Forgotten Harvest Inc
Oak Park, MI · EIN 38-2926476. Reported 41 grants totalling $1,317,783 to 38 organizations across tax years 2022-2023, 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 Forgotten Harvest Inc, the IRS classifies it under food & nutrition rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE K31M) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 38 distinct organizations, with 11% 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. 75% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,544. Half of what it reported fell between $12,698 and $39,310; the smallest was $5,459 and the largest $111,746. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City Covenant Church-Detroit Mi | Detroit, MI | $149,996 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Gods Storehouse | Highland Park, MI | $126,633 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hartford Memorial Baptist Church | Detroit, MI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Redford Interfaith Relief | Redford, MI | $95,298 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yad Ezra Inc | Berkley, MI | $75,550 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alliance of Warren Evangelicals | Warren, MI | $48,135 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cass Community Social Services Inc | Detroit, MI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Renaissance Vineyard Church | Ferndale, MI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Salvation Army | Southfield, MI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Patrick Senior Center Inc | Detroit, MI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Metropolitan United Methodist Churchgood Samaritan Ministry | Detroit, MI | $39,847 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fish & Loaves | Taylor, MI | $39,310 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Zion Community Enrichment Center Inc | Ferndale, MI | $39,098 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oakland Hope | Pontiac, MI | $38,291 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Twelfth Street Food Pantry | Detroit, MI | $36,374 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grace Centers of Hope | Pontiac, MI | $34,794 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Covenant House Michigan | Detroit, MI | $32,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Belleville Church of God | Belleville, MI | $29,818 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Church of Christ Westside | Detroit, MI | $26,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central Detroit Christian Community Development Corporation | Detroit, MI | $25,544 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chaldean American Ladies of Charity | Troy, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gospel Tabernacle Inc | Detroit, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Operation Get Down Inc | Detroit, MI | $19,626 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Redeemed Christian Fellowship International Inc | Detroit, MI | $19,208 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Crossroads of Michigan | Detroit, MI | $18,640 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Church of the Transfiguraton Southfield | Southfield, MI | $13,557 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Detroit Friendship House Inc | Hamtramck, MI | $13,269 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Turning Point Inc | Mount Clemens, MI | $12,698 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Victory Fellowship | Southfield, MI | $11,528 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Communities in Schools of Michigan Inc | Lansing, MI | $10,108 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Open Door Outreach Center Inc | Waterford, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hospitality House | Commerce Twp, MI | $9,144 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| South Oakland Shelter | Pontiac, MI | $8,914 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Second New Hope Baptist Church - Missionary - | Ferndale, MI | $8,676 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Saint Mary Cause of Our Joy Parish | Westland, MI | $7,493 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan | Southfield, MI | $5,960 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Macomb County Veterans Food Bank | Clinton Twp, MI | $5,815 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Haven of Hope Community Outreach Inc | Sterling Hts, MI | $5,459 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
3 of 38 (8%) received money in more than one year over the 2 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.
- City Covenant Church
UPGRADE COMMERCIAL KITCHEN, CREATE CLIENT CHOICE PANTRY, TRAIN STAFF, EXPAND HOME DELIVERY - God's Storehouse
VAN TO EXPAND FOOD DELIVERY, IMPROVE LOGISTICS AND INCREASE VOLUNTEERS - Redford Interfaith Relief
PAVE PARKING LOT, RENOVATE BUILDING, EXPAND DELIVERY SERVICE AND PANTRY HOURS, STAFFING - Yad Ezra
EXPAND VEGETABLE GARDEN AND ADD FRUIT TREES TO PROVIDE CULTURALLY-SPECIFIC FOOD FOR CLIENTS - St Patrick Senior Center Inc
REPLACE REFRIGERATOR AND FREEZER - Cass Community Social Services
KITCHEN EQUIPMENT REPAIRS AND REPLACEMENT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4 | $244,736 | $63,587 |
| 2023 | 37 | $1,073,047 | $25,544 |
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
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $25,544 -- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Forgotten Harvest Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 37 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: 15000 W Eight Mile, Oak Park, MI, 48237.
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