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Bizdom

To operate exclusively for charitable and educational purposes by establishing, maintaining and operating academies devoted to teaching business and entrepreneurial skills to students with the intent of training, mentoring and supporting aspiring entrepreneurs in the creation, development, and ongoing management of successful business…

$250k
Granted FY2019
2
Grants FY2019
2
Organizations funded FY2019
50%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$200,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 3
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Total assets, FY2019
$349k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 50% of the organizations Bizdom funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20192$250k50%
FY20173$288kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Community Improvement$538k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Build Institute$200,000114%
Detroit Development Fund$150,00023%
Downtown Detroit Partnership Inc$137,50012%
Southwest Solutions Inc$50,00011%

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Bizdom?

Find your warmest path to Bizdom through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Bizdom

How much does Bizdom give?
Bizdom reported 2 grants totaling $250,000 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Bizdom fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Community Improvement (100%).
Who are Bizdom's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Build Institute ($200k), Detroit Development Fund ($150k), Downtown Detroit Partnership Inc ($138k).
Does Bizdom fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bizdom?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan.
Where is Bizdom based?
Bizdom is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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