 75,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Stratford Shakespearean Festival of America | Stratford | for unrestricted general operating support | 300,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | TechTown Detroit | Detroit | to bring the AquaHacking semi-finals to Detroit to elevate the value of clean water, drive innovation in the water technology sector, and engage young people pursuing technical careers in the "Blue Economy" | 100,000 | 7 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | The Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority | Exeter | in renewed support to continue to improve water quality for the Bayfield River, Lake Huron in Ontario | 100,000 | 33 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | The Greening of Detroit | Detroit | to begin renovating W.I. Meyers Nursery, which will provide important training opportunities for Detroiters as they grow trees and native plants for Detroit's green infrastructure | 350,000 | 24 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | The Greening of Detroit | Detroit | for a challenge grant for general operating support | 50,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | The Henry Ford | Dearborn | for unrestricted general operating support | 300,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | The Nature Conservancy | Lansing | to develop a prototype green infrastructure project tracking and communications knowledgebase and web interface for the City of Detroit | 241,000 | 24 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | The Sierra Club Foundation | Oakland | to move the Great Lakes program to the Michigan Chapter which will continue to support efforts to promote the use of urban "green infrastructure" in Detroit | 75,000 | 24 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | The Theatre Ensemble Inc. d/b/a Meadow Brook Theatre | Rochester | for unrestricted general operating support | 75,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Trout Unlimited Inc | Arlington | for renewed support to continue to engage Trout Unlimited members and other anglers as advocates for Great Lakes restoration | 100,000 | 12 | 2017 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Wayne State University | Detroit | to support Detroit's environmental sustainability through a partnership between the Detroit Revitalization Fellows Program (DRF) and community-based organizations focused on environmental health, justice and equitable development and to support a collaborative project to address an environmental issue (to be selected by the fellows) that will impact Detroit's future | 400,000 | 17 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Wayne State University | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for the Elaine Jacob Art Gallery and the Art Department Gallery, WSU Press & The Freer House | 30,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Wayne State University | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for WDET-FM | 45,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Wayne State University | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for Hillbery Theatre | 45,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | YMCA Of Metropolitan Detroit | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 30,000 | 36 | 2017 |
| Great Lakes | Alliance For The Great Lakes | Grand Haven | to move water-related local and regional planning forward to achieve on-the-ground results and policy improvements in Detroit while inspiring citizen engagement | 60,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Alzheimer's Research | Alzheimers Disease And Related Disorders Association, Inc. | Chicago | to support the International Research Grant Program, which funds leading research and connections between researchers around the world | 300,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Arts League Of Michigan Inc | Detroit | for a transformational grant to significantly expand infrastructure and programs | 500,000 | 24 | 2016 |
| Jazz Education | Arts League Of Michigan Inc | Detroit | to continue and expand the youth jazz education program | 50,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Belle Isle Conservancy | Detroit | for renewed support for the volunteer-membership initiative | 50,000 | 24 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Chandler Park Conservancy | Detroit | for stormwater management installation and operating support for The Chandler Park Conservancy | 607,000 | 36 | 2016 |
| Legacy | Christ Church Cranbrook | Bloomfield Hills | to use projects in music, arts and education to close the distance between cities and suburbs, as well as religious and educational communities, in metropolitan Detroit, This is an Erb Family Legacy Grant. | 90,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Clinton River Watershed Council | Rochester Hills | to continue to support WaterTowns!, a community-based initiative designed to help towns and cities in the watershed leverage the assets of the Clinton River and Lake St. Clair for water-oriented community development | 255,000 | 36 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Clinton River Watershed Council | Rochester Hills | for continued general operating support: $50,000 per year over three years, plus $50,000 in 2016 for construction of biocells and other stormwater features at the Center Street Parklet in Royal Oak | 200,000 | 36 | 2016 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Community Development Advocates of Detroit | Detroit | for a pre-development process among four institutional partners to build the framework for a community development system in Detroit. | 25,000 | 9 | 2016 |
| Arts & Community Life | Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings | Southfield | to pilot a program that uses the arts to enhance community life in Highland Park, including a robust community planning process, technical assistance and implementation grants | 152,800 | 24 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Economic Growth Association | Detroit | to develop a competitive application to US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for disaster response funding for sustainable infrastructure to improve resiliency. | 115,000 | 6 | 2016 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroit Economic Growth Association | Detroit | to help increase small business investment on neighborhood commercial corridors by matching buildings and businesses with competitive grants, loans and counseling | 500,000 | 36 | 2016 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroit Food & Entrepreneurship Academy | Detroit | to support development of a just and equitable food system by investing in Detroit's high school students as the leaders, entrepreneurs, employees, and employers of tomorrow | 30,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroit Food Policy Council | Detroit | to facilitate action on recommendations from the Economic Analysis of Detroit's Food System | 45,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation | Detroit | for the Informed Action to Promote Environmental Engagement, Advocacy, and Leadership (I-APEEAL), a collaborative housed at Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation and the University of Michigan. This collaborative will participate in the development of a public health action plan and foster leadership and advocacy to implement the plan. I-APEEAL works within the framework of the Detroit Environmental Agenda | 395,000 | 36 | 2016 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation | Harper Woods | to continue and expand the youth jazz education program | 50,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Strategic Framework Inc | Detroit | to support implementation of Detroit Future City's Field Guide to Working with Lots through a mini-grant program, technical assistance, and communications and storytelling | 140,000 | 6 | 2016 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Detroit | to continue support for the youth jazz education programs | 50,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice | Detroit | for renewed general operating support | 75,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice | Detroit | to support continued work on the Detroit Environmental Agenda | 621,000 | 36 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Eastside Community Network | Detroit | to continue the Lower East Side Action Plan (LEAP) on the lower east side of Detroit | 250,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Ecology Center Inc | Ann Arbor | for renewed general operating support | 100,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | EcoWorks | Detroit | to continue support for the Great Lakes Bioneers | 10,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Fair Food Network | Ann Arbor | to build organizational capacity | 90,000 | 36 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Freshwater Future | Petoskey | to create the Great Lakes Network to support binational collaboration amongst nonprofits to improve water-related outcomes, with an initial emphasis on the Western Lake Erie Basin | 500,000 | 24 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Friends Of The Detroit River | Taylor | for continued general operating support: $20,000 per year over three years plus up to $6,000 in 2016 for additional expenses | 66,000 | 36 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Friends Of The Rouge | Dearborn | for continued general operating support: $40,000 per year over three years | 120,000 | 36 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Great Lakes Commission | Ann Arbor | to build a collaborative information sharing platform for the Great Lakes region called "Blue Accounting" focused on Source Water Initiative that will develop a Phosphorus Reduction Tracking System to track progress toward the 40 percent phosphorus reduction target for Western Lake Erie by 2025 | 250,000 | 24 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Huron River Watershed Council | Ann Arbor | for continued general operating support: $100,000 per year over three years | 300,000 | 36 | 2016 |
