Michigan · Public charity
Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation
The mission of desc is to cultivate local workforce talent to align with the needs of the business community through partnerships with key workforce agencies, faith- and community- based organizations, education and training institutions, and philanthropic, economic development and government entities.
- $47M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $24M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $425,939
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,482,448
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 25
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $22M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $22M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $17M | 5% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $19M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $18M | 4% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $14M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Payne - Pulliam School of Trade & Commerce | $16,789,246 | 6 | 92% |
| Serco | $14,192,274 | 6 | n/a |
| Downriver Community Conference | $13,268,596 | 6 | n/a |
| Development Centers Inc | $10,409,570 | 6 | 10% |
| Connect Detroit | $8,877,277 | 6 | 28% |
| Gesher Human Services | $8,446,729 | 3 | 18% |
| Ross Innovative Employment Solutions Corporation | $5,083,281 | 2 | n/a |
| Equus Workforce Services | $4,806,851 | 2 | n/a |
| Southwest Economic Solutions Inc | $4,743,465 | 6 | 28% |
| Matrix Human Services | $4,025,448 | 6 | 3% |
Show all 36 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · McGregor Fund · Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Comerica Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation
- How much does Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation give?
- Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation reported 27 itemized grants totaling $23,811,119, out of $46,656,657 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (76%), Human Services (9%), Community Improvement (8%).
- Who are Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Payne - Pulliam School of Trade & Commerce ($17M), Serco ($14M), Downriver Community Conference ($13M).
- Does Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, DTE Energy Foundation.
- Where is Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation based?
- Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation is based in MI.
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