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Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inc

Detroit regional chamber foundation, inc.

$697k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Community Improvement$525kArts & Culture$405kYouth Development$312kHuman Services$270kFood & Nutrition$150kEducation$132kRecreation & Sports$120kHousing & Shelter$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $250,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $697,148 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $447,148 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.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SERVICES TO ENHANCE POTENTIAL$30,000
GIVING AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION INC$30,000
LIVE COAL$30,000
BLACK TECH SATURDAYS$25,000
ABC MOBILE VISION INC$15,000
BEAVERLAND FARMS LLC$15,000
DETROIT BALLOON STORE$15,000
MAHK-ERE LLC DBA MOCKERY ZERO PROOF$15,000
HAPPY BOUNCE LLC$15,000
THE COLORING MUSEUM LLC$15,000
NEXT CHAPTER BOOKS LLC$15,000
GUERILLA FOOD LLC DBA PINK FLAMINGO TO GO$15,000
JUST FOR KIDS II CHILD CARE LLC$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–25, $237k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DETROIT PHOENIX CENTER: $30k → 21%DETROIT PHOENIX CENTER: $27k → 21%DREAM OF DETROIT: $30k → 21%DETROIT PARENT NETWORK: $30k → 21%SERVICES TO ENHANCE POTENTIAL: $30k → 21%BRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC: $30k → 21%DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $30k → 21%DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOUTH: $30k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$177k · 4 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +572% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
88

Total granted

$177k
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+572%
0%

Still filing today

50%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • 360 DETROIT INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +71%
  • DP
    DETROIT PHOENIX CENTER
    2× · 2019–2024 · $57k · revenue +572%
  • HB
    HAPPY BOUNCE LLC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k

Funded once

  • BC
    BRIDGING COMMUNITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +187%
  • EG
    EDEN GARDENS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +5%
  • AL
    AUSOME LEARNING CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -70% · 46% of their budget

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.

1
About Face Detroit
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2
Detroit Cultivator Community Land Trust

The maintenance and beautification of vacant land inside of a community

Food & Nutrition
3
New Hope Community Development

A neighborhood based housing and development Corporation with the purpose of revializing the detroit area, by providubg affordable housing to persons of low and moderate incomes and providing youth development and networking.

Housing & Shelter
4
Mack Alive

The nbsp;mission nbsp;of nbsp;mack nbsp;alive nbsp;is nbsp;to nbsp;enhance nbsp;the nbsp;growth nbsp;and nbsp;development nbsp;on nbsp;the nbsp;eastside nbsp;of nbsp;detroit

Health
5
Summer in the City

Summer in the City strives to improve and expand community service in Metro Detroit. By bringing a diverse group of young people together to invest their energy in Detroit, Summer in the City programs address the immediate needs of city…

Philanthropy
6
Cinema Detroit

Motion picture exhibition

Arts & Culture
7
Workin Rootz

Our mission is to revitalize and re-engage the community by reconnecting to the Earth through land stewardship, food sovereignty, sustainability, and herbalism.

Environment
8
Detroit Donates Inc
Housing & Shelter
9
Cadillac Urban Gardens

To create equitable access to culturally relevant foods by fostering multigenertional knowledge and leadership

Food & Nutrition
10
Detroit Change Initiative

Detroit Change Initiative. I founded the Detroit Change Initiative a non-profit that educates people about resources available in their community connects them to opportunities to influence the changes they want to see and creates a…

Community Improvement
11
Detroit Cdfi Coalition

Detroit CDFI Coalition is organized for the purpose of furthering community economic development financing in the City of Detroit, Michigan, promoting and assisting growth and development of community development opportunities through the…

Community Improvement
12
Detroit African Youth Development Organization

Enhance the living standard for African migrant communities in the USA, and empower segments of poor populations in Africa through education sustainable economic and social development programs and projects and creation of opportunities…

Youth Development

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMental Illness Residential …Community Support Infrastru…Detroit Youth & Community D…Community Health CentersDetroit Economic DevelopmentHousing & Homelessness Serv…Detroit Economic DevelopmentMuslim Community & Internat…Youth & Family Support Serv…
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 11 years old; the field is 12. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%11%<5yr15%27%5–10yr17%35%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr12%7%35–55yr13%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%11%<5yr15%27%5–10yr17%35%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr12%7%35–55yr13%4%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 20% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1.0%1/103
the rest of the field
20%
1,779/9,123

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.