| Jazz Education | Jazz At Lincoln Center Inc | New York | for Jazz for Young People-Detroit (JFYPD) and for scholarships for Detroit students participating in the summer jazz academy | 100,000 | 14 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Lawrence Technological University | Southfield | to develop a binational stormwater technology transfer collaborative for the Great Lakes Basin in partnership with the Great Lakes Commission | 120,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Matrix Theatre Company | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 25,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Michigan Community Resources | Detroit | to provide mini grants of up to $5,000 for small projects in Detroit that support green stormwater infrastructure | 60,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Michigan Environmental Council | Lansing | to continue to advocate at a state-wide level on environmental health, justice, and water issues facing metro Detroit | 50,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Michigan League Of Conservation Voters Education Fund | Ann Arbor | for a six-month planning grant to develop a field organizing plan | 35,000 | 6 | 2016 |
| Jazz Education | Michigan State University | Detroit | to continue support for the youth jazz education programs in Detroit | 50,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Music Hall Center For The Performing Arts Inc | Detroit | to support a $5 million capital campaign to remove threat of foreclosure and stabilize Music Hall operations for future generations | 50,000 | 20 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | National Wildlife Federation | Ann Arbor | for continued support and to broaden and deepen the membership for the Healing Our Waters - Great Lakes Coalition (HOW): a collaborative effort to promote funding and policy reform for the Great Lakes | 450,000 | 36 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Student Conservation Association Inc | Arlington | to give underserved Detroit youth the training, tools, and experience to have a stake in the environmental health and green infrastructure of their communities | 60,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | The Greening of Detroit | Detroit | to support the civic engagment activities related to the City of Detroit green infrastructure pilot project in District 2 | 68,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | The Greening of Detroit | Detroit | to partner with DTE and the City of Detroit to reactivate Detroit's former O'Shea Park into a unique amenity that combines recreation, education and public space with innovative energy and blue/green infrastructure functions that extend into the neighborhood | 110,000 | 9 | 2016 |
| Arts & Community Life | The Heidelberg Project | Detroit | to support the transition of the Hedielberg Project towards a new form of community arts space | 150,000 | 24 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | The Nature Conservancy | Lansing | to advance green infrastructure (GI) in Detroit by modifying policies to incentivize GI, securing investments under the DWSD stormwater permit, and establishing the conditions for implementation | 1,200,000 | 60 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | The Nature Conservancy | Lansing | to develop a prototype green infrastructure project tracking and communications knowledgebase and web interface for the City of Detroit | 63,000 | 6 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | The Sierra Club Foundation | Oakland | to continue support for the Great Lakes Great Communities Campaign efforts to promote the use of urban "green infrastructure" in Detroit | 75,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Trout Unlimited Inc | Arlington | to engage Trout Unlimited members and other anglers as advocates for Great Lakes restoration | 100,000 | 12 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor | to provide key information to NGO/policy communities on impacts of and effective approaches to managing phosphorus in Maumee River watershed and western Lake Erie | 298,516 | 12 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor | to link stakeholders, science and modeling across Detroit River and Lake Erie watersheds to inform policy and management | 2,994,000 | 36 | 2016 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Wayne State University | Detroit | to address sources of air pollution, providing organizational support and coordination for the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, coordinating an Air Quality Advisory Committee | 375,000 | 36 | 2016 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Wayne State University | Detroit | to support Detroit's environmental sustainability through a partnership between the Detroit Revitalization Fellows Program (DRF) and community-based organizations focused on environmental health, justice and equitable development and to support a collaborative project to address an environmental issue (to be selected by the fellows) that will impact Detroit's future | 399,843 | 17 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Wayne State University | Detroit | to improve Great Lakes water quality by connecting regional and bi-national science for monitoring, preventing and mitigating urban stresses in the Huron to Erie corridor | 650,000 | 36 | 2016 |
| Great Lakes | Alliance For The Great Lakes | Grand Haven | to move water-related local and regional planning forward to achieve on-the-ground results and policy improvements in Detroit while inspiring citizen engagement | 60,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Arts & Community Life | Allied Media Projects | Detroit | an 18-month long series of art programs along the Detroit/Hamtramck border by Power House Productions that generate collaboration, community, artistic development and economic development | 79,500 | 12 | 2015 |
| Alzheimer's Research | Alzheimers Disease And Related Disorders Association, Inc. | Chicago | to support peer-reviewed, donor-directed leading research aimed to prevent, treat, and ultimately cure Alzheimer's disease through the Zenith Research Grant program | 600,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Arts & Scraps | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Jazz Education | Arts League Of Michigan Inc | Detroit | to continue and expand the youth jazz education program | 50,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Central Detroit Christian Community Development Corporation | Detroit | to improve and sustain an aquaponics system raising fish and produce in a repurposed corner liquor store | 110,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Great Lakes | Clean Water Fund | Clinton Township | to bring necessary attention to the need for infrastructure improvements to better manage and protect water quality in the Lake St. Clair area | 10,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | College for Creative Studies | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for CCS' non-degree community arts education and outreach programs | 50,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Arts & Community Life | College for Creative Studies | Detroit | to partner with Detroit Future City and The Greening of Detroit to create four large community-generated public art projects for Detroit's neighborhoods. | 150,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Cranbrook Educational Community | Bloomfield Hills | for unrestricted general operating support for Cranbrooks' cultural and arts programs, including its community education and outreach programs | 200,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Creative Many Michigan | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | CultureSource | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 70,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Artists Market | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Childrens Choir Inc | Detroit | General Operating Support: Anchor Arts | 20,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Eastside Community Collaborative Inc. (DECC) | Detroit | to continue to support efforts to link greenways on Detroit's Eastside, through a collaborative framework for implementation including incorporation of stormwater management strategies | 5,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Economic Growth Association | Detroit | to support Detroit Future City's development of the Vacant Lot Transformation Guide | 80,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Educational Television Foundation | Wixom | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Educational Television Foundation | Wixom | to work with partners to create, curate and distribute multi-platform content embracing Basin matters (policy, research, restoration, economy, land use, recreation) to inspire informed, responsible action | 850,000 | 37 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Historical Society | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Institute of Arts | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation | Harper Woods | to continue and expand the youth jazz education program | 50,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation | Harper Woods | to continue and expand the youth jazz education program | 50,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Public Library Friends Foundation Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 30,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Detroit | to continue support for the youth jazz education programs | 50,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Detroit | to continue support for the youth jazz education programs | 50,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Zoological Society | Royal Oak | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice | Detroit | for renewed general operating support | 75,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Great Lakes | Eastern Market Corporation | Detroit | to develop stormwater management practices, organizational structure and funding mechanisms to establish a Stormwater Management District as part of the Market's 2025 Strategy. | 75,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Great Lakes | Eastside Community Network | Detroit | to continue the Lower East Side Action Plan (LEAP) on the lower east side of Detroit | 250,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Ecology Center Inc | Ann Arbor | for renewed general operating support | 100,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Special Opportunities | EcoWorks | Detroit | to expand and solidify the Youth Energy Squad as a self-sustaining, national model for comprehensive green schools and youth leadership development programs | 300,000 | 35 | 2015 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | EcoWorks | Detroit | to continue support for the Great Lakes Bioneers | 10,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | EcoWorks | Detroit | to continue support for the Great Lakes Bioneers | 10,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Fair Food Network | Ann Arbor | to expand Double Up Food Bucks in direct markets and groceries, leveraging federal monies and building evidence so food assistance policy expands funding made available through the Farm Bill | 100,000 | 48 | 2015 |
