· Public charity
Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc
In their pursuit to eliminate poverty, Wayne Metro empowers people and communities to be strong, healthy, and thriving.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 144 grants below total $3,390,985 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $43,491,731 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,100,746 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $318k
- $10k–50k88 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k9 grants · $931k
- $250k+2 grants · $572k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Camp Restore | $312,370 |
| COTS | $260,041 |
| MCOP-Monroe Community Oppor Prog | $232,126 |
| First Step | $124,696 |
| Michigan Ability Partners | $120,889 |
| Community Treehouse Center Detroit | $116,480 |
| Access | $110,518 |
| Greater Quinn Community Development Corporation | $66,125 |
| Samaritas | $56,484 |
| Park Grove Park Club | $53,346 |
| East Davison Village Community Group | $50,000 |
| ChristNet | $49,030 |
| Adolescent Fosters Wellness | $38,366 |
| Lincoln Behavioral | $34,977 |
| Center for Community Justice and Advocacy | $33,750 |
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 (FY17–25, $6.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
122 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 65 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $956k 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
- MCMONROE COUNTY OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +105%
- CRCamp Rd Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +70% · 76% of their budget
- MAMICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +52%
Funded once
- WCWAYNE-WESTLAND COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $899k
- MHMATRIX HUMAN SERVICESone grant, 2021 · $375k · revenue +20%
MACK AVENUE COMMUNITY CHURCH COMM DEVE CORPone grant, 2023 · $219k · revenue -30%
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.
A neighborhood based housing and development Corporation with the purpose of revializing the detroit area, by providubg affordable housing to persons of low and moderate incomes and providing youth development and networking.
Summer in the City strives to improve and expand community service in Metro Detroit. By bringing a diverse group of young people together to invest their energy in Detroit, Summer in the City programs address the immediate needs of city…
To create equitable access to culturally relevant foods by fostering multigenertional knowledge and leadership
Greater Detroit Community Outreach Center is a community based nonprofit organization designed to help prevent teen parenthood among school age youth. The center has a staff of outreach representatives who go into the homes with children…
Address immediate needs of indigent adults and children and organize and develop low-income Detroit leaders to address root causes of poverty, advance justice, and promote opportunity for all.
Detroit CDFI Coalition is organized for the purpose of furthering community economic development financing in the City of Detroit, Michigan, promoting and assisting growth and development of community development opportunities through the…
The maintenance and beautification of vacant land inside of a community
North End CDC services the historic North End community of Detroit MI . The program specializes in providing workforce and youth development.
To ensure that the interests of commuity residents, businesses and community-based organizations are recognized and protected in public and private development projects in the community.
Our work assist physically challenged individuals with resources, transportation and caregiver assistance
To operate exclusively for the promotion of civic action and social welfare by promoting the common good and general welfare of the residents of, and visitors to, the State of Michigan; To support public policies on the federal, state, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Perfecting Community Development Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Marjorie Street Garden. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 10 years old; the field is 13. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 22% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
130 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 130 of the 285 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Camp Rd Inc ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds CONNECT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds EcoWorks ↗
- Who funds CHRISTNET ↗
- Who funds First Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Math Corps ↗
- Who funds COTS ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds SER METRO DETROIT JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds MACK AVENUE COMMUNITY CHURCH COMM DEVE CORP ↗
- Who funds CANFIELD CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAS ↗
- Who funds VEHICLES FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds Bailey Park Project ↗
- Who funds A Place of Refuge ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Behavioral Services ↗
- Who funds EAST DAVISON VILLAGE COMMUNITY GROUP ↗
- Who funds THE GUIDANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WHAT ABOUT US INC ↗
- Who funds BRILLIANT DETROIT ↗
- Who funds NORTH END WOODWARD COMMUNITY COALITION ↗
- Who funds Workin Rootz ↗
- Who funds Avalon Village Inc ↗
- Who funds COMEUNITY ONE STOP ↗
- Who funds S&D PJ HOUSING ↗
- Who funds EAST MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
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: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Skillman Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Detroit Future City · The Kresge Foundation · Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inc · Enterprise Community Partners Inc · Wayne State University Research and Technology Park in the City of Detroit · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Ford Philanthropy
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 Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc 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.
- Vehicles for Change Inc — 16% of income from government
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.