· Public charity
Community Development Advocates of Detroit
A membership organization for community development and neighborhood improvement groups, enhancing the capacity and effectiveness of its members and detroit residents through advocacy, training, technical assistance, information sharing, education, and facilitating common action.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k12 grants · $312k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GENESIS HOPE | $135,991 |
| EASTSIDE COMMUNITY NETWORK | $118,362 |
| URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC | $117,325 |
| JOY-SOUTHFIELD CDC | $104,625 |
| GRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORP | $85,489 |
| BRIDGING COMMUNITIES | $83,400 |
| U-SNAP BAC | $78,725 |
| CONGRESS OF COMMUNITIES | $74,225 |
| OSBORN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE | $73,851 |
| CODY ROUGE CHRISTIAN CDC | $53,550 |
| SOUTHWEST DETROIT BUSINESS ASSOC | $50,000 |
| SINAI GRACE CDC | $50,000 |
| DETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOP CORP | $47,464 |
| CENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN CDC | $43,783 |
| STOREHOUSE OF HOPENOTHEND WOODWARD | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $374k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of Community Development Advocates of Detroit’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 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.
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North End CDC services the historic North End community of Detroit MI . The program specializes in providing workforce and youth development.
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Vanguard's mission in Detroit's Historic North End is to cultivate a vibrant and healthy community where people live, work, and play. Our core values are Economic Equity and Racial Equity.
To build a diverse coalition of community, environmental, faith and organized labor organizations united to strengthen metro detroit through meaningful community engagement in the creation of sustainable "win-win" economic development…
CDC focuses on stabilization, housing and job readiness in order to strengthen both the family and the clients we support. CDC provides housing support, fiscal literacy and job readiness help focusing on credit repair, stabilization and…
SECC collaborates with other University of Chicago businesses and organizations to foster a spirit of community and to enhance ongoing quality of life across neighborhoods it serves
Continue to provide programs that assist low income families with purchasing & rehabilitation of affordable housing.
To invest in people and property through the development, maintenance, and improvement of quality mixed-income housing and related supportive services for persons of very low and moderate income in the North Town area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grandmont Rosedale Development Corp and the most unlike its peers is Boulevard Harambee. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MICHIGAN NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GENESIS HARBOR OF OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds WARRENCONNER DEVELOPMENT COALITION ↗
- Who funds Urban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc ↗
- Who funds Joy-Southfield Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds GRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds BRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds U-SNAP-BAC INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CONGRESS OF COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Osborn Neighborhood Alliance ↗
- Who funds Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance ↗
- Who funds SouthWest Detroit Business Association ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds E WARREN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EQUITY ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Woodbridge Neighborhood Development Corp ↗
- Who funds MACK AVENUE COMMUNITY CHURCH COMM DEVE CORP ↗
- Who funds NORTH END WOODWARD COMMUNITY COALITION ↗
- Who funds The Villages Community Development Corp ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT CATHOLIC PASTORAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HOPE VILLAGE REVITALIZATION ↗
- Who funds LifeBUILDERS ↗
- Who funds BOULEVARD HARAMBEE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Enterprise Community Partners Inc · The Kresge Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Hudson-Webber Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund
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 organization Community Development Advocates of Detroit 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.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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