| Special Opportunities | Foundation for Detroit's Future | Detroit | for a multi-year commitment to support the "Grand Bargain" as part of a coalition of funders | 10,000,000 | 240 | 2015 |
| Great Lakes | Freshwater Future | Petoskey | to continue a neighborhood climate resilience mini-grants program to support small-scale projects, educate residents and reduce pollution | 35,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Great Lakes | Friends Of The Rouge | Dearborn | to explore potential merger between Friends of the Rouge and Alliance of Rouge Communities | 70,000 | 18 | 2015 |
| Arts & Community Life | Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation | Detroit | to install a public art project that will reflect the spirit of community through a unique, quality installation that will integrate art into Stoepel Park, a heavily utilized recreational area | 20,000 | 3 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Heritage Works | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Arts & Community Life | Heritage Works | Detroit | to complete development of a park at the corner of MLK and Rosa Parks | 100,000 | 18 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Insideout Literary Arts Project | Detroit | for general operating support | 50,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Great Lakes | Joy-Southfield Community Development Corporation | Detroit | to design and engineer a Transportation Alternative Program for Joy Road that creates a safe, green, esthetically pleasing and vibrant commercial corridor | 80,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Great Lakes | Keep Growing Detroit | Detroit | for the "Growing Sustainable Water Solutions" project, a collaboration of Keep Growing Detroit, Sierra Club and Friends of The Rouge, to educate and enable residents to build rain gardens, water catchment systems and healthy soils to help manage stormwater and conserve water | 383,000 | 36 | 2015 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Keep Growing Detroit | Detroit | to continue to support Keep Growing Detroit's efforts to promote food sovereignty in Detroit by distributing resources, hosting education and community events, and building capacity to decentralize and broaden leadership | 50,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Living Arts | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for Living Arts | 50,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Marygrove College | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for the Institute of Music & Dance's non-degree community outreach arts programs | 20,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Michigan Environmental Council | Lansing | to continue to advocate at a state-wide level on environmental health, justice, and water issues facing metro Detroit | 50,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Special Opportunities | Michigan Environmental Council | Lansing | for a planning grant to coordinate Zero Waste Detroit's community outreach with school based and other outreach programs to inspire residents to participate in Detroit's citywide curbside recycling program | 7,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Special Opportunities | Michigan Environmental Council | Lansing | to support a partnership of Zero Waste Detroit and Green Living Science to conduct an intensive community engagement campaign to make Detroit's new curbside recycling program a major success | 350,000 | 36 | 2015 |
| Great Lakes | Michigan League Of Conservation Voters Education Fund | Ann Arbor | to convene Michigan's environmental community in order to prioritize three top issues and advocate for these issues in the legislature | 50,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Michigan Opera Theatre | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Michigan Science Center | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Jazz Education | Michigan State University | Detroit | to continue support for the youth jazz education programs in Detroit | 50,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Millan Theatre Company | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 30,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Mosaic Youth Theatre Of Detroit | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Motown Museum Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 30,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Music Hall Center For The Performing Arts Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Great Lakes | National Wildlife Federation | Ann Arbor | to support the 10th anniversary Healing Our Waters Restoration Conference in Grand Rapids, MI and the Peter Wege Tribute Luncheon | 25,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Arts & Community Life | Peoples Community Services Of Metropolitan Detroit | Detroit | to engage the entire neighborhood of Delray, especially its youth to learn about and create a mural of the history of Delray | 17,500 | 12 | 2015 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Peoples Community Services Of Metropolitan Detroit | Detroit | the Delray Impact Project to provide environmental health data and capacity to improve quality of life outcomes related to the New International Trade Crossing and industrial impacts. | 60,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Pewabic Pottery | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | PuppetART | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Scarab Club | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Signal Return Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Southwest Detroit Business Association Inc. | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for COMPAS | 20,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Sphinx Organization, Inc. | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Stratford Shakespearean Festival of America | Stratford | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Great Lakes | Student Conservation Association Inc | Arlington | to engage high school and college-aged youth in hands-on conservation service in Detroit | 50,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Arts & Community Life | The Heidelberg Project | Detroit | to continue to build organizational capacity: $75,000 in the form of a 1:4 challenge grant, providing $1 for every $4 raised | 125,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | The Henry Ford | Dearborn | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Great Lakes | The Sierra Club Foundation | Oakland | to continue support for the Great Lakes Great Communities Campaign efforts to promote the use of urban "green infrastructure" in Detroit | 75,000 | 12 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | The Theatre Ensemble Inc. d/b/a Meadow Brook Theatre | Rochester | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Wayne State University | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for Hilberry Theater | 30,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Wayne State University | Detroit | Wayne State University Community Arts & Press | 20,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Wayne State University | Detroit | for unrestricted operating support for WDET-FM | 30,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | YMCA Of Metropolitan Detroit | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2015 |
| Jazz Education | Arts League Of Michigan Inc | Detroit | to continue and expand the youth jazz education program | 50,000 | 12 | 2014 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Economic Growth Association | Detroit | to match an EPA GLRI grant to test and develop methods for improving stormwater management through green infrastructure in the Near Eastside Drainage District of Detroit | 500,000 | 24 | 2014 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Educational Television Foundation | Wixom | for multi-media coverage of Great Lakes Week 2014 in partnership with other media outlets, nonprofit organizations and governmental entities throughout the bi-national Great Lakes region | 100,000 | 12 | 2014 |
| Special Opportunities | Detroit Zoological Society | Royal Oak | to help advance the Zoo's Greenprint by installing an anaerobic digester to process manure into energy and fertilizer and providing free refillable water bottles for low income families | 625,000 | 24 | 2014 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice | Detroit | for general operating support | 75,000 | 12 | 2014 |
| Great Lakes | Eastside Community Network | Detroit | to continue the Lower East Side Action Plan (LEAP) on the lower east side of Detroit | 100,000 | 12 | 2014 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Ecology Center Inc | Ann Arbor | for renewed general operating support | 100,000 | 12 | 2014 |
| Great Lakes | Freshwater Future | Petoskey | to provide regrants and related technical assistance to fund community based climate adaptation projects in the Detroit area | 35,000 | 12 | 2014 |
| Great Lakes | Friends Of The Rouge | Dearborn | for continued general operating support | 105,000 | 36 | 2014 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Insideout Literary Arts Project | Detroit | for general operating support | 25,000 | 12 | 2014 |
