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The Detroit Assoc of Black Org at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

The Detroit Assoc of Black Org

To build communities by enhancing the capabilities of other community organizations

$735k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$71k
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, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$565kReligion$274kCommunity Improvement$202kPublic Safety & Disaster$97kHousing & Shelter$71k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $378,812, the rows itemized in this filing. The $735,227 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $356,415 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 · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $347k
$51,525
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISAIAH 58 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$71,021
BETHEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DETROI$60,989
CITADEL OF PRAISE$57,990
GREATER GRACE TEMPLE$55,823
SECOND EBENEZER$51,525
REBUILDING OUR COMMUNITIES$50,133
GREATER PENTECOSTAL TEMPLE$11,484
UWSEM$10,591
MASTERS COMMISSION$9,256
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISAIAH 58 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $103k → 8%SECOND EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH: $88k → 21%SECOND EBENEZER: $52k → 21%GREATER PENTECOSTAL TEMPLE: $19k → 21%GREATER PENTECOSTAL TEMPLE: $11k → 21%UNITED WAY SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $97k → 21%BETHEL COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION CENTER: $95k → 21%CITADEL OF PRAISE: $85k → 21%BETHEL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DETROI: $61k → 21%CITADEL OF PRAISE: $58k → 21%UWSEM: $11k → 21%MASTER'S COMMISSION INC: $85k → 21%GREATER GRACE TEMPLE: $56k → 21%MASTERS COMMISSION: $9k → 21%NEW DESTINY CHURCH: $10k → 21%HOLY HOPE HERITAGE: $5k → 21%REBUILDING OUR COMMUNITIES: $100k → 21%REBUILDING OUR COMMUNITIES: $50k → 21%SECOND CHANCE 2000: $71k → 21%ISAIAH 58 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $71k → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$994k · 8 repeat orgs$215k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$994k
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+19400%

Still filing today

50%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Community ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • I5
    Isaiah 58 Community Development
    2× · 2023–2024 · $174k
  • BC
    Bethel Community Transformation Center
    2× · 2023–2024 · $156k · revenue +2% · 40% of their budget
  • RO
    REBUILDING OUR COMMUNITIES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k

Funded once

  • IP
    IMPERFECTLY PERFECT LIFE
    one grant, 2023 · $74k
  • SC
    SECOND CHANCE 2000graduated
    one grant, 2023 · $71k · revenue ×195
  • ND
    NEW DESTINY CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 13 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REBUILDING OUR COMMUNITIES: $149,685 · OtherREBUILDING OUR COMMUNITIESCITADEL OF PRAISE: $142,935 · OtherCITADEL OF PRAISESECOND EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH: $139,331 · OtherSECOND EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCHIMPERFECTLY PERFECT LIFE: $73,719 · OtherIMPERFECTLY PERFECT LIFEGREATER GRACE TEMPLE OF THE APOSTOLIC FAITH INC: $55,823 · OtherGREATER GRACE TEMPLE OF THE APOSTOLIC FAITH INCGREATER PENTECOSTAL TEMPLE: $30,751 · Other+2 more: $14,792 · OtherIsaiah 58 Community Development: $173,940 · Community ImprovementIsaiah 58 Community DevelopmentBethel Community Transformation Center: $156,040 · Community ImprovementBethel Community Transformation CenterMASTERS COMMISSION INC: $94,142 · Community ImprovementMASTERS COMMISSION INCUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $107,398 · Public Safety & DisasterUNITED WAY…SECOND CHANCE 2000: $71,149 · Housing & Shelter
Other$607,036Community Improvement$424,122Public Safety & Disaster$107,398Housing & Shelter$71,149

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBethel Community Transformation Center: $156,040 over 2y, 40% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $107,398 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMASTERS COMMISSION INC: $94,142 over 2y, 58% 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 Isaiah 58 Community Development ↗
  • Who funds Bethel Community Transformation Center ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds MASTERS COMMISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND CHANCE 2000 ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Detroit Assoc of Black Org funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Detroit Assoc of Black Org. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 13 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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