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Transforming Power Fund

The TRANSFORMING POWER FUND provides funding, training and other resources for local projects that address the root causes of systematic problems and advance holistic solutions in detroit, highland park and hamtramck.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$455k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $1,090,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,370,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $280,000 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

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $315k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $320k
  • $250k+1 grant · $455k
$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS$455,000
GARAGE CULTURAL$70,000
FEED YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD$62,500
Individual grant recipient$62,500
PETTY PROPOLIS INC$62,500
ARBORETUM DETROIT$62,500
HIGHLAND PARK YOUTH ADOVACY ALLIANCE$45,000
BRIGHTMOOR CONNECTION$45,000
EYE LEARN CARES$45,000
WARRIORS ON WHEELS OF METROPOLITIAN DETROIT$45,000
MICHIGAN COALITION FOR DEAF AND AHRD OF HEARING PEOPLE$45,000
WISDOM INSTITUTE$45,000
SOUL HARVEST$45,000
02The need
02

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 (FY24–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 21%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 21%WARRIORS ON WHEELS OF METROPOLITIAN DETROIT: $45k → 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 field
03the grantee network

7 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. 7 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)
7/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $455,000 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INCGarage Cultural: $70,000 · Arts & CultureGarage CulturalIndividual grant recipient: $62,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPETTY PROPOLIS INC: $62,500 · OtherPETTY PROPOLIS INCHIGHLAND PARK YOUTH ADVOCACY ALLIANCE INC: $45,000 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK YOUTH ADVOCACY AL…SOUL HARVEST MINISTRIES INC: $45,000 · OtherSOUL HARVEST MINISTRIES INCEYE LEARN CARES: $45,000 · OtherEYE LEARN CARESMICHIGAN COALITION FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING: $45,000 · OtherMICHIGAN COALITION FOR DEAF AND…FEED YOUR NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $62,500 · Food & NutritionFEED YOUR N…Brightmoor Connection: $45,000 · Food & NutritionBrightmoor …ARBORETUM DETROIT: $62,500 · EnvironmentWARRIORS ON WHEELS OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $45,000 · Human ServicesWISDOM INSTITUTE: $45,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$525,000Other$305,000Food & Nutrition$107,500Environment$62,500Human Services$45,000Education$45,000

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 budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $455,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGarage Cultural: $70,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetARBORETUM DETROIT: $62,500 over 1y, 41% of budgetWISDOM INSTITUTE: $45,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBrightmoor Connection: $45,000 over 1y, 28% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Transforming Power Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Transforming Power Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Transforming Power Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Transforming Power Fund 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 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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