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Devos Urban Leadership Initiative

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$270k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
53%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$79,100
Organizations funded a year
10 to 17
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$102k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 53% of the organizations Devos Urban Leadership Initiative funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Youth DevelopmentReligionHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$270k39%
FY202317$340k53%
FY202210$211k10%
FY202110$239k40%
FY202016$354kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$941kEducation$230kYouth Development$101kCommunity Improvement$95kScience & Tech$15kPublic Benefit$8kArts & Culture$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
AZ
TN
SC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees
All grantees of Devos Urban Leadership Initiative by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Real Resources Inc$381,00054%
Hispanic Ministry Center$344,10058%
20 20 Vision For Schools Inc$195,00056%
Grand Rapids Initiative for Leaders$59,500413%
Legacy Disciple$52,50043%
Global Service Office$48,50040%
Urban Youth Collaborative$35,00041%
Hope College$25,00010%
Christian Community Development Association$25,00014%
The Center for Faithwalk Leadership$25,00017%
Youth Leadership Institute$15,00020%
Titus Foundation Ministry$13,82024%
First Priority of Broward Countyinc$10,00020%
Young Life$10,00020%
Mama Jeans Create Hub$8,0001n/a
Inspire School Programs$8,00013%
New Lyfe International Ministries$8,0001n/a
Concrete and Canvas$8,0001n/a
Memphis Leadership Foundation Inc$7,50010%
North Shore Evangelical Missionary Church$5,0001n/a
His Purpose Ministries Inc$5,0001n/a
Western Penn Hills Community Action$5,00015%
Across Nations$5,00010%
Beyond the Dance Network$4,8001n/a
On Ramps Covenant Church-Fresno Ca$4,3801n/a
Sowing Seeds with Faith Inc$3,50010%
National Network of Youth Ministries$3,50010%
Sun Valley Youth Center Inc$3,00010%
Passion La$3,00011%
Body of One Ministries Inc$3,0002n/a
Urban Born Nonprofit$2,7881n/a
School Connect Sa$1,59011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Devos Urban Leadership Initiative supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetReal Resources Inc: $381,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetHispanic Ministry Center: $344,100 over 5y, 7.9% of budget20 20 Vision For Schools Inc: $195,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetGrand Rapids Initiative for Leaders: $59,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetLegacy Disciple: $52,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetGlobal Service Office: $48,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUrban Youth Collaborative: $35,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHope College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Community Development Association: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetThe Center for Faithwalk Leadership: $25,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetYouth Leadership Institute: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTitus Foundation Ministry: $13,820 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetFirst Priority of Broward Countyinc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Life: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInspire School Programs: $8,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMemphis Leadership Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Penn Hills Community Action: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetAcross Nations: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSowing Seeds with Faith Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNational Network of Youth Ministries: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSun Valley Youth Center Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPassion La: $3,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSchool Connect Sa: $1,590 over 1y, 1.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Fuller Theological SeminaryCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fuller Theological Seminary · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Devos Urban Leadership Initiative?

Find your warmest path to Devos Urban Leadership Initiative 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.

About Devos Urban Leadership Initiative

How much does Devos Urban Leadership Initiative give?
Devos Urban Leadership Initiative reported 19 grants totaling $269,980 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Devos Urban Leadership Initiative fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (67%), Education (16%), Youth Development (7%).
Who are Devos Urban Leadership Initiative's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Real Resources Inc ($381k), Hispanic Ministry Center ($344k), 20 20 Vision For Schools Inc ($195k).
Does Devos Urban Leadership Initiative fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Devos Urban Leadership Initiative accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Devos Urban Leadership Initiative?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fuller Theological Seminary, Christian Community Foundation Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Devos Urban Leadership Initiative based?
Devos Urban Leadership Initiative is based in MI.

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 37 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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