· Public charity
Detroit Economic Growth Association
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $464k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARIA WARREN DETROIT LLC | $947,525 |
| WESTON HALL LLC | $290,606 |
| ULTREIA LLC | $210,396 |
| BUILD INSTITUTE | $188,816 |
| MILESTONE GROWTH CAPITAL INSTITUTE | $65,000 |
| HOUSE OF MORRISON'S SHOE REPAIR | $33,500 |
| THE TOWN COMPANIES LLC | $25,000 |
| KLASSIC MOBILE GARDENS LLC | $24,928 |
| LINWOOD FRESH MARKET | $22,640 |
| DISTRICT 4 MINI MARKET LLC | $21,898 |
| BRYANT PARK MARKET LLC | $19,000 |
| BOARDING HOUSE HOSPITALITY | $18,731 |
| MICHIGAN SKATELANDS INC | $15,000 |
| GIGI'S BIRDCAGE LLC | $15,000 |
| SHANTINIQUE MUSIC INC | $13,144 |
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 (FY20–22, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
75 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 67 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- DEDETROIT ECONOMIC GROWTH CORPORATION5× · 2017–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +50%
- TITHE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT INC2× · 2021–2022 · $56k · revenue +166%
EcoWorks2× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- COCOUNTY OF WAYNE MICHIGANone grant, 2021 · $12M
- SCSMART CITY LAB LLCone grant, 2018 · $200k
- GAGROW AMERICA FUND INCone grant, 2018 · $113k · revenue -33%
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 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…
The Detroit Justice Center works alongside communities to create economic opportunities, transform the justice system, and promote equitable and just cities.
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.
To strategically solve problems through collaboratives with City of Detroit Departments, nonprofit organizations and local grant makers in order to secure the maximum federal, state, and national foundation dollars for the city Detroit.
Endeavor Detroit is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Michigan and the wider Great Lakes region, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in the…
To promote equality and inclusion in society.
To inspire a community of active engagement, personal responsibility and hope by connecting people to opportunities and resources to transform the quality of life for all Detroiters.
To promote the city of detroit's turnaround and to support the mayor of the city of detroit's agenda
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…
Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.
Develop detroit, inc. is a nonprofit community development firm focused on providing affordable and mixed income housing, as well as strategic economic and commercial development that will help stabilize and transform disinvested…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Economic Growth Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Angel Land Child Care and Parent Institute. 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) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 22% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 990 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DETROIT ECONOMIC GROWTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BUILD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MILESTONE GROWTH CAPITAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT MOBILITY GROUP ↗
- Who funds GROW AMERICA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds METRO DETROIT BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIUNA Training of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Detroit Future City ↗
- Who funds WK Kellogg Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN BARBER SCHOOL ↗
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: Detroit Development Fund · Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inc · The Skillman Foundation · Wayne State University Research and Technology Park in the City of Detroit · Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Inc · Prosperus Detroit Micro Lending · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Hudson-Webber Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Invest Detroit 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 organization Detroit Economic Growth Association 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.