· Public charity
Detroit Economic Growth Association
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city 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.
Detroit blight busters, inc's mission is to stabilize, revitalize and rebuild detroit neighborhoods by demolishing, renovating and boarding up blighted homes for community use, building community partnerships and sponsoring events that…
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…
How this is measured
77 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. 77 of the 990 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Detroit Economic Growth Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Detroit Economic Growth Association. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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