| Great Lakes | Lambert Sanctuaries | Detroit | continue to develop green infrastructure and other green technologies demonstration projects and related education in the North End | 20,000 | 12 | 2014 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Michigan Environmental Council | Lansing | to continue to advocate at a state-wide level on environmental health, justice, and water issues facing metro Detroit | 50,000 | 12 | 2014 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Michigan Science Center | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 25,000 | 12 | 2014 |
| Jazz Education | Michigan State University | Detroit | to continue support for the youth jazz education programs in Detroit | 50,000 | 12 | 2014 |
| Arts & Community Life | Midtown Detroit, Inc. | Detroit | to further enable the N'Namdi Center to hire a consultant over six months to draft a strategic campus plan | 15,000 | 12 | 2014 |
| Special Opportunities | Mosaic Youth Theatre Of Detroit | Detroit | for a one-to-one individual giving match supporting a partnership with Thompson Educational Foundation establishing Mosaic as "Arts Organization in Residence" at University Prep Science/Math Elementary in Detroit | 70,000 | 12 | 2014 |
| Great Lakes | The Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority | Exeter | to implement actions to continue to improve water quality for the Bayfield River, Lake Huron in Ontario: $34,000 in 2014, $33,000 in each of 2015 and 2016 | 100,000 | 33 | 2014 |
| Arts & Community Life | The Heidelberg Project | Detroit | to continue to build organizational capacity: $100,000 in the form of a challenge grant requiring a 1:1 match | 125,000 | 12 | 2014 |
| Great Lakes | The Sierra Club Foundation | Oakland | to continue support for the Great Lakes Great Communities Campaign efforts to promote the use of urban "green infrastructure" in Detroit | 75,000 | 12 | 2014 |
| Great Lakes | Alliance For The Great Lakes | Grand Haven | to continue and expand the Alliance's work in southeast Michigan | 30,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Arts & Scraps | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Jazz Education | Arts League Of Michigan Inc | Detroit | to continue and expand the youth jazz education program | 50,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Great Lakes | Belle Isle Conservancy | Detroit | to hire a volunteer/membership coordinator | 50,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Great Lakes | Clinton River Watershed Council | Rochester Hills | for general operating support: $45,000 per year over 3 years | 135,000 | 36 | 2013 |
| Great Lakes | Clinton River Watershed Council | Rochester Hills | to hire a Watershed Planner to advance place-based community, economic and ecosystem development that maximizes the potential of the Clinton River and Lake St. Clair | 180,000 | 36 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | College for Creative Studies | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for CCS' non-degree community arts education and outreach programs | 50,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Cranbrook Educational Community | Bloomfield Hills | for unrestricted general operating support for Cranbrooks' cultural and arts programs, including its community education and outreach programs | 200,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Creative Many Michigan | Detroit | to continue the Cultural Data Project and provide other services benefitting metro Detroit arts organizations | 50,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | CultureSource | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Artists Market | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Eastside Community Collaborative Inc. (DECC) | Detroit | to support continued efforts to link greenways on Detroit's Eastside, through a collaborative framework for implementation including incorporation of stormwater management strategies | 10,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Educational Television Foundation | Wixom | for multi-media coverage of Great Lakes Week 2013 in partnership with other media outlets, nonprofit organizations and governmental entities throughout the bi-national Great Lakes region | 100,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Educational Television Foundation | Wixom | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Historical Society | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Institute of Arts | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation | Harper Woods | to continue and expand the youth jazz education program | 50,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Public Library Friends Foundation Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Detroit | to continue support for the youth jazz education programs | 50,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Zoological Society | Royal Oak | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice | Detroit | for capacity building and general operating support | 300,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice | Detroit | to continue support of a collaborative effort to follow up to the 2011 Environmental Summit | 40,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | East Michigan Environmental Action Council Inc | Detroit | for a challenge grant for energy retrofits for EMEAC's Commons Building in Midtown | 60,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Eastern Market Corporation | Detroit | to support Keep Growing Detroit's efforts to promote food sovereignty in Detroit by distributing resources, hosting education and community events, and building capacity to decentralize and broaden leadership | 50,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Great Lakes | Eastside Community Network | Detroit | to continue the Lower East Side Action Plan (LEAP) on the lower east side of Detroit, $150,000 upon the receipt of an executed renewal grant agreement and $20,000 in the form of a challenge grant to create the Project Fund | 170,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Ecology Center Inc | Ann Arbor | for renewed general operating support | 100,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | EcoWorks | Detroit | to continue support for the Great Lakes Bioneers | 10,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Great Lakes | Friends Of The Detroit River | Taylor | for general operating support | 45,000 | 36 | 2013 |
| Great Lakes | Heart Of The Lakes Center For Land Conservation Policy | Grand Ledge | to continue to strengthen capacity of both land conservancies and watershed organizations while working toward cooperative protection of lands that contribute to healthy waters, especially in southeast Michigan | 25,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Heritage Works | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Great Lakes | Huron River Watershed Council | Ann Arbor | to support the RiverUp! initiative to restore and revitalize the Huron River corridor for the benefit of local economies and residents, and conservation of a shared natural heritage | 240,000 | 36 | 2013 |
| Great Lakes | Huron River Watershed Council | Ann Arbor | for continued general operating support | 255,000 | 36 | 2013 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Lambert Sanctuaries | Detroit | to expand an existing neighborhood demonstration home to include educational strategies related to alternative energy and low-impact green infrastructure options | 20,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Great Lakes | Lawrence Technological University | Southfield | to underwrite the production by Issue Media Group of stories of people working on innovative green infrastructure in Detroit | 22,000 | 9 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Living Arts | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for Living Arts ($20,000) and for the Detroit Community Arts Alliance ($30,000) | 50,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Marygrove College | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for the Institute of Music & Dance's non-degree community outreach arts programs | 20,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Arts & Community Life | Matrix Theatre Company | Detroit | to use interactive theater to engage communities in creating a sustainable vision for the southeast Michigan region in partnership with SEMCOG, the Cultural Alliance of Southeast Michigan, Plowshares Theater and others | 90,000 | 36 | 2013 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Michigan Environmental Council | Lansing | to continue to advocate at a state-wide level on environmental health, justice, and water issues facing metro Detroit | 50,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Michigan Environmental Council | Lansing | to strengthen the Zero Waste Detroit coalition's efforts to promote recycling in Detroit | 50,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Michigan Nonprofit Association | Lansing | to further develop and disseminate environmental data | 25,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Michigan Opera Theatre | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Jazz Education | Michigan State University | Detroit | to continue support for the youth jazz education programs in Detroit | 50,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Great Lakes | Michigan United Conservation Clubs | Lansing | to continue work on a long-term funding strategy for Michigan's wetlands program. | 10,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Arts & Community Life | Midtown Detroit, Inc. | Detroit | to enable the N'Namdi Center to hire a consultant over six months to draft a strategic campus plan | 15,000 | 6 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Millan Theatre Company | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 30,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Mosaic Youth Theatre Of Detroit | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Motown Museum Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 30,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Music Hall Center For The Performing Arts Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Great Lakes | National Wildlife Federation | Ann Arbor | for continued support for the Healing Our Waters Coalition: a collaborative effort to promote funding and policy reform for the Great Lakes | 450,000 | 36 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Pewabic Pottery | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | PuppetART | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Rackham