· Public charity
Homeless Action Network of Detroit
Our mission is to increase awareness of the problems of people who are homeless and the development and carrying out of strategies to create permanent solutions to homelessness in our community.
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
- $50k–250k1 grant · $247k
- $250k+6 grants · $5.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wayne Metro Community Action Agency | $2,723,304 |
| Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness | $1,010,891 |
| Community and Home Supports | $713,883 |
| United Community Housing Coalition | $438,600 |
| Ruth Ellis Center | $393,943 |
| Detroit Pheonix Center | $373,825 |
| Methodist Children's Home Society | $246,712 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 76% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $198M · revenue +86% · 53% of their budget- CHCOMMUNITY & HOME SUPPORTS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +2%
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN2× · 2022–2023 · $779k · revenue +795%
Funded once
- FHFREEDOM HOUSE DETROITone grant, 2024 · $446k · revenue 0%
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.
The mission of the washtenaw housing alliance is to end homelessness in our community.
To assist people with low or moderate income to obtain safe and affordable housing
The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.
Our mission is to assist our affiliates to increase capacity to build simple decent homes in partnership with people in need in the State of Michigan.
To support Methodist Children's Home Society, which is a not for profit organization that provides shelter and services to emotionally impaired children.
To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.
The fair housing center of west michigan's mission is to ensure fair housing choice and equal access to housing opportunities for all. through education and advocacy, we affirm the right of all people to choose where they live, free from…
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
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.
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness and the most unlike its peers is Ruth Ellis Center. 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.
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 Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY & HOME SUPPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN COALITION AGAINST HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds Methodist Children's Home Society ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PHOENIX CENTER ↗
- Who funds RUTH ELLIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS ↗
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: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · McGregor Fund · The Kresge Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · James and Cleo Hamilton Family Charitable Trust · Ally Charitable Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Homeless Action Network of Detroit 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.
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