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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.

$5.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$293M
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $247k
  • $250k+6 grants · $5.7M
$438,600
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 20%Michigan Coalition Against Homelessness: $1.0M → 9%Detroit Pheonix Center: $374k → 21%COMMUNITY AND HOME SUPPORTS: $259k → 21%DETROIT PHOENIX CENTER: $124k → 21%COMMUNITY AND HOME SUPPORTS: $44k → 21%Community and Home Supports: $714k → 21%COMMUNITY & HOME SUPPORTS: $526k → 21%FEEDOM HOUSE: $446k → 21%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $547k → 21%Methodist Children's Home Society: $247k → 21%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$292M · 10 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
1

Total granted

$292M
$446k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $198M · revenue +86% · 53% of their budget
  • CH
    COMMUNITY & HOME SUPPORTS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +24%
  • UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    2× · 2022–2023 · $779k · revenue +979%

Funded once

  • FH
    FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT
    one grant, 2024 · $446k · revenue 0%
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
Washtenaw Housing Alliance

The mission of the washtenaw housing alliance is to end homelessness in our community.

Housing & Shelter
2
Michigan Advocacy Program

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.

Crime & Legal
3
Detroit Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness

Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.

Housing & Shelter
5
Fair Housing Center of W Michigan

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…

Housing & Shelter
6
Center for Family Health

The mission of the Center for Family Health is opening the door to health care for all.

Health
7
Habitat for Humanity of Michigan Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
8
New Development Corporation

Promote home ownership & affordable housing to alleviate neighborhood blight in targeted low and moderate income ares. work with low-income individuals to help them obtain and retain home ownership, facilitate homeowner repair grants and…

Housing & Shelter
9
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.

Human Services
10
Metro Community DevelopmentInc

We build partnerships to create economic opportunities to promote vibrant and prosperous communities. We foster entrepreneurs and grow small businesses. We develop affordable housing and prepare families for homeownership.

Community Improvement
11
Methodist Children's Home Society Supporting Organization

To support Methodist Children's Home Society, which is a not for profit organization that provides shelter and services to emotionally impaired children.

Human Services
12
Midlands Housing Alliance Inc

The midlands housing alliance (mha) mission is "engaging and equipping homeless adults for the midlands to transition into stability and permanent housing."

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community & Home Supports Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc: $197,597,224 · Community ImprovementWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency IncUNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION: $85,457,624 · Housing & ShelterUNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITIO…+1 more: $185,123 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY & HOME SUPPORTS INC: $1,542,673 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN COALITION AGAINST HOMELESSNESS: $1,010,891 · Human ServicesMethodist Children's Home Society: $793,879 · Human ServicesDETROIT PHOENIX CENTER: $497,628 · Human ServicesFREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT: $446,403 · Human ServicesTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND: $3,158,434 · OtherSOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS: $1,397,383 · HealthUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $779,051 · Public Safety & DisasterRUTH ELLIS CENTER: $476,437 · Recreation & Sports
Community Improvement$197,597,224Housing & Shelter$85,642,747Human Services$4,291,474Other$3,158,434Health$1,397,383Public Safety & Disaster$779,051Recreation & Sports$476,437

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc: $197,597,224 over 5y, 53% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION: $85,457,624 over 5y, 85% of budgetTHE HEAT AND WARMTH FUND: $3,158,434 over 2y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY & HOME SUPPORTS INC: $1,542,673 over 4y, 13% of budgetSOUTHWEST COUNSELING SOLUTIONS: $1,397,383 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMICHIGAN COALITION AGAINST HOMELESSNESS: $1,010,891 over 1y, 35% of budgetMethodist Children's Home Society: $793,879 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $779,051 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetDETROIT PHOENIX CENTER: $497,628 over 2y, 19% of budgetRUTH ELLIS CENTER: $476,437 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT: $446,403 over 1y, 13% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $185,123 over 2y, 2.0% 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.

United Way for Southe…DTE Energy FoundationCommunity Foundation …McGregor FundThe Kresge FoundationMichigan Health Endow…James and Cleo Hamilt…Ally Charitable Found…The Skillman Foundati…Charles Stewart Mott …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…
United Way for Southeastern MichiganMI23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Homeless Action Network of Detroit funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Homeless Action Network of Detroit. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
    2report 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
    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.
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    How do I get to Homeless Action Network of Detroit?

    Find your warmest path to Homeless Action Network of Detroit 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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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