The Village Club Foundation
Bloomfield Hills, MI · EIN 38-1690100. Reported 65 grants totalling $756,600 to 40 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Village Club Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 38% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $8,600. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $13,300; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $35,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossroads of Michigan | Detroit, MI | $59,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New Hope Center for Grief Support Inc | Northville, MI | $45,450 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pink Fund Inc | Bingham Farms, MI | $38,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cares of Farmington Hills Inc | Farmingtn Hls, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Open Hands Food Pantry | Royal Oak, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Far Conservatory of Therapeutic and Performing Arts | Birmingham, MI | $34,300 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St John Fisher Chapel University Parish Auburn Hills | Auburn Hills, MI | $34,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Community Assistance Program Incorp | Detroit, MI | $33,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ladies of Charity of St Vincent Depaul Oakland County Association | Bloomfld Hls, MI | $33,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| National Assistance League | Rochester, MI | $27,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance | Detroit, MI | $25,900 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Variety Club Charity for Children Inc | Birmingham, MI | $25,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| On My Own of Michigan | Troy, MI | $23,300 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Accent Pontiac Inc | Pontiac, MI | $21,300 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Furnitur E Bank of Detroit | Madison Hts, MI | $20,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Good Shepherd Lutheran Church | Royal Oak, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | Southfield, MI | $19,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Christ Child Society of Detroit | Detroit, MI | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rebuilding Together Southeast Michigan | Farmington Hills, MI | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Care House of Oakland County Inc | Pontiac, MI | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Alliance for a Safer Greater Detroit | Southfield, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oakland Literacy Council | Pontiac, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Metropolitan United Methodist Church | Detroit, MI | $13,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Camp Casey Corporation | Farmingtn Hls, MI | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Racquet Up Detroit | Detroit, MI | $12,950 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bethany Presbyterian Manor | Detroit, MI | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Detroit Horse Power | Detroit, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Seedlings Braille Books for Children | Livonia, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Detroit Creativity Project | Farmingtn Hls, MI | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Faith Works Michigan | Rochester Hls, MI | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Annes Mead | Southfield, MI | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Troy Nature Society | Troy, MI | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Midnight Golf Program | Detroit, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Children-Detroit | Detroit, MI | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Troy Community Coalition-for the Prevention of Drug and Alcohol | Troy, MI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mercy Education Project | Detroit, MI | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hope Against Trafficking | Pontiac, MI | $5,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gigis Playhouse Inc | Hoffman Est, IL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Team Guts | Beverly Hills, MI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| World Medical Relief Incorporated | Southfield, MI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
16 of 40 (40%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Far Conservatory of Therapeutic and Performing Arts
SCHOLARSHIPS TO COVER SUPPLIES AND HIGHLY TRAINED ART AND MUSIC THERAPISTS. - Crossroads of Michigan
OPERATIONAL SUPPORT FOR ORGANIZATION THAT SUPPLIES BASIC NEEDS - Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance
CHILDHOOD LITERACY PROGRAM - Assistance League of Se Mi
CLOTHING, TOILETRIES FOR CHILDREN - Catholic Community Response Team
WOMEN'S HOUSING ASSISTANCE - Alliance for a Safer Greater Detroit
VARIOUS INITIATIVES FOR A SAFER DETROIT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 40 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 20 | $311,000 | $15,000 |
| 2021 | 7 | $75,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 15 | $160,700 | $8,000 |
| 2023 | 12 | $128,500 | $8,050 |
| 2024 | 11 | $81,400 | $7,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Michigan. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $8,600 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Michigan.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Village Club Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 11 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 190 E Long Lake Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 48304.
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