· Public charity
Detroit Athletic Club Foundation
To raise and expend funds for the beautification, support of programs for public safety, and improvement of detroit, michigan and southeastern michigan.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $409,375 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $587,428 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $178,053 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| THE WEST POINT MEN'S BOXING ENDOWMENT | $50,075 |
| WELCHER FUND FOR BOXING EXCELLENCE ENDOWMENT | $50,075 |
| US NAVAL ACADEMY ENDOWMENT | $50,075 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $9,150 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 49% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AFAIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $324k · revenue +137%
ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY7× · 2017–2024 · $321k · revenue +131%- DPDETROIT PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $288k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- RURACQUET UP DETROITone grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +19%
- SVSAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Raise funds to support the charitable mission of detroit police athletic league, inc., an organization described in section 501(c) of the code, whose mission is to build character in at-risk, low-income, disadvantaged detroit area youth…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
To raise and expend funds for the beautification, support of programs for public safety, and improvement of detroit, michigan and southeastern michigan. to raise and expend funds for the award of scholarships and the promotion of academic…
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
To provide death benefits to members.
To conduct interscholastic athletic tournaments throughout the state, consistent with educational values of high school curriculums, to provide assistance in the training of coaches, athletic directors and officials, as well as the…
The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…
Our mission is to advance detroit by driving engagement, development and programs that benefit businesses, residents and visitors throughout the downtown's urban core. we strengthen and support downtown detroit through strategic…
Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Public Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Northeast Integrated Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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.
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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Detroit Athletic Club Foundation 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.