Symphony Choir | Grosse Pointe | for unrestricted general operating support | 5,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Scarab Club | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Arts & Community Life | Southwest Detroit Business Association Inc. | Detroit | to transform vacant lots at ML King and Rosa Parks into a pocket park that commemorates two great Americans and community principles | 45,000 | 18 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Southwest Detroit Business Association Inc. | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for COMPAS | 20,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Sphinx Organization, Inc. | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Stratford Shakespearean Festival of America | Stratford | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Great Lakes | The Greening of Detroit | Detroit | to strengthen organizational infrastructures at the Greening and WARM, creating the additional capacity to play a pivotal role in shaping a sustainable future for Detroit including improved water qualify | 300,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | The Henry Ford | Dearborn | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Great Lakes | The Sierra Club Foundation | Oakland | to continue support for the Great Lakes Great Communities Campaign efforts to promote the use of urban "green infrastructure" in Detroit | 75,000 | 12 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | The Theatre Ensemble Inc. d/b/a Meadow Brook Theatre | Rochester | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Great Lakes | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor | to support the Water Center's efforts to convene and support experts across the Great Lakes basin, and conduct related activities, to identify and fill key knowledge gaps in the current Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and to help develop a science framework for the next phase of the GLRI | 4,500,000 | 36 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | VSA Michigan | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Wayne State University | Detroit | for unrestricted operating support for WDET-FM | 30,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Wayne State University | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for Hilberry Theater | 30,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | YMCA Of Metropolitan Detroit | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2013 |
| Great Lakes | Alliance For The Great Lakes | Grand Haven | to continue and expand support for the Alliance's work in southeast Michigan | 30,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Great Lakes | Alliance of Rouge Communities | Canton | to secure and facilitate assistance from the EPA through the Great Lakes Legacy Fund to work with industry to remediate contaminated sediments in the Rouge River Area of Concern | 61,251 | 18 | 2012 |
| Jazz Education | Arts League Of Michigan Inc | Detroit | to continue and expand the youth jazz education program | 50,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Great Lakes | Capuchin Soup Kitchen | Detroit | to fund rainwater harvesting systems at two significant urban farms in the city of Detroit | 132,800 | 18 | 2012 |
| Great Lakes | Clean Water Fund | Clinton Township | to educate residents about ways they can cleanup and protect Lake St. Clair and connect them to governmental efforts with linkages to the lake | 100,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Educational Television Foundation | Wixom | for multi-media coverage of Great Lakes Week 2011 in partnership with other media outlets, nonprofit organizations and governmental entities throughout the bi-national Great Lakes region | 95,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Educational Television Foundation | Wixom | for multi-media coverage of Great Lakes Week 2012 in partnership with other media outlets, nonprofit organizations and governmental entities throughout the bi-national Great Lakes region | 100,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation | Harper Woods | to continue and expand the youth jazz education program | 50,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Detroit | to continue support for the youth jazz education programs | 50,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice | Detroit | to support the network of activists who are organizing to promote environmental justice issues of statewide importance with an emphasis on southeast Michigan | 90,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice | Detroit | to support a collaborative effort to follow up to the 2011 Environmental Summit | 40,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice | Detroit | to continue support for community organizing and public education programs | 75,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | East Michigan Environmental Action Council Inc | Detroit | to continue to support the ReMedia program, which integrates environmental education, multi-media production, and civic engagement to create positive environmental change | 60,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Great Lakes | Eastside Community Network | Detroit | to continue the Lower East Side Action Plan (LEAP) on the lower east side of Detroit | 170,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Ecology Center Inc | Ann Arbor | for renewed general operating support | 100,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | EcoWorks | Detroit | to continue support for the Great Lakes Bioneers | 10,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Fair Food Network | Ann Arbor | PROJECT DESCRIPTION to advance federal policies to improve food access for low income populations | 50,000 | 24 | 2012 |
| Great Lakes | Freshwater Future | Petoskey | to provide regrants and related technical assistance to fund community based climate adaptation projects in the Detroit area | 35,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Great Lakes | Heart Of The Lakes Center For Land Conservation Policy | Grand Ledge | to continue to strengthen capacity of both land conservancies and watershed organizations while working toward cooperative protection of lands that contribute to healthy waters, especially in southeast Michigan | 25,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Arts & Community Life | Insideout Literary Arts Project | Detroit | to hire a Marketing and Communications Director to spread the message of the poetry as an agent of youth empowerment and community revitalization | 50,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Great Lakes | Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation | Blyth | to develop a Bluff Ecosystem Stewardship Guide for Ontario's West Coast. | 26,000 | 6 | 2012 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Michigan Environmental Council | Lansing | to continue to advocate at a state-wide level on environmental health, justice, and water issues facing metro Detroit | 100,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Great Lakes | Michigan League Of Conservation Voters Education Fund | Ann Arbor | to explore the potential of expanding the network of well-connected, conservation-minded individuals in Washtenaw - the Wolfpack - to build support for restoration projects farther downstream | 15,000 | 5 | 2012 |
| Jazz Education | Michigan State University | Detroit | to continue support for the youth jazz education programs in Detroit | 50,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Great Lakes | Michigan United Conservation Clubs | Lansing | to develop and implement a long-term funding strategy for Michigan's wetlands program. | 26,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Arts & Community Life | Midtown Detroit, Inc. | Detroit | to support a new Detroit arts event which will showcase artists who will "light up" buildings and spaces in Midtown Detroit | 50,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Great Lakes | National Wildlife Federation | Ann Arbor | to address ballast water policy and acute risk pathways for Asian Carp beyond Chicago and work with The Nature Conservancy and Great Lakes Commission on coordinated policies to address Aquatic Invasive Species in the Great Lakes | 100,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Special Opportunities | Shar Self Help Addiction Reorientation Foundation | Detroit | to continue support for planning and implementation of a model, large-scale urban agriculture project: Year 4 payment: $150,000 payable in 3 installments contingent on matching funds and other criteria TBD | 1,000,000 | 48 | 2012 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision Project | Detroit | for community organizing and advocacy to secure a community benefits agreement providing environmental mitigations and community redevelopment investment if the New International Trade Crossing is built | 60,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Great Lakes | The Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority | Exeter | to implement actions to improve water quality for the Bayfield River, Lake Huron in Ontario | 100,000 | 33 | 2012 |
| Arts & Community Life | The Heidelberg Project | Detroit | to continue to build organizational capacity, one half in the form of a challenge grant to match donations from individuals on a 1:1 basis | 100,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Great Lakes | The Nature Conservancy | Lansing | to support a collaboration between the Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation, and Great Lakes Commission to address Aquatic Invasive Species in the Great Lakes | 125,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Great Lakes | The Nature Conservancy | Lansing | to continue to support a policy associate to help advance Great Lakes policy and funding at the local, state and federal levels | 85,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Great Lakes | The Sierra Club Foundation | Oakland | to continue support for the Great Lakes Great Communities Campaign efforts to promote the use of urban "green infrastructure" in Detroit | 79,700 | 12 | 2012 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Voices For Earth Justice | Southfield | to help with the sustainable rehabilitation of buildings for a community outreach center in the Brightmoor area of Detroit | 20,000 | 12 | 2012 |
