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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.

$136k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$230kYouth Development$222kEducation$115kHealth$101kArts & Culture$92kPhilanthropy$59kCrime & Legal$52kRecreation & Sports$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Salvation Army$5,000
Racquet up Detroit$5,000
St Vincent and Sarah Fisher Center$5,000
The Furniture Bank of Southeastern$5,000
Kingdom Kids Christian Academy$5,000
Great Lakes Burn Camp$5,000
Free Bikes 4 Kidz-Detroit$5,000
HAVEN INC$5,000
BEDS 4 KIDS$5,000
Christ Child House of Detroit$5,000
Accent Pontiac$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Brilliant Detroit$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KIDS ON THE GO: $3k → 10%KIDS ON THE GO: $3k → 10%PLAY PLACE FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN: $5k → 10%PLAY PLACE FOR AUTISTIC CHILDREN: $5k → 10%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $2k → 21%St Vincent and Sarah Fisher Center: $5k → 21%St Vincent and Sarah Fisher Center: $5k → 21%OAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $2k → 8%SECOND MILE CENTER OF DETROIT: $2k → 21%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 8%Camp Casey: $1k → 8%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS: $380 → 8%COVENANT HOUSE OF MICHIGAN: $3k → 21%Christ Child House of Detroit: $5k → 21%CHRIST CHILD HOUSE OF DETROIT: $5k → 21%Christ Child House of Detroit: $5k → 21%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY: $4k → 21%Judson Center: $5k → 8%Judson Center: $3k → 8%Judson Center: $2k → 8%Christ Child House of Detroit: $3k → 21%JUDSON CENTER: $4k → 8%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY: $3k → 21%JUDSON CENTER: $2k → 8%CHRIST CHILD HOUSE OF DETROIT: $3k → 21%Christ Child House of Detroit: $3k → 21%FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $2k → 21%FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $2k → 21%FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $2k → 21%Ennis Center For Children: $5k → 21%The Family Center of Grosse Pointe: $2k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$805k · 60 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
53

Total granted

$805k
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

72%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HI
    HAVEN INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +42%
  • RU
    RACQUET UP DETROIT
    7× · 2018–2025 · $28k · revenue +19%
  • DI
    DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN
    6× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TK
    The Konnection Club
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF GROSSE POINTE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • SB
    Seedlings Braille Books for Childre
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Detroit Parent Network

To be a champion for parents of children in the community.

Human Services
2
The Youth Connection Inc

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.

Youth Development
3
Friends of the Children - Detroit

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…

Crime & Legal
4
Local Circles

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…

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5
About Face Detroit
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6
Greater Detroit Community Outreach Center inc

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…

Human Services
7
Community Education Commission

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.

Education
8
The Detroit Creativity Project

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.

Unclassified
9
Boys and Girls Club of Detroit Lakes

To enable all young people, especially those who need it most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring,responsible citizens.

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10
Say Detroit

Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.

Housing & Shelter
11
Detroit Phoenix Center

To provide critical resources, support and a safe nurturing environment for youth transitioning out of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
12
Detroit Life Is Valuable Everyday

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alternatives for Girls; 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.
04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 125 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/74
Grantees still filing
41/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $39,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $35,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $30,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVISTA MARIA: $25,000 · OtherVISION HOPE: $23,000 · OtherCENTER FOR SUCCESS NETWORK: $18,500 · Other+73 more: $339,594 · Other+73 moreTHE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT: $23,150 · Human ServicesTHE CHRIST …JUDSON CENTER INC: $14,500 · Human ServicesJUDSON CENT…PLAY PLACE AUTISM & SPECIAL NEEDS CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesPLAY PLACE …ST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT …CHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS C…KIDS ON THE GO: $5,700 · Human ServicesKIDS ON THE…FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC: $5,370 · Human ServicesFULL CIRCLE…ENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $4,000 · Human Services+8 more: $12,480 · Human Services+8 moreRACQUET UP DETROIT: $27,500 · Recreation & SportsRACQUET U…CLARK PARK COALITION: $23,657 · Recreation & SportsCLARK PAR…CAMP CAVELL CONSERVANCY: $13,335 · Recreation & SportsCAMP CAVE…GREAT LAKES BURN CAMP INC: $12,800 · Recreation & SportsGREAT LAK…NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB: $4,100 · Recreation & SportsBOUND TOGETHER: $26,910 · EducationBOUND TOG…MERCY EDUCATION PROJECT: $15,800 · EducationMERCY EDU…ACCENT PONTIAC INC: $14,000 · EducationACCENT PO…LITERACY FOR KIDS INC: $14,000 · EducationLITERACY …KINGDOM KIDS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $5,000 · EducationKINGDOM K…+3 more: $5,500 · Education+3 moreDETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN: $27,000 · HealthTHE LENNON CENTER: $15,400 · HealthDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $12,700 · HealthCNS HEALTHCARE: $10,000 · HealthON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN: $3,000 · HealthCOMMON GROUND: $2,940 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthLiving Arts: $25,000 · Arts & CultureDetroit Historical Society: $20,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT OPERA: $5,500 · Arts & CultureMOSAIC YOUTH THEATRE OF DETROIT: $4,000 · Arts & CultureART CREATES US INC: $3,200 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SUZUKI ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureHAVEN INC: $46,000 · Crime & LegalWELLSPRING: $15,200 · Crime & Legal
Other$510,994Human Services$96,200Recreation & Sports$81,392Education$81,210Health$73,040Arts & Culture$62,200Crime & Legal$61,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAVEN INC: $46,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetRACQUET UP DETROIT: $27,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDETROIT INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN: $27,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOUND TOGETHER: $26,910 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetLiving Arts: $25,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetVISTA MARIA: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLARK PARK COALITION: $23,657 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF DETROIT: $23,150 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDetroit Historical Society: $20,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR SUCCESS NETWORK: $18,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMERCY EDUCATION PROJECT: $15,800 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LENNON CENTER: $15,400 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetWELLSPRING: $15,200 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJUDSON CENTER INC: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetACCENT PONTIAC INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ARC GROSSE POINTE HARPER WOODS: $14,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetLITERACY FOR KIDS INC: $14,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetFREE BIKES 4 KIDZ - DETROIT: $13,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCAMP CAVELL CONSERVANCY: $13,335 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGREAT LAKES BURN CAMP INC: $12,800 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $12,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSWEET DREAMZZZ INC: $10,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetHope Ignites Detroit: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCNS HEALTHCARE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST VINCENT & SARAH FISHER CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST INTEGRATED HEALTH: $8,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOTS: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDeveloping Despite Distance Inc: $6,300 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCHILDRENS CENTER OF WAYNE COUNTY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS ON THE GO: $5,700 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDETROIT OPERA: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC: $5,370 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGROSSE POINTE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE GREENING OF DETROIT: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKINGDOM KIDS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetENNIS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Detroit Thinkers: $4,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CLUB: $4,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetART CREATES US INC: $3,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetON MY OWN OF MICHIGAN: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVISION HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNORTH STAR REACH: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOAKLAND FAMILY SERVICES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …DTE Energy FoundationUnited Way for Southe…Young Woman's Home As…Children's Hospital o…The Skillman Foundati…Ethel and James Flinn…Canton Community Foun…The Kresge FoundationMichigan Health Endow…Ford PhilanthropyThe Carls Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI77.3× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Detroit Industrial School funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Detroit Industrial School. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Detroit Industrial School?

    Find your warmest path to Detroit Industrial School through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 125 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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