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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.

$766k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$178k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$11MCommunity Improvement$5.9MHousing & Shelter$3.8MPublic Benefit$1.5MEducation$759kScience & Tech$690kEnvironment$684kReligion$400kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $602,254, the rows itemized in this filing. The $766,460 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $164,206 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $456k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$209M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $16k → 21%CODY ROUGE COMMUNITY ACTION ALLIANCE: $100k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
PA
KY
AZ
MS
TX
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 31 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
125

Total granted

$22M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+48%

Still filing today

29%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • DE
    DETROIT ECONOMIC GROWTH ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2018–2021 · $605k · revenue +122%
  • WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT
    2× · 2019–2020 · $500k · revenue +38%
  • LIFE REMODELED
    2× · 2022–2024 · $353k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHROMA OWNER 20 LLC
    one grant, 2018 · $750k
  • CF
    CENTURY FORWARD
    one grant, 2018 · $568k
  • MIDTOWN DETROIT INC
    one grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue +6%
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
Dream of Detroit

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.

Human Services
2
Develop Detroit Inc

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…

Community Improvement
3
Detroit Land Bank Community Development Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
4
Detroit Future City

Detroit Future City (DFC) was founded in 2015 to catalyze implementation of the Detroit Strategic Framework, a 50-year vision for the City of Detroit developed with input from over 100,000 Detroiters. See Schedule O.

Community Improvement
5
Doing Development Differently in Metro Detroit (D4) Coalition Inc

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…

Community Improvement
6
Detroit Development Fund

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…

Community Improvement
7
Detroit Cultivator Community Land Trust

The maintenance and beautification of vacant land inside of a community

Food & Nutrition
8
Connect Detroit

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.

Community Improvement
9
Mack Alive

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Health
10
Greater Lansing Destination Development Foundation
Community Improvement
11
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit

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12
About Face Detroit
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midtown Detroit Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 164 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF DETROIT: $15,966,092 · OtherCITY OF DETROITDETROIT LAND BANK AUTHORITY: $2,758,000 · OtherDETROIT LAND BANK AUTHORITYCHROMA OWNER 20 LLC: $750,000 · Other+140 more: $2,919,219 · Other+140 moreDETROIT ECONOMIC GROWTH ASSOCIATION: $605,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT EC…WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: $500,000 · Community ImprovementWAYNE STAT…MIDTOWN DETROIT INC: $300,000 · Community ImprovementMIDTOWN DE…DETROIT BLIGHT BUSTERS INC: $212,850 · Community ImprovementDETROIT BL…LIVE6 ALLIANCE: $200,000 · Community ImprovementLIVE6 ALLI…BETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION: $164,400 · Community ImprovementBETTER BLO…E WARREN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $138,277 · Community ImprovementE WARREN D…Osborn Neighborhood Alliance: $91,316 · Community Improvement+4 more: $100,000 · Community ImprovementLIFE REMODELED: $353,300 · Housing & ShelterGRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterLINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY: $208,610 · EducationCody Rouge Community Action Alliance: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $15,840 · Human ServicesTHE N'NAMDI CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $38,911 · Arts & CultureSADZA SPACE: $14,960 · Arts & CultureSUNBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GREENING OF DETROIT: $34,000 · Environment
Other$22,393,311Community Improvement$2,311,843Housing & Shelter$378,300Education$208,610Human Services$115,840Arts & Culture$63,871Environment$34,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDETROIT ECONOMIC GROWTH ASSOCIATION: $605,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: $500,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetLIFE REMODELED: $353,300 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetMIDTOWN DETROIT INC: $300,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetDETROIT BLIGHT BUSTERS INC: $212,850 over 2y, 42% of budgetLINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY: $208,610 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIVE6 ALLIANCE: $200,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION: $164,400 over 2y, 11% of budgetE WARREN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $138,277 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetCody Rouge Community Action Alliance: $100,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetOsborn Neighborhood Alliance: $91,316 over 1y, 25% of budgetDETROIT CDFI COALITION: $50,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetTHE N'NAMDI CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $38,911 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetTHE GREENING OF DETROIT: $34,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSouthWest Detroit Business Association: $31,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMETRO SOLUTIONS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMICHIGAN CDFI COALITION: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ALGER THEATER: $18,988 over 1y, 32% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $15,840 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTART GARDEN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSADZA SPACE: $14,960 over 1y, 10% of budgetSOUTHWEST HOUSING SOLUTIONS: $13,113 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLARK PARK COALITION: $10,267 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSUNBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetINVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 METRO SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds GRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN CDFI COALITION ↗

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 …The Skillman Foundati…United Way for Southe…Detroit Economic Grow…The Kresge FoundationCommunity Development…Detroit Industrial Sc…Enterprise Community …DTE Energy FoundationHudson-Webber Foundat…Wayne-Metropolitan Co…Comerica Charitable F…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI24.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
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, FY20–25
    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.

    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 164 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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