· Public charity
Invest Detroit Foundation
Idf promotes a higher quality of life for distressed communities, primarily in the city of detroit through attracting new industry, encouraging the development of business, housing, transportation and other community resources.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $602,254 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $766,460 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $164,206 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $456k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFE REMODELED | $178,300 |
| OSBORN NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE | $91,316 |
| CITY OF DETROIT | $82,050 |
| EAST WARREN DEVELOPMENT CORP | $54,329 |
| DETROIT CDFI COALITION | $50,000 |
| BETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION | $35,700 |
| MICHIGAN CDFI COALITION | $25,000 |
| METRO SOLUTIONS INC | $25,000 |
| EMPOWERMENT PLAN | $15,840 |
| SADZA SPACE | $14,960 |
| CLUTCH CONSULTING LLC | $12,500 |
| ULTREIA LLC | $11,291 |
| BAOBAB FARE | $5,968 |
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 (FY21–24, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
31 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k 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
- DEDETROIT ECONOMIC GROWTH ASSOCIATION3× · 2018–2021 · $605k · revenue +122%
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT2× · 2019–2020 · $500k · revenue +38%
LIFE REMODELED2× · 2022–2024 · $353k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- COCHROMA OWNER 20 LLCone grant, 2018 · $750k
- CFCENTURY FORWARDone grant, 2018 · $568k
MIDTOWN DETROIT INCone grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue +6%
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.
Dream of Detroit is combining community organizing with strategic housing and land development to build a healthy community and empower a marginalized neighborhood on the Westside of Detroit.
Develop detroit, inc. is a nonprofit community development firm focused on providing affordable and mixed income housing, as well as strategic economic and commercial development that will help stabilize and transform disinvested…
The detroit land bank community development corporation's mission is to serve the people of the city of detroit, michigan through the advancement of economic welfare, the promotion of community development, and the provision of affordable…
The maintenance and beautification of vacant land inside of a community
To build a diverse coalition of community, environmental, faith and organized labor organizations united to strengthen metro detroit through meaningful community engagement in the creation of sustainable "win-win" economic development…
Detroit Development Fund (DDF) promotes the economic development of low to moderate income residents in the city of Detroit. DDF focuses on lending programs to provide financial assistance for minority small business owners, affordable…
To strategically solve problems through collaboratives with City of Detroit Departments, nonprofit organizations and local grant makers in order to secure the maximum federal, state, and national foundation dollars for the city Detroit.
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Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit
Neighborhood transformation, blight removal and housing rehabilitation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midtown Detroit Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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. 26 of the 164 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 DETROIT ECONOMIC GROWTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds LIFE REMODELED ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN DETROIT INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT BLIGHT BUSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY ↗
- Who funds LIVE6 ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds E WARREN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance ↗
- Who funds Osborn Neighborhood Alliance ↗
- Who funds DETROIT CDFI COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE N'NAMDI CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds THE GREENING OF DETROIT ↗
- Who funds SouthWest Detroit Business Association ↗
- Who funds GRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds METRO SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN CDFI COALITION ↗
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 · The Skillman Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Detroit Economic Growth Association · The Kresge Foundation · Community Development Advocates of Detroit · Detroit Industrial School · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · Dte Energy Foundation · Hudson-Webber Foundation · Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc · Comerica Charitable 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 Invest Detroit Foundation 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.