Michigan · Public charity
Say Detroit
Providing pathways to success for detroiters in need.
- $775k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $290k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Say Detroit funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $290k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $284k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $287k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $394k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $280k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $265k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $449k | 28% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $494k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries | $826,186 | 8 | 2% |
| College for Creative Studies | $310,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Cass Community Social Services Inc | $205,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Sasha Center Inc | $102,500 | 8 | 32% |
| Michigan Veterans Foundations Inc | $100,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development Inc | $100,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Humble Design Inc | $96,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Cots | $95,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Westside Cultural & Athletic Club | $88,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Notes For Notes Inc | $67,500 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 38 grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($229k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Say Detroit supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Ford Philanthropy · DTE Energy Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Detroit2nepal Foundation · Detroit Area Agency on Aging · The Marshall Mathers Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Fca Foundation · The Skillman Foundation
How this is measured
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About Say Detroit
- How much does Say Detroit give?
- Say Detroit reported 19 itemized grants totaling $289,500, out of $774,989 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Say Detroit fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (30%), Housing & Shelter (19%), Education (11%).
- Who are Say Detroit's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries ($826k), College for Creative Studies ($310k), Cass Community Social Services Inc ($205k).
- Does Say Detroit fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Say Detroit?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Ford Philanthropy.
- Where is Say Detroit based?
- Say Detroit is based in MI.
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