· Private foundation
Detroit Industrial School
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kingdom Kids Christian Academy | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Christ Child House of Detroit | $5,000 |
| St Vincent and Sarah Fisher Center | $5,000 |
| The Furniture Bank of Southeastern | $5,000 |
| Salvation Army | $5,000 |
| BEDS 4 KIDS | $5,000 |
| Racquet up Detroit | $5,000 |
| HAVEN INC | $5,000 |
| Accent Pontiac | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Free Bikes 4 Kidz-Detroit | $5,000 |
| Brilliant Detroit | $5,000 |
| Great Lakes Burn Camp | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 61% 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 +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 36 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- HIHAVEN INC8× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +42%
- RURACQUET UP DETROIT7× · 2018–2025 · $28k · revenue +19%
- DIDETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN6× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- TKThe Konnection Clubone grant, 2023 · $10k
- RCROTARY CLUB OF GROSSE POINTEone grant, 2018 · $10k
- SBSeedlings Braille Books for Childreone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
To be a champion for parents of children in the community.
The Youth Connection is committed to connecting all youth and their families in metro Detroit to a brighter future by providing quality programs and supportive services.
Friends of the children - detroit has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
Local circles offers young detroiters an employment opportunity in youth- led research. by employing youth to do research, local circles intervenes on two simultaneous social issues facing young detroiters today: youth unemployment and…
Greater Detroit Community Outreach Center is a community based nonprofit organization designed to help prevent teen parenthood among school age youth. The center has a staff of outreach representatives who go into the homes with children…
CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.
The detroit creativity project ("dcp") seeks to empower and inspire detroit's young people through improvisation, an art form that helps people build confidence and develop a creative and collaborative approach to their lives.
To enable all young people, especially those who need it most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring,responsible citizens.
Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.
To provide critical resources, support and a safe nurturing environment for youth transitioning out of homelessness and poverty.
Dlive is a health-centered violence intervention and prevention organization that works to advance the health outcomes and well-being of young adults who have sustained injury from community violence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alternatives for Girls and the most unlike its peers is James H Cole Legacy Foundation. 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 28 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 125 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 HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds RACQUET UP DETROIT ↗
- Who funds DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BOUND TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds Living Arts ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds CLARK PARK COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Detroit Historical Society ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SUCCESS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MERCY EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE LENNON CENTER ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds JUDSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACCENT PONTIAC INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC GROSSE POINTE HARPER WOODS ↗
- Who funds LITERACY FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT ↗
- Who funds CAMP CAVELL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES BURN CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds SWEET DREAMZZZ INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Ignites Detroit ↗
- Who funds CNS HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds PLAY PLACE AUTISM & SPECIAL NEEDS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Young Woman's Home Association of Detroit Michigan · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Ethel and James Flinn Foundation · Canton Community Foundation Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Ford Philanthropy · The Carls 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 Industrial School 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.
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