04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 103 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/50
Grantees still filing
22/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+64 more — $1,243,000 · Other+64 more360 DETROIT INC — $60,000 · Community Improvement360 DETROIT INCEDEN GARDENS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · Community ImprovementEDEN GARDENS COMM…DETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $30,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT HISPANIC …Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc — $30,000 · Community ImprovementWayne-Metropolita…MEXICANTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $30,000 · Community ImprovementMEXICANTOWN COMMU…Northend Christian Community Development Corporation — $30,000 · Community ImprovementNorthend Christia…1 Michigan for the Global Majority — $30,000 · Community Improvement1 Michigan for th…Motor City Grounds Crew — $30,000 · Community ImprovementMotor City Ground…CONGRESS OF COMMUNITIES — $30,000 · Community ImprovementCONGRESS OF COMMU…WOMEN OF BANGLATOWN — $30,000 · Community ImprovementWOMEN OF BANGLATO…THE TUXEDO PROJECT — $25,000 · Community ImprovementTHE TUXEDO PROJEC…Osborn Neighborhood Alliance — $14,500 · Community ImprovementATLANTIC IMPACT — $30,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTIC IM…MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMOTOWN HIST…Live Coal — $30,000 · Arts & CultureLive CoalDETROIT THEATER ORGAN SOCIETY — $30,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT THE…DETROIT SOUND CONSERVANCY — $30,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SOU…KNOW ALLEGIANCE NATION — $30,000 · Arts & CultureKNOW ALLEGI…DETROIT PUPPET COMPANY — $30,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUP…WE ARE THE CULTURE CREATORS NONPROFIT — $30,000 · Arts & CultureWE ARE THE …DETROIT PHOENIX CENTER — $56,500 · Human ServicesDETROIT PHO…BRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGING CO…Dream of Detroit — $30,000 · Human ServicesDream of De…Detroit Parent Network — $30,000 · Human ServicesDetroit Par…DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $30,000 · Human ServicesDETROIT POL…SERVICES TO ENHANCE POTENTIAL — $30,000 · Human ServicesSERVICES TO…DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOUTH — $30,000 · Human ServicesDETERMINED …TEACHERS SUPPORTING TEACHERS EVERYWHERE INC — $30,000 · EducationCODE313 — $30,000 · Education20 Book Incorporated — $27,000 · EducationJourni Incorporated — $25,500 · EducationBLACK TECH SATURDAYS ALEXA TURNAGE — $25,000 · EducationDETROIT HORSE POWER — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentDETROIT UNITED LACROSSE ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRILLIANT DETROIT — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentAvalon Village Inc — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLARK PARK COALITION — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsPEOPLE FOR PALMER PARK — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsBailey Park Project — $30,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,243,000Community Improvement$369,500Arts & Culture$240,000Human Services$236,500Education$137,500Youth Development$120,000Recreation & Sports$90,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget360 DETROIT INC — $60,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetDETROIT PHOENIX CENTER — $56,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAUSOME LEARNING CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetDream of Detroit — $30,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCLARK PARK COALITION — $30,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetDetroit Parent Network — $30,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetATLANTIC IMPACT — $30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLive Coal — $30,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT HORSE POWER — $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGRACE GUILD OF SINAI GRACE HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $30,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetMEXICANTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $30,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTEACHERS SUPPORTING TEACHERS EVERYWHERE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetDETROIT THEATER ORGAN SOCIETY — $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCHANDLER PARK CONSERVANCY — $30,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE YUNION — $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLIFE REMODELED — $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDETROIT SOUND CONSERVANCY — $30,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetPEOPLE FOR PALMER PARK — $30,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetDETROIT UNITED LACROSSE ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetKNOW ALLEGIANCE NATION — $30,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetSERVICES TO ENHANCE POTENTIAL — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCODE313 — $30,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetRENAISSANCE OF HOPE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNorthend Christian Community Development Corporation — $30,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budget1 Michigan for the Global Majority — $30,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDETROIT PUPPET COMPANY — $30,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBailey Park Project — $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetAvalon Village Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBLACK LEGACY ADVANCEMENT COALITION — $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetDETROIT HIVES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetFamily Assistance for Renaissance Men — $30,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetCONGRESS OF COMMUNITIES — $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWOMEN OF BANGLATOWN — $30,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMETRO SOLUTIONS INC — $28,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget20 Book Incorporated — $27,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetJourni Incorporated — $25,500 over 1y, 7.8% of budget
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.

The Skillman Foundati…Community Foundation …United Way for Southe…The Kresge FoundationWayne State Universit…Dte Energy FoundationWayne-Metropolitan Co…Detroit Economic Grow…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Ford PhilanthropyMcGregor FundHudson-Webber Foundat…
The Skillman FoundationMI61.5× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Skillman Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · Wayne State University Research and Technology Park in the City of Detroit · Dte Energy Foundation · Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc · Detroit Economic Growth Association · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · McGregor Fund · Hudson-Webber 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 Regional Chamber Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your 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
    8report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 103 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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