· Public charity
Detroit Public Schools Foundation
DPSFs mission is to create and enhance educational opportunities for over 50,000 Detroit Public Schools Community Districts students, families and educators.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $180k
- $250k+2 grants · $27M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $26,196,932 |
| BREITHAUPT CAREER TECHNICAL CENTER | $900,000 |
| AMELIA EARHART MIDDLE SCHOOL | $180,000 |
| CAREER PATHWAYS | $22,500 |
| HENRY FORD HIGH SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| PALMER PARK PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SPAIN ELEMENTARY MIDDLE SCHOOLS | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 8 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27M 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
- DPDETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMUNITY DISTRICT8× · 2017–2024 · $32M
DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $167k · revenue ×19
THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS2× · 2020–2023 · $15k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- RNRebel Nell L3Cone grant, 2018 · $25k
- BCBUILDING COMMUNITY VALUEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +344% · 29% of their budget
- TJTHE JEROME BETTIS BUS STOPS HERE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +337%
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 Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
To create life-enriching experiences that build meaningful relations, foster personal and professional growth, and celebrate culture in the heart of detroit.
Promoting and exhibiting work of southeastern michigan artists.
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.
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.
To nuture a life-long love of music through imaginative and inspiring experiences for the listeners of today and tomorrow.
Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.
Umoja Debate League is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that uses debate as our vehicle to teach Detroit youth ages 11-18 transferable life skills such as critical thinking confidence conflict resolution increased literacy and…
The greening of detroit's mission is the sustainable growth of a healthy urban community through trees, green spaces, healthy living, education, training and job opportunities.
Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors
To be a champion for parents of children in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Public Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Jive Turkey Detroit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 23 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 DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUILDING COMMUNITY VALUE ↗
- Who funds THE JEROME BETTIS BUS STOPS HERE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds Living Arts ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS LEAGUE OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHARITABLE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF TOMORROW MENTOR AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEWABIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Jive Turkey Detroit ↗
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 · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Public Schools Foundation 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.