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Impact100 Detroit Impact100 Metro Detroit
Impact100 Metro Detroit is working to be a leader in collective philanthropy and to build a strong presence in metro Detroit which includes specifically the counties of Macomb, Oakland and Wayne.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| First Step | $100,000 |
| Mercy Education Project | $100,000 |
| The Detroit Creativity Proj | $7,000 |
| Calebs Kids | $7,000 |
| Crossroads of Michigan | $7,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $346k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% 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 +64% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k 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
Developing Kingdoms in Different Stages2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +66%- FHFREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +64%
- M6MICAH 6 COMMUNITY2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +971%
Funded once
THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAMgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +111%- LALAWN ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +336% · 52% of their budget
- DFDUTTON FARMone grant, 2024 · $100k · 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.
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 Youth Connection is committed to connecting all youth and their families in metro Detroit to a brighter future by providing quality programs and supportive services.
To provide critical resources, support and a safe nurturing environment for youth transitioning out of homelessness and poverty.
To be a champion for parents of children in the community.
Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.
To inspire a community of active engagement, personal responsibility and hope by connecting people to opportunities and resources to transform the quality of life for all Detroiters.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
Michigan Liberation is dedicated to the leadership development of community members and creation of effective campaigns to advance racial, gender and economic justice in Michigan
Lansing Promise helps students in gaining access to higher education through readiness and scholarships.
Dlive is a health-centered violence intervention and prevention organization that works to advance the health outcomes and well-being of young adults who have sustained injury from community violence.
The organization works with k-12, higher education and other community partners to design and implement programs to improve rates of college persistence and completion.
Center for success unites literacy and community to empower students in the journey of education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Detroit Creativity Project and the most unlike its peers is Calebs Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 22 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.
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 SOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LAWN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DUTTON FARM ↗
- Who funds MERCY EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Developing Kingdoms in Different Stages ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT ↗
- Who funds MICAH 6 COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ACCENT PONTIAC INC ↗
- Who funds MAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH EMERGENCY LIFELINE PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds Living Arts ↗
- Who funds HANNAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT AREA PRE-COLLEGE ENGINEERING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LifeBUILDERS ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT CREATIVITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Calebs Kids ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · The Skillman Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Village Club Foundation · McGregor Fund · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · The Jewish Fund · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Consumers Energy 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 Impact100 Detroit Impact100 Metro 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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