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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.

$221k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Youth Development$342kHousing & Shelter$300kHealth$176kEducation$154kHuman Services$134kCommunity Improvement$82kInternational$53kArts & Culture$44kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$254k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
First Step$100,000
Mercy Education Project$100,000
The Detroit Creativity Proj$7,000
Calebs Kids$7,000
Crossroads of Michigan$7,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Maggie's Wigs for Kids: $42k → 10%LifeBUILDERS: $17k → 21%Zaman International: $53k → 21%Dutton Farmer: $100k → 8%Hannan Center: $27k → 21%Calebs Kids: $7k → 21%FREEDOM HOUSE: $80k → 21%Freedom House: $20k → 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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$544k · 5 repeat orgs$758k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

$544k
$537k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterHealthArts & 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

  • Developing Kingdoms in Different Stages
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +66%
  • FH
    FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +64%
  • M6
    MICAH 6 COMMUNITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +971%

Funded once

  • THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAMgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +111%
  • DF
    DUTTON FARM
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • LA
    LAWN ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +336% · 52% of their budget
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
Community Education Commission

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.

Education
2
The Youth Connection Inc

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.

Youth Development
3
Detroit Phoenix Center

To provide critical resources, support and a safe nurturing environment for youth transitioning out of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
4
Detroit Parent Network

To be a champion for parents of children in the community.

Human Services
5
Say Detroit

Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.

Housing & Shelter
6
Arise Detroit

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.

Community Improvement
7
Michigan Family Resources

Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.

Education
8
Action for Liberation

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

Civil Rights
9
Lansing Promise

Lansing Promise helps students in gaining access to higher education through readiness and scholarships.

Education
10
Detroit Life Is Valuable Everyday

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.

Health
11
Diploma Equity Project

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.

Education
12
Center for Success Network

Center for success unites literacy and community to empower students in the journey of education.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Detroit Creativity Project; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUTTON FARM: $100,000 · Human ServicesDUTTON FARMFREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT: $100,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM HOUSE DETROITZAMAN INTERNATIONAL: $52,700 · Human ServicesZAMAN INTERNATIONALMAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGAN INC: $42,000 · Human ServicesMAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGA…HANNAN CENTER: $27,000 · Human ServicesHANNAN CENTERLifeBUILDERS: $17,333 · Human Services+1 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAMDeveloping Kingdoms in Different Stages: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentDeveloping Kingdoms in Diff…LAWN ACADEMY: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAWN ACADEMYBRILLIANT DETROIT: $17,333 · Youth DevelopmentBRILLIANT DETROITSOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterSOUTH OAKLAND SHE…MERCY EDUCATION PROJECT: $100,000 · EducationMERCY EDUCAT…ACCENT PONTIAC INC: $44,333 · EducationACCENT PONTI…First Step: $100,000 · OtherFirst StepDETROIT AREA PRE-COLLEGE ENGINEERING PROGRAM INC: $27,000 · OtherDETROIT AREA…THE DETROIT CREATIVITY PROJECT: $7,000 · OtherCROSSROADS OF MICHIGAN: $7,000 · OtherMICAH 6 COMMUNITY: $99,920 · Community ImprovementMICAH 6 CO…PONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $27,000 · Community ImprovementPONTIAC CO…HEALTH EMERGENCY LIFELINE PROGRAMS: $27,000 · HealthLiving Arts: $27,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$346,033Youth Development$317,333Housing & Shelter$200,000Education$144,333Other$141,000Community Improvement$126,920Health$27,000Arts & Culture$27,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTH OAKLAND SHELTER: $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $100,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetMERCY EDUCATION PROJECT: $100,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetDeveloping Kingdoms in Different Stages: $100,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetDUTTON FARM: $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLAWN ACADEMY: $100,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT: $100,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetMICAH 6 COMMUNITY: $99,920 over 2y, 16% of budgetZAMAN INTERNATIONAL: $52,700 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetACCENT PONTIAC INC: $44,333 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetMAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGAN INC: $42,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetHEALTH EMERGENCY LIFELINE PROGRAMS: $27,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHANNAN CENTER: $27,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPONTIAC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDETROIT AREA PRE-COLLEGE ENGINEERING PROGRAM INC: $27,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLiving Arts: $27,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $17,333 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLifeBUILDERS: $17,333 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DETROIT CREATIVITY PROJECT: $7,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

Community Foundation …United Way for Southe…DTE Energy FoundationFord PhilanthropyThe Skillman Foundati…The Kresge FoundationThe Village Club Foun…McGregor FundMichigan Health Endow…The Jewish FundComerica Charitable F…Consumers Energy Foun…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI36.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Impact100 Detroit Impact100 Metro Detroit funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Impact100 Detroit Impact100 Metro Detroit. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%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
    8report 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, FY20–24
    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 Impact100 Detroit Impact100 Metro Detroit?

    Find your warmest path to Impact100 Detroit Impact100 Metro 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 22 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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