How much did DETROIT LIONS CHARITIES grant in FY2025?

Youth Development$2.4MHuman Services$2.4MHealth$1.4MCrime & Legal$962kEducation$934kRecreation & Sports$881kFood & Nutrition$416kHousing & Shelter$372kPhilanthropy$269kOther$2.0M

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

2019

homelesschildrenjusticecreate

2020

mentoringgovernmentinvestigationsjusticecreatesafetyfacilitating

2021

activity touchdowntown equipmentcovid relieftouchdown townequipment fieldhomelesseconomic

2022

touchdown towninspirechildrengovernmentinvestigationsliveshealth

2023

governmentinvestigationsmentoringlivesarthealthcare

2024

social justicejustice inspirebehavioralpalsportsdevelopmentalvolunteer

2025

householdspatientssocial justicejustice inspiregleanersprogrammingnearly

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

03FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $23k
$10k–50k11 grants · $217k
$50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M

$36,750

Median grant

States reached

$2.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM$200,000
ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS$182,130
PLAYWORKS$100,000
UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA$100,000
LOMAS BROWN JR FOUNDATION$81,130
THE YUNION$80,130
CITY YEAR INC$80,000
LIFE REMODELED$79,130
DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM$79,130
WAYNE COUNTY SHERIFFS RESERVE FOUNDATION$70,000
DETROIT CRIME COMMISSION$60,000
DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE$45,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN$36,750
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$24,970
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY POLICE DEPARTMENT$20,000

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 (FY18–25, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.5M · 32 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.5M

$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+2%

Still filing today

84%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $258k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

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

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
5× · 2021–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +195%
H
HFHS
5× · 2021–2025 · $878k · revenue +69%
DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC
7× · 2018–2025 · $759k · revenue +2%

Funded once

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AMERICAN RED CROSS
one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +9%
HF
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $216k · revenue -61%
DP
DETROIT PHOENIX CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $79k · revenue +572%

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 Economic Growth Corporation

Promote economic growth in the city of detroit

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Detroit Athletic Club

A distinguished private club preserving and celebrating humanity. the most sought after experience in detroit.

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Say Detroit

Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need

Housing & Shelter

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 Parent Network

A network of parents working to build and engage parents and others to ensure every child has a champion.

Human Services

Detroit Children's Fund

The detroit children's fund is a nonprofit organization that makes high-potential investments to expand successful schools, greatly improve lower performing schools, and discover and develop talented educators so that every child in…

Philanthropy

Detroit 90 90

The organization provides educational management services to public school academies in the State of Michigan

Education

Ser Metro Detroit

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

Employment

The Detroit Institute for Children

We empower children to overcome challenges.

Health

Connect Detroit

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

Community Improvement

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

Endeavor Detroit

Endeavor Detroit is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Michigan and the wider Great Lakes region, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in the…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant House Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Spielman Family Foundation. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/76

the rest of the field

10%

5,620/53,780

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

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

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)

58/59

Grantees still filing

38/59

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Youth Development$2,449,750Human Services$2,409,242Other$3,033,035Health$1,367,549Crime & Legal$962,166Education$933,630Recreation & Sports$880,630

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 MichiganMI48.3× affinity22 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 · Children's Hospital of Michigan · The Skillman Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · McGregor Fund · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Michigan College Access Network · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Ford Motor Company Fund · Ally Charitable 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 LIONS CHARITIES 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

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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: LOMAS BROWN JR FOUNDATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 383137179 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 LOMAS BROWN JR FOUNDATION INC, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 58% 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 Lions Charities?

Find your warmest path to Detroit Lions Charities 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 LIONS CHARITIES

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

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Detroit Lions Charities?

More from the funding graph

DETROIT LIONS CHARITIES

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

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Detroit Lions Charities?

More from the funding graph