| Arts & Community Life | Wayne State University | Detroit | to build capacity for ArtsCorpsDetroit to serve more community organizations and to assess the role of art in urban revitalization and the volunteer experience | 100,000 | 24 | 2012 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Wayne State University | Detroit | to evaluate a program to improve the health of Southeastern Michigan Anglers | 95,000 | 24 | 2012 |
| Great Lakes | Alliance For The Great Lakes | Grand Haven | to help support the Alliance's new office in southeast Michigan | 15,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Arts & Scraps | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Jazz Education | Arts League Of Michigan Inc | Detroit | to support the youth jazz education program, including education and performance opportunities with professional musicians | 50,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | City Connect Detroit | Detroit | to conduct and map environmental research to benefit the City of Detroit and surrounding communities | 75,000 | 11 | 2011 |
| Great Lakes | Clean Water Fund | Clinton Township | to plan collaborative civic engagement, policy and research programs in Metro Detroit, especially Macomb County, for new models of water efficiency and stormwater and infrastructure improvements | 30,000 | 11 | 2011 |
| Great Lakes | Clinton River Watershed Council | Rochester Hills | to increase individual and group membership | 30,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | College for Creative Studies | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for CCS' non-degree community arts education and outreach programs | 50,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Cranbrook Educational Community | Bloomfield Hills | for unrestricted general operating support for Cranbrooks' cultural and arts programs, including its community education and outreach programs | 200,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Great Lakes | Cranbrook Educational Community | Bloomfield Hills | to create 3 new community gardens to demonstrate freshwater management through green infrastructure in collaboration with Welcome Missionary Baptist Church, Greater Pontiac Community Coalition, Pontiac Garden Club, Pontiac Public Schools, Lawrence Technological University and the Engineering Society of Detroit | 90,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Creative Many Michigan | Detroit | to continue the Cultural Data Project, begin Creative Impact and provide other services benefitting metro Detroit arts organizations | 50,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | CultureSource | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Artists Market | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Economic Growth Association | Detroit | to engage landscape architect consultants as part of the technical team for the Detroit Works Project | 100,000 | 18 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Educational Television Foundation | Wixom | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation | Detroit | to continue support for a policy advocacy initiative to address health disparities and environmental justice in Southwest Detroit | 30,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Historical Society | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Institute of Arts | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation | Harper Woods | to continue support for the Detroit school-based youth jazz education program, including education and performance opportunities with professional musicians | 50,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Public Library Friends Foundation Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Science Center Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 25,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Detroit | to continue to support for the youth jazz education programs | 50,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Zoological Society | Royal Oak | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice | Detroit | to continue support for community organizing and public education programs | 75,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | East Michigan Environmental Action Council Inc | Detroit | to expand the ReMedia program, which integrates environmental education, multi-media production, and civic engagement to create positive environmental change | 60,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Eastern Market Corporation | Detroit | to help expand the local food system in Detroit by creating a community kitchen to incubate new food ventures and increase access to locally grown or processed healthy food | 200,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Great Lakes | Eastside Community Network | Detroit | to expand the Lower East Side Action Plan (LEAP), a multi-agency community-based planning process to determine equitable, productive and environmentally sustainable re-use of vacant land on Detroit's lower eastside | 146,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Ecology Center Inc | Ann Arbor | for general operating support | 100,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | EcoWorks | Detroit | to continue support for the Great Lakes Bioneers | 10,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Fair Food Network | Ann Arbor | to match a grant from the Open Society Institute to increase the purchasing power of low-income families for fresh produce, support the local food economy and inform future federal food assistance policy | 25,000 | 11 | 2011 |
| Great Lakes | Friends Of The Rouge | Dearborn | for general operating support | 105,000 | 36 | 2011 |
| Great Lakes | Friends Of The Rouge | Dearborn | to support the volunteer benthic macroinvertebrate sampling program as part of a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative program to create or restore 25 acres of green infrastructure and improve wildlife habitat in Detroit and in Wayne County | 80,000 | 23 | 2011 |
| Great Lakes | Heart Of The Lakes Center For Land Conservation Policy | Grand Ledge | to strengthen capacity of both land conservancies and watershed organizations while working toward cooperative protection of lands that contribute to healthy waters, especially in southeast Michigan | 25,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Heritage Works | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Great Lakes | International Wildlife Refuge Alliance | Grosse Ile | to extend outreach and create public awareness of the Detroit International Wildlife Refuge Alliance, North America's first and only international wildlife refuge | 50,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Great Lakes | Lawrence Technological University | Southfield | to develop a stormwater management educational trail for the Great Lakes Stormwater Management Institute | 57,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Living Arts | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Marygrove College | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for the Institute of Music & Dance's non-degree community outreach arts programs | 20,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Michigan Environmental Council | Lansing | to continue to advocate at a state-wide level on environmental health, justice, and water issues facing metro Detroit | 100,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Great Lakes | Michigan League Of Conservation Voters Education Fund | Ann Arbor | to strengthen the capacity of environmental and allied organizations in Southeast Michigan for policy work | 30,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Michigan Opera Theatre | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Jazz Education | Michigan State University | Detroit | to continue support for the youth jazz education programs in Detroit | 50,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Millan Theatre Company | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 30,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Mosaic Youth Theatre Of Detroit | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Motown Museum Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 30,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Music Hall Center For The Performing Arts Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Great Lakes | National Wildlife Federation | Ann Arbor | to develop a multi-state coordinated rapid response and monitoring effort to eradicate aquatic invasive species in the Great Lakes and address acute risk pathways for Asian Carp beyond Chicago | 100,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Pewabic Pottery | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | PuppetART | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Rackham Symphony Choir | Grosse Pointe | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Great Lakes | River Network | Portland | to examine and advance opportunities for greater coordination among municipalities to use green infrastructure to minimize climate impacts, improve water efficiency, and promote green jobs | 60,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Scarab Club | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Special Opportunities | Shar Self Help Addiction Reorientation Foundation | Detroit | to continue support for a participatory process to develop a model, large-scale urban agriculture project on Detroit's east side that will promote productive and sustainable land use and jobs | 100,000 | 3 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Southwest Detroit Business Association Inc. | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for COMPAS | 20,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Sphinx Organization, Inc. | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Stratford Shakespearean Festival of America | Stratford | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | The Henry Ford | Dearborn | for unrestricted general operating support | 200,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Great Lakes | The Sierra Club Foundation | Oakland | for the Great Lakes Great Communities Campaign efforts to promote the use of urban "green infrastructure" in Detroit. | 75,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | The Theatre Ensemble Inc. d/b/a Meadow Brook Theatre | Rochester | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Great Lakes | University Of Detroit Mercy | Detroit | to support a full-time landscape architect at the Detroit Collaborative Design Center to ensure focus on ecologically low impact development and water management as part of the urban transformation of Detroit | 50,000 | 11 | 2011 |
