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Devos Urban Leadership Initiative at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$79k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $139k
$7,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$102k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HISPANIC MINISTRY CENTER INC$79,100
REAL RESOURCES INC$60,000
THRIVE COLLECTIVE$20,000
GLOBAL SERVICE OFFICE$15,000
INSPIRE SCHOOL PROGRAMS$8,000
CONCRETE AND CANVAS$8,000
MAMA JEANS CREATE HUB$8,000
PARTNERS IN ACTION INC$8,000
NEW LYFE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC$8,000
GRAND RAPIDS INITIATIVE FOR LEADERS$7,500
LEGACY DISCIPLE$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
URBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE$7,000
LEGACY DISCIPLE$5,000
FIRST PRIORITY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC: $3k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 15 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
15

Total granted

$1.2M
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
0%

Still filing today

73%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther
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

  • RR
    REAL RESOURCES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $381k · revenue +179%
  • HM
    HISPANIC MINISTRY CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $344k · revenue +21%
  • 22
    20 20 Vision For Schools Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $195k · revenue +181%

Funded once

  • HC
    HOPE COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +25%
  • CC
    CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +28%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR FAITHWALK LEADERSHIPgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +104%
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
Youth Conference Ministries Inc

To develop youth servant leaders who will share the message of jesus christ with their peers.

Youth Development
2
Reach Out Ministries Inc

Spiritual awakening and training youth leaders.

Religion
3
Youthfront Inc

Interdenomination ministry dedicated to bringing youth into a growing relationship with jesus christ.

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4
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
5
LEAD222 United Ltd

To teach youth ministers and youth pastors at christian churches how to instruct or mentor christian youth on the value or religion and bring jesus christ into their lives as well as instructing youth how to be useful, responsible,…

Religion
6
Ministry Leadership Initiative

Ministry Leadership Initiative partners with local churches and religious organizations to enrich the lives of young people with Christian witness by: developing authentic, intentional, and highly proficient leadership, sharing the love…

Religion
7
Youth Ministry Inc
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8
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
9
Nexus International

Equipping and encouraging youth work, both domestic and abroad, through leadership development of indigenous (non-u.s.) christian youth workers in churches, non profit organizations, orphanages and schools.

Religion
10
Youth Believing in Change Inc

To develop servant-leaders through spiritual, educational, and entrepreneurial training. our vision - to inspire, equip, train, and empower youth to become servant-leaders and/or entrepreneurs. our passion - to nurture the "divine spark"…

Youth Development
11
Generation Distinct

Generation Distinct equips to inspire and equip young adults to discover their God-given passions and join the adventure of changing the world for Christ. We create tools for young adults to believe in three core truths: 1) Young people…

Human Services
12
Student Impact International

Assist in evangelizing the youth and student culture, assist Christian students and leaders to achieve spiritual maturity and spread the Christian message.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hispanic Ministry Center; the most unlike its peers is School Connect Sa. 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

26 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. 26 of the 37 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REAL RESOURCES INC: $381,000 · ReligionREAL RESOURCES INCHISPANIC MINISTRY CENTER: $344,100 · ReligionHISPANIC MINISTRY CENTERGRAND RAPIDS INITIATIVE FOR LEADERS: $59,500 · ReligionGRAND RAPIDS INITIATIVE FOR LEADERSLEGACY DISCIPLE: $52,500 · ReligionLEGACY DISCIPLE+2 more: $10,000 · Religion20 20 Vision For Schools Inc: $195,000 · Education20 20 Vision For S…HOPE COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationHOPE COLLEGEINSPIRE SCHOOL PROGRAMS: $8,000 · Education+2 more: $5,090 · EducationGLOBAL SERVICE OFFICE: $48,500 · OtherGLOBAL SERVICE O…CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL DISCIPLESHIP: $45,000 · OtherCENTER FOR TRANS…Individual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant…Youth Leadership Institute: $15,000 · OtherYouth Leadership…MAMA JEANS CREATE HUB: $8,000 · OtherNEW LYFE INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES: $8,000 · OtherCONCRETE AND CANVAS: $8,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MENTAL ILLNESS CONTRA COSTA: $7,500 · Other+10 more: $41,468 · Other+10 moreURBAN YOUTH COLLABORATIVE: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST PRIORITY OF BROWARD COUNTYINC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMEMPHIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementPASSION LA: $3,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CENTER FOR FAITHWALK LEADERSHIP: $25,000 · Public BenefitTITUS FOUNDATION MINISTRY: $13,820 · Housing & Shelter
Religion$847,100Education$233,090Other$203,968Youth Development$62,500Community Improvement$28,000Public Benefit$25,000Housing & Shelter$13,820

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

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
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.

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 Se…Christian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Devos Urban Leadership Initiative funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Devos Urban Leadership Initiative. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 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.

    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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