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· 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$136k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.3MHousing & Shelter$342kHealth$50kEmployment$13k
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $312k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SINAI GRACE CDC$50,000
SOUTHWEST DETROIT BUSINESS ASSOC$50,000
DETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOP CORP$47,464
CENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN CDC$43,783
EAST WARREN COMMUNITY CO$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 19%LIFE BUILDERS: $15k → 21%CODY ROUGE CHRISTIAN CDC: $54k → 21%JOY-SOUTHFIELD CDC: $105k → 21%BRIDGING COMMUNITIES: $83k → 21%URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC: $117k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 21% of Community Development Advocates of Detroit’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Community Development Advocates of Detroitlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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
2
New Hope Community Development

A neighborhood based housing and development Corporation with the purpose of revializing the detroit area, by providubg affordable housing to persons of low and moderate incomes and providing youth development and networking.

Housing & Shelter
3
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
4
New Development Corporation

Promote home ownership & affordable housing to alleviate neighborhood blight in targeted low and moderate income ares. work with low-income individuals to help them obtain and retain home ownership, facilitate homeowner repair grants and…

Housing & Shelter
5
Detroit Land Bank Community Development Corporation

The detroit land bank community development corporation's mission is to serve the people of the city of detroit, michigan through the advancement of economic welfare, the promotion of community development, and the provision of affordable…

Community Improvement
6
Englewood Community Development Corp

Englewood Community Development Corporation strives to nurture and embody love of neighbor in the areas of affordable housing, economic development, and comprehensive community development on the Near Eastside of Indianapolis.

Housing & Shelter
7
Vanguard Community Development Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
8
Doing Development Differently in Metro Detroit (D4) Coalition Inc

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…

Community Improvement
9
Collaborative Development Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
10
South East Chicago Commission

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

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11
Martindale Brightwood Community Development Center

Continue to provide programs that assist low income families with purchasing & rehabilitation of affordable housing.

Housing & Shelter
12
Near North Development Corporation

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.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grandmont Rosedale Development Corp; 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.
05the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
4/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GENESIS HARBOR OF OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING EXCELLENCE: $135,991 · Community ImprovementGENESIS HARBOR OF OPPORTUNITIES PROMOT…WARRENCONNER DEVELOPMENT COALITION: $118,362 · Community ImprovementWARRENCONNER DEVELOPMENT COALITIONCONGRESS OF COMMUNITIES: $74,225 · Community ImprovementCONGRESS OF COMMUNITIESOsborn Neighborhood Alliance: $73,851 · Community ImprovementOsborn Neighborhood AllianceMACK AVENUE COMMUNITY CHURCH COMM DEVE CORP: $25,000 · Community ImprovementThe Villages Community Development Corp: $25,000 · Community ImprovementE WARREN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementWoodbridge Neighborhood Development Corp: $25,000 · Community ImprovementEQUITY ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $25,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH END WOODWARD COMMUNITY COALITION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementHOPE VILLAGE REVITALIZATION: $20,800 · Community ImprovementMICHIGAN NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: $364,625 · OtherMICHIGAN NONPROFIT ASSOCIATIONSINAI GRACE CDC: $50,000 · OtherSINAI GRACE CDCSouthWest Detroit Business Association: $50,000 · OtherSouthWest Detroit Business Associatio…DETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOP CORP: $47,464 · OtherDETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOP CORPCENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $43,783 · OtherCENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY D…+1 more: $12,900 · OtherUrban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc: $117,325 · Human ServicesUrban Neighborhood Initi…Joy-Southfield Community Development Corporation: $104,625 · Human ServicesJoy-Southfield Community…BRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC: $83,400 · Human ServicesBRIDGING COMMUNITIES INCCody Rouge Community Action Alliance: $53,550 · Human ServicesCody Rouge Community Act…LifeBUILDERS: $15,000 · Human ServicesGRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $85,489 · Housing & ShelterGRANDMONT …U-SNAP-BAC INCORPORATED: $78,725 · Housing & ShelterU-SNAP-BAC…THE DETROIT CATHOLIC PASTORAL ALLIANCE: $22,181 · Religion
Community Improvement$573,229Other$568,772Human Services$373,900Housing & Shelter$164,214Religion$22,181

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMICHIGAN NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION: $364,625 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetGENESIS HARBOR OF OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING EXCELLENCE: $135,991 over 1y, 15% of budgetWARRENCONNER DEVELOPMENT COALITION: $118,362 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUrban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc: $117,325 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetJoy-Southfield Community Development Corporation: $104,625 over 1y, 40% of budgetGRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $85,489 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC: $83,400 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetU-SNAP-BAC INCORPORATED: $78,725 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCONGRESS OF COMMUNITIES: $74,225 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetOsborn Neighborhood Alliance: $73,851 over 1y, 20% of budgetCody Rouge Community Action Alliance: $53,550 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSouthWest Detroit Business Association: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $43,783 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMACK AVENUE COMMUNITY CHURCH COMM DEVE CORP: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe Villages Community Development Corp: $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetE WARREN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWoodbridge Neighborhood Development Corp: $25,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetEQUITY ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNORTH END WOODWARD COMMUNITY COALITION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE DETROIT CATHOLIC PASTORAL ALLIANCE: $22,181 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHOPE VILLAGE REVITALIZATION: $20,800 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLifeBUILDERS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOULEVARD HARAMBEE: $12,900 over 1y, 4.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Enterprise Community …The Kresge FoundationUnited Way for Southe…Community Foundation …Wayne-Metropolitan Co…The Ford FoundationThe Skillman Foundati…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…WK Kellogg FoundationLocal Initiatives Sup…Hudson-Webber Foundat…Michigan Health Endow…
Enterprise Community Partners IncMD46.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Development Advocates of Detroit funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Development Advocates of Detroit. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Community Development Advocates of Detroit?

    Find your warmest path to Community Development Advocates of Detroit 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.

    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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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