| Special Opportunities | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor | for a challenge grant to provide scholarships for students of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise | 200,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | VSA Michigan | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 20,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Wayne State University | Detroit | to continue support for the Environmental Law Clinic | 25,000 | 12 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Wayne State University | Detroit | for unrestricted operating support for WDET-FM | 30,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Wayne State University | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for Hilberry Theater | 30,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | YMCA Of Metropolitan Detroit | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 50,000 | 24 | 2011 |
| Alzheimer's Research | Alzheimers Disease And Related Disorders Association, Inc. | Chicago | to support peer-reviewed, donor-directed leading research aimed to prevent, treat, and ultimately cure Alzheimer's disease, $100,000/year for New Investigative Research Grants and $200,000/year for Zenith Research Grants | 1,300,000 | 60 | 2010 |
| Arts & Community Life | Ann Arbor Hands On Museum | Ann Arbor | to develop local environmental concern and activism in five communities in metro Detroit through a library-based arts program | 85,500 | 9 | 2010 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Arab Community Center For Economic & Social Services Access | Dearborn | to enhance community education, awareness and advocacy of environmental issues through engagement of community members in skill-based action, career development and policy change | 65,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Arts & Scraps | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 10,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Arts League Of Michigan Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 25,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Jazz Education | Arts League Of Michigan Inc | Detroit | to support the youth jazz education program, including education and performance opportunities with professional musicians | 35,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Jazz Education | Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center Inc | Birmingham | for a final year of support for the ArtBridge program, which educates and connects artistically talented, low-income high school art students in Southeast Michigan to higher education in the visual arts and ultimately to viable art careers | 35,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 25,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Great Lakes | Clinton River Watershed Council | Rochester Hills | for general operating support | 115,000 | 36 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | College for Creative Studies | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for CCS' non-degree community arts education and outreach programs | 25,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Cranbrook Educational Community | Bloomfield Hills | for unrestricted general operating support for Cranbrooks' cultural and arts programs, including its community education and outreach programs | 100,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Creative Many Michigan | Detroit | for the Cultural Data Project and services benefitting metro Detroit arts organizations | 25,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | CultureSource | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 25,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Arts & Community Life | CultureSource | Detroit | to support a planning process for a new initiative to increase attendance and participation of arts and culture programs of more than 100 organizations in southeast Michigan | 25,000 | 4 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Artists Market | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 10,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Educational Television Foundation | Wixom | for unrestricted general operating support | 100,000 | 11 | 2010 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation | Detroit | to continue support for a policy advocacy initiative to address health disparities and environmental justice in Southwest Detroit | 60,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Historical Society | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 25,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Institute of Arts | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 100,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation | Harper Woods | to continue support for the Detroit school-based youth jazz education program, including education and performance opportunities with professional musicians | 37,500 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Public Library Friends Foundation Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 25,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Special Opportunities | Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, Inc. | Detroit | for general operating support with emphasis on environmental education and public art | 1,000,000 | 60 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 100,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Detroit | to continue to support for the youth jazz education programs | 50,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Detroit Zoological Society | Royal Oak | for unrestricted general operating support | 100,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice | Detroit | to continue support for community organizing and public education programs | 60,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | East Michigan Environmental Action Council Inc | Detroit | to expand the ReMedia program, which integrates environmental education, multi-media production, and civic engagement to create positive environmental change | 60,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Great Lakes | Eastside Community Network | Detroit | to support data analysis and community outreach and education for a community-based planning process to determine appropriate, environmentally sustainable re-uses of vacant land on Detroit's lower eastside | 120,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Ecology Center Inc | Ann Arbor | for general operating support | 100,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | EcoWorks | Detroit | to expand the Detroit Youth Energy Squad, building future environmental leaders amongst low-income youth through a youth employment and training program on climate change and home weatherization | 50,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | EcoWorks | Detroit | to expand the operations of the Great Lakes Bioneers | 10,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Fair Food Network | Ann Arbor | to develop a federal funding stream to develop more healthy and sustainably-grown food in Detroit and Southeast Michigan | 100,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Great Lakes | Friends Of The Detroit River | Taylor | for general operating support | 45,000 | 36 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Heritage Works | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 10,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Great Lakes | Huron River Watershed Council | Ann Arbor | for general operating support | 255,000 | 36 | 2010 |
| Arts & Community Life | Insideout Literary Arts Project | Detroit | for a multi-arts, community-based year-long celebration of women poets in partnership with Detroit Public Television, Arts League of Michigan, Matrix Theatre Company, Wayne State University Press and others | 100,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Living Arts | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 10,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Arts & Community Life | Luella Hannan Memorial Foundation | Detroit | to support a community designed public art sculpture and rain garden at Hannan House, engaging senior artists, local artists and volunteers, as part of Detroit's Midtown Loop Public Art Plan | 15,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Marygrove College | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for the Institute of Music & Dance's non-degree community outreach arts programs | 10,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Arts & Community Life | Matrix Theatre Company | Detroit | to develop puppetry/writing workshops about the city's buried streams, ponds, and lakes | 150,000 | 36 | 2010 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Michigan Environmental Council | Lansing | to strengthen the connections between the Detroit program and state policy work on environmental health, justice, and water issues | 100,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Great Lakes | Michigan League Of Conservation Voters Education Fund | Ann Arbor | to strengthen the capacity of environmental and allied organizations in Southeast Michigan for policy work | 30,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Michigan Opera Theatre | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 25,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Jazz Education | Michigan State University | Detroit | to continue support for the youth jazz education programs in Detroit | 50,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Millan Theatre Company | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 15,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Motown Museum Inc | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 15,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 25,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Arts & Community Life | Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit | Detroit | to hire a development director and create a strategic development plan | 120,000 | 18 | 2010 |
