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Detroit Future City
DFCs Economic Inclusion program promotes equitable employment opportunities for historically excluded communities through outreach to employers and workforce agencies.
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 3 grants below total $65,383 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $220,483 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $155,100 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Allied Media Project | $30,000 |
| Arboretum | $20,383 |
| Bailey Park Nieghborhood Developmen | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +84% since the first grant, against +74% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ROUGE3× · 2019–2021 · $81k · revenue +161%
- TGTHE GREENING OF DETROIT3× · 2019–2021 · $72k · revenue +84%
- BPBailey Park Project4× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue ×12
Funded once
- TOTASTE OF DIASPORAone grant, 2022 · $18k
- JWJEFFERSON-CHALMERS WATER PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $14k
- DBDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +118%
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 parks coalition ("the coalition") is an alliance of community members and parks leaders working to support healthy, equitable, and vibrant parks in detroit. the coalition develops and facilitates city-wide parks programming,…
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 maintenance and beautification of vacant land inside of a community
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Rescue MI Nature Now, Inc. is a Michigan Nonprofit Organization committed to cultivating green zones within the communities and empowering neighborhoods through nature-centric educational programs. Through hands-on initiatives, we empower…
Motion picture exhibition
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.
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 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…
Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
Zero Waste Detroit (ZWD) is a coalition of over 20 community, environmental, and environmental justice organizations. Our goal is to move the City of Detroit to a solid waste management system that prioritizes recycling and materials…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 360 Detroit Inc and the most unlike its peers is Detroit Puppet Company. 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 12 years old; the field is 12. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 10% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 39 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
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 SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROUGE ↗
- Who funds THE GREENING OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds EcoWorks ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds Bailey Park Project ↗
- Who funds ARBORETUM DETROIT ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST DETROIT ENVIRONMENTAL VISION ↗
- Who funds KEEP GROWING DETROIT ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds GENESIS HARBOR OF OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTING EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds CANFIELD CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds Urban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc ↗
- Who funds 360 DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds SouthWest Detroit Business Association ↗
- Who funds POPPS PACKING ↗
- Who funds MACK AVENUE COMMUNITY CHURCH COMM DEVE CORP ↗
- Who funds Motor City Grounds Crew ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUPPET COMPANY ↗
- Who funds O Hair Park Community Association ↗
- Who funds GRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds DETROIT HIVES INC ↗
- Who funds WALDORF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF MICH ↗
- Who funds NW GOLDBERG CARES INC ↗
- Who funds CHANDLER PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
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: Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · The Gilbert Family Foundation · Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inc · Wayne State University Research and Technology Park in the City of Detroit · 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 organization Detroit Future City 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.