How much did DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION grant in FY2024?

Human Services$26MEmployment$14MEducation$14MHealth$9.5MCommunity Improvement$7.9MYouth Development$1.9MAnimals$1.6MEnvironment$316kCrime & Legal$190kOther$31M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

payments trainingjob

2021

payments trainingjob

2022

payments trainingjob

2023

youtheducationlivesaccessactionmetropolitanachieve

2024

youtheducationbuildaccesseducationalensureawareness

2025

subcontractor paymentspayments training

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k2 grants · $81k
$50k–250k5 grants · $692k
$250k+17 grants · $24M

$388,603

Median grant

States reached

$24M

Total assets

Largest grants

SERCO INC$3,241,533
PAYNE-PULLIAM SCHOOL OF RADE & COMMERCE$2,915,926
ROSS INNOVATIVE EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION$2,608,063
ARBOR E&T LLC DBA EQUUS WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS$2,463,706
ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SERVICES (ACCESS)$2,376,119
DEVELOPMENT CENTERS$1,734,072
DOWNRIVER COMMUNITY CONFERENCE$1,506,619
CONNECT DETROIT$1,465,867
MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES$1,260,475
SER METRO DETROIT$1,096,349
SOUTHWEST ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS$622,535
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT$586,242
EDUCATIONAL DATA SYSTEMS INC$388,603
JACKETS FOR JOBS$372,265
THE YUNION$306,082

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $25.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — the area typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$101M · 26 repeat orgs$5.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$101M

$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+38%

Still filing today

92%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEmploymentHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentEducationOther

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

AC
ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SERVICES (ACCESS)
5× · 2020–2024 · $16M · revenue +69%
PS
PAYNE-PULLIAM SCHOOL OF RADE & COMMERCE
5× · 2020–2024 · $14M · revenue +80% · 92% of their budget
RW
RESCARE WORKFORCE SERVICES
3× · 2020–2022 · $8.4M · revenue +9%

Funded once

NS
NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES ORGANIZATION
one grant, 2022 · $59k · revenue +8%
DP
DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMUNITY DISTRICT
one grant, 2020 · $46k
DA
DETROIT AREA AGENCY ON AGINGgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $19k · revenue +38%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation

Detroit employment solutions corporation (desc) is part of the michigan works! system, which is a network of 16 workforce agencies located throughout the state. this system helps residents find new jobs, retain employment, and advance…

Employment

Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promote economic growth in the city of detroit

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Southwest Solutions Inc

The mission of southwest solutions d/b/a miside community impact network (miside) is to enhance the quality of life, success and self-sufficiency of individuals and families in detroit.

—

Detroit Community Solutions Inc

Our mission is to provide sustainable solutions to community challenges. We exist to fill gaps in commmunity developement by implementing and taking to scale programs and services that provide clean, safe, and healthy environments and…

Community Improvement

Downtown Detroit Partnership Inc

To advance detroit by driving engagement, development and programs that benefit businesses, residents and visitors throughout the downtowns's urban core.

Community Improvement

Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about enviromental issues.

Environment

Say Detroit

Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need

Housing & Shelter

Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

—

Ser Metro Detroit

Advancing people, growing businesses and strengthening communities through education, employment, economic and community development.

Employment

Detroiters Working for

The organization is known as the leader in the movement and is seen as the "go to" experts on environmental justice and sustainable redevelopment because of its knowledge and its network.

Health

Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness

To serve as an inclusive statewide voice to improve systems and support communities to prevent and end homelessness in a way that leaves no one behind.

Human Services

Detroit Future City

DFCs Economic Inclusion program promotes equitable employment opportunities for historically excluded communities through outreach to employers and workforce agencies. In 2024, DFC cosponsored a public symposium attended by close to 100…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan State Afl-Cio Workforce and the most unlike its peers is Local Initiatives Support Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/33

the rest of the field

15%

2,491/16,575

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.

05the grantee network

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

22/27

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$33,191,614Human Services$25,932,241Employment$14,026,625Education$13,746,765Health$9,462,129Community Improvement$7,949,464Youth Development$1,892,196

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way for Southeastern MichiganMI46.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast · Dte Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Ford Motor Company Fund · Wayne-Metropolitan Community · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Children's Hospital of Michigan · Comerica Charitable Foundation · McGregor Fund · The Ralph C Wilson Jr 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 organisation DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PAYNE-PULLIAM SCHOOL OF RADE & COMMERCE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +80% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 382030679 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PAYNE-PULLIAM SCHOOL OF RADE & COMMERCE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 92% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation?

Find your warmest path to Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation?

More from the funding graph

DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation?

More from the funding graph