| Great Lakes | National Wildlife Federation | Ann Arbor | to support the Healing Our Waters Coalition: a collaborative effort to promote funding and policy reform for the Great Lakes and assistance for organizations conducting Great Lakes restoration projects | 450,000 | 36 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Pewabic Pottery | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 25,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | PuppetART | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 10,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Rackham Symphony Choir | Grosse Pointe | for unrestricted general operating support | 10,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Scarab Club | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 10,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Science & Environmental Health Network | Ames | to use research on complex environmental influences on Alzheimer's disease as a case study to leverage policy changes to address interrelated public health and environmental problems | 75,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Special Opportunities | Shar Self Help Addiction Reorientation Foundation | Detroit | to support a participatory process to develop an urban farm for recovering substance abusers and members from the broader community | 25,000 | 8 | 2010 |
| Great Lakes | Six Rivers Regional Land Conservancy | Rochester | to create a model wetlands databank and outreach program in Oakland and Macomb Counties to identify the highest priority wetlands and connect landowners with wetlands with those in need of performing mitigation | 100,000 | 24 | 2010 |
| Arts & Community Life | Southwest Housing Solutions Corporation | Detroit | for a storm water mitigation and demonstration project as part of a new creative arts center in southwest Detroit | 75,000 | 24 | 2010 |
| Great Lakes | The Greening of Detroit | Detroit | to test a new vacant land reclamation model that will create swaths of newly forested land in Detroit to mitigate storm water runoff | 160,000 | 18 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | The Henry Ford | Dearborn | for unrestricted general operating support | 100,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Great Lakes | The Nature Conservancy | Lansing | to support a policy associate to help advance Great Lakes policy and funding at the local, state and federal levels | 170,000 | 24 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | The Theatre Ensemble Inc. d/b/a Meadow Brook Theatre | Rochester | for unrestricted general operating support | 25,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Great Lakes | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor | to engage stakeholders and create cumulative impact maps (threats, resources and human impact) of the Great Lakes ecosystem to guide conservation decisions | 500,000 | 24 | 2010 |
| Great Lakes | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor | For interim planning for a project to map threats to the Great Lakes | 8,500 | 12 | 2010 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Vanguard Community Development Corporation | Detroit | to build the capacity of residents in the Northend neighborhood of Detroit to proactively address environmental hazards | 100,000 | 24 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | VSA Michigan | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support | 10,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Wayne State University | Detroit | to expand healthy,sustainable food choices for households on Detroit's east side in partnership with Earthworks Urban Farm, Eastern Market and others | 90,000 | 24 | 2010 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Wayne State University | Detroit | to hire a full time coordinator for the Environmental Law Clinic | 25,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Wayne State University | Detroit | for unrestricted operating support for WDET-FM | 15,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Wayne State University | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for the Elaine Jacob Art Gallery and the Art Department Gallery | 10,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Anchor Arts Organizations | Wayne State University | Detroit | for unrestricted general operating support for Hilberry Theater | 15,000 | 12 | 2010 |
| Jazz Education | Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center Inc | Birmingham | to help educate and connect talented, low-income high school art students in Southeast Michigan to higher education in the visual arts and ultimately to viable art careers | 35,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Great Lakes | Clinton River Watershed Council | Rochester Hills | for general operating support | 33,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Arts & Community Life | Cranbrook Educational Community | Bloomfield Hills | to support Artology: The Fusion of Art and Science at Cranbrook, a collaborative exhibition and education effort between the Institute of Science and Art Museum | 100,000 | 8 | 2009 |
| Special Opportunities | Detroit Educational Television Foundation | Wixom | for the "Because Minds Matter" Capital Campaign (Challenge Grant) | 500,000 | 60 | 2009 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation | Detroit | to help create a policy advocacy initiative to address health disparities and environmental justice in Southwest Detroit | 75,000 | 11 | 2009 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation | Harper Woods | for educational programs throughout the year, including a visiting artist in residence and school based programs | 40,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Great Lakes | Detroit Science Center Inc | Detroit | for a challenge grant to construct the Clean Water Through Greenengineering exhibit collection | 125,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Jazz Education | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Detroit | to support intensive jazz education for artistically talented youth | 50,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Detroiters Working For Environmental Justice | Detroit | to expand DWEJ's capacity for community organizing and education | 75,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | East Michigan Environmental Action Council Inc | Detroit | to build organizational capacity to expand the Environmental Justice Re-Media program | 30,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Ecology Center Inc | Ann Arbor | for general operating support | 100,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Special Opportunities | Forgotten Harvest, Inc. | Oak Park | to distribute fresh food to vulnerable famlies in metro Detroit using rescured perishible food (this was one of three, one-time special grants approved by the Foundation in December 2008 totalling $500,000 to help meet the immediate, short term needs of individuals affected by the economic downturn) | 125,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Great Lakes | Friends Of The Detroit River | Taylor | for general operating support | 15,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Great Lakes | Friends Of The Rouge | Dearborn | for general operating support | 35,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Great Lakes | Huron River Watershed Council | Ann Arbor | for general operating support | 75,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Jazz Education | Insideout Literary Arts Project | Detroit | for general operating support. | 50,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Environmental Health, Justice & Equitable Dev | Michigan Environmental Council | Lansing | to strengthen the connections between the Detroit program and state policy work on environmental health, justice, and water issues | 100,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Jazz Education | Michigan State University | Detroit | to provide advanced jazz education for urban youth through MSU [email protected] | 50,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Jazz Education | Mosaic Youth Theatre Of Detroit | Detroit | for general operating support, one-half of the grant in the form of a challenge to match new or increased contributions from individuals on a two to one basis | 100,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Jazz Education | Music Hall Center For The Performing Arts Inc | Detroit | to continue and expand an experiential Jazz education program | 40,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Special Opportunities | Salvation Army | Southfield | for emergency holiday and year-round assistance to families (this was one of three, one-time special grants approved by the Foundation in December 2008 totalling $500,000 to help meet the immediate, short term needs of individuals affected by the economic downturn) | 250,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Jazz Education | Sphinx Organization, Inc. | Detroit | to support the Sphinx Preparatory Music Institute and Sphinx Overture programs, one-half of the grant in the form of a challenge to match new or increased contributions from individuals on a two to one basis | 100,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Special Opportunities | THAW | Detroit | to provide energy assistance to low-income families and individuals (this was one of three, one-time special grants approved by the Foundation in December 2008 totalling $500,000 to help meet the immediate, short term needs of individuals affected by the economic downturn) | 125,000 | 12 | 2009 |
| Arts & Community Life | The Heidelberg Project | Detroit | to hire a development director and program site development director to help implement the strategic plan for a cultural village (payable over 2 years, with the addition in year 2 of $25,000 in funding and the requirement of a dollar-for-dollar match for $50,000 of the $75,000) | 125,000 | 24 | 2009 |
| Great Lakes | The Nature Conservancy | Lansing | to complete the Lake Huron conservation planning process | 100,000 | 24 | 2009 |
| Jazz Education | YMCA Of Metropolitan Detroit | Detroit | to develop a program that will teach 40-50 urban teens digital arts skills through a focus on environmental issues | 100,000 | 12 | 2009 |