How much did 482 FORWARD grant in FY2024?

482 FORWARD reported 9 grants totaling $124,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

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· Public charity

482 FORWARD

We are creating a detroit where every student graduates ready to become a fully engaged participant in the world, equipped with the character and the capacity to negotiate his/her environment and change it for the better.

$124k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$23k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of 482 FORWARD’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

STUDENT ADVOCACY CENTER OF$23,000
CENTER FOR AFROCENTRIC THOUGHT$11,000
URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES$10,000
MACOMB INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,000
DETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT$10,000
DEVELOPING KIDS$10,000
EASTSIDE COMMUNITY NETWORK$10,000
DETROIT HEALS DETROIT$10,000
CONGRESS OF COMMUNITIES$10,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$246k · 8 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +264% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$246k

$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+264%

+11%

Still filing today

75%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Community ImprovementHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

STUDENT ADVOCACY CENTER OF
2× · 2023–2024 · $58k · revenue +29%
URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES
2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +112%
DETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT
2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +161%

Funded once

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OAKLAND FORWARD
one grant, 2023 · $25k
WT
WE THE PEOPLE MICHIGAN
one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -28%
SM
SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN
one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Dream of Detroit

Dream of Detroit is combining community organizing with strategic housing and land development to build a healthy community and empower a marginalized neighborhood on the Westside of Detroit.

Human Services

Detroit Cultivator Community Land Trust

The maintenance and beautification of vacant land inside of a community

Food & Nutrition

We the People of Detroit

Dedicated to community coaltion building, and providing vehicles that inform, train, and mobilize the citzens of the city of detroit and beyond to improve their quality of life.

Human Services

United Community Housing Coalition

To provide comprehensive housing assistance to low-income residents primarily in detroit, michigan.

Housing & Shelter

Urban Community Network

Urban Community Network UCN is a non-profit organization that promotes safe, healthy, sustainable communities where youth and their families can thrive.

Human Services

Northend Christian Community Development Corporation

North End CDC services the historic North End community of Detroit MI . The program specializes in providing workforce and youth development.

Community Improvement

The Youth Connection Inc

The Youth Connection is committed to connecting all youth and their families in metro Detroit to a brighter future by providing quality programs and supportive services.

Youth Development

Detroit Community Solutions Inc

Our mission is to provide sustainable solutions to community challenges. We exist to fill gaps in commmunity developement by implementing and taking to scale programs and services that provide clean, safe, and healthy environments and…

Community Improvement

The Michigan Center for Civic Education

To promote and support the development of engaged, responsible citizens. The Michigan Center for Civic Education (MCCE) strengthens constitutional democracy through authentic civic education and professional learning. MCCE advances the…

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Detroit Justice Center

The Detroit Justice Center works alongside communities to create economic opportunities, transform the justice system, and promote equitable and just cities.

Crime & Legal

Detroiters Working for

The organization is known as the leader in the movement and is seen as the "go to" experts on environmental justice and sustainable redevelopment because of its knowledge and its network.

Health

Detroit Impact Inc

To provide assistance to low income and at risk youth in the community.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Congress of Communities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

8/8

Grantees still filing

7/8

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$151,000Community Improvement$70,000Human Services$52,500Youth Development$30,000Education$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Skillman FoundationMI20.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Skillman Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation 482 FORWARD funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DETROIT HEALS DETROIT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~12 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 831099822 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on DETROIT HEALS DETROIT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 12 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to 482 Forward through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

482 FORWARD

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?