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Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc

In their pursuit to eliminate poverty, Wayne Metro empowers people and communities to be strong, healthy, and thriving.

$43M
Granted FY2025still arriving
144
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$312k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$5.2MHousing & Shelter$4.7MCommunity Improvement$4.7MEnvironment$3.2MEducation$1.4MHealth$1.2MFood & Nutrition$966kYouth Development$809kOther$0
02FY2025 · 144 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 144 grants below total $3,390,985, the rows itemized in this filing. The $43,491,731 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $40,100,746 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k45 grants · $318k
  • $10k–50k88 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $931k
  • $250k+2 grants · $572k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MCOP-Monroe Community Oppor Prog: $232k → 10%MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS: $179k → 14%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES: $208k → 11%MCOP: $148k → 10%MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS: $174k → 14%STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES: $153k → 11%MCOP: $140k → 10%MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS: $122k → 14%Vehicles for Change: $107k → 11%MCOP: $118k → 10%Michigan Ability Partners: $121k → 14%VEHICLES FOR CHANGE: $84k → 11%MCOP: $104k → 10%MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS: $110k → 14%MCOP: $99k → 10%MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS: $99k → 14%MCOP: $99k → 10%MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS: $83k → 14%MCOP: $98k → 10%MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS: $79k → 14%MCOP: $89k → 10%Michigan Ability Partners: $62k → 14%FIRST STEP: $128k → 21%First Step: $125k → 21%FIRST STEP: $95k → 21%FIRST STEP: $89k → 21%WHAT ABOUT US INC: $60k → 21%WHAT ABOUT US INC: $50k → 21%WHAT ABOUT US INC: $50k → 21%CANFIELD CONSORTIUM: $98k → 21%Samaritas: $56k → 21%CANFIELD CONSORTIUM: $53k → 21%Community Treehouse Center Detroit: $116k → 21%CHRISTNET: $82k → 21%CHRISTNET: $81k → 21%AADHH: $58k → 21%METROPOLITAN DETROIT DIAPER BANK MDDB INC: $119k → 21%WE THE PEOPLE DETROIT: $65k → 21%URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC: $65k → 21%ACCESS: $475k → 21%ACCESS: $365k → 21%Access: $111k → 21%ACCESS: $110k → 21%ACCESS: $95k → 21%ACCESS: $79k → 21%ACCESS: $71k → 21%ACCESS: $60k → 21%ACCESS: $52k → 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 122 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

122
97

Total granted

$18M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
0%

Still filing today

55%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $956k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • MC
    MONROE COUNTY OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +105%
  • CR
    Camp Rd Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +70% · 76% of their budget
  • MA
    MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • WC
    WAYNE-WESTLAND COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2020 · $899k
  • MH
    MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $375k · revenue +20%
  • MACK AVENUE COMMUNITY CHURCH COMM DEVE CORP
    one grant, 2023 · $219k · revenue -30%
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
New Hope Community Development

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.

Housing & Shelter
3
Summer in the City

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…

Philanthropy
4
Cadillac Urban Gardens

To create equitable access to culturally relevant foods by fostering multigenertional knowledge and leadership

Food & Nutrition
5
Greater Detroit Community Outreach Center inc

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…

Human Services
6
Detroit Cultivator Community Land Trust

The maintenance and beautification of vacant land inside of a community

Food & Nutrition
7
Detroit Action Commonwealth

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.

Civil Rights
8
Detroit Cdfi Coalition

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…

Community Improvement
9
Northend Christian Community Development Corporation

North End CDC services the historic North End community of Detroit MI . The program specializes in providing workforce and youth development.

Community Improvement
10
Warriors On Wheels of Metropolitan Detroit

Our work assist physically challenged individuals with resources, transportation and caregiver assistance

Human Services
11
Southwest Detroit Community Benefits Coalition

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.

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12
Community Pride Mi
Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Perfecting Community Development Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

130 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

26
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/130
Grantees still filing
57/130
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOWNRIVER COMMUNITY CONFERENCE: $2,423,445 · OtherDOWNRIVER COMMUNITY CONFERENCEWAYNE-WESTLAND COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $898,800 · OtherWAYNE-WESTLAND COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICTMATRIX HUMAN SERVICES: $375,000 · OtherMath Corps: $343,330 · Other+122 more: $5,078,597 · Other+122 moreARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $1,417,521 · Human ServicesARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC…MONROE COUNTY OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM: $1,128,304 · Human ServicesMONROE COUNTY OPPORTUNITY PROGRAMMICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS: $1,029,293 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERSCHRISTNET: $493,787 · Human ServicesCHRISTNETFirst Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault: $450,397 · Human ServicesFirst Step The Western Wayne Count…OAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY: $385,403 · Human ServicesOAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE A…STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $385,183 · Human ServicesSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC+19 more: $1,739,974 · Human Services+19 moreCONNECT DETROIT: $844,777 · Community ImprovementCONNECT DETR…MACK AVENUE COMMUNITY CHURCH COMM DEVE CORP: $218,875 · Community ImprovementMACK AVENUE …EAST DAVISON VILLAGE COMMUNITY GROUP: $178,900 · Community ImprovementEAST DAVISON…FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $175,000 · Community ImprovementFAITH IN ACT…NORTH END WOODWARD COMMUNITY COALITION: $162,500 · Community ImprovementNORTH END WO…360 DETROIT INC: $140,000 · Community Improvement360 DETROIT …WOMEN OF BANGLATOWN: $125,000 · Community ImprovementOne New Humanity: $103,733 · Community ImprovementGEORGIA STREET COMMUNITY COLLECTIVE INC: $82,600 · Community Improvement+16 more: $407,005 · Community Improvement+16 moreEcoWorks: $767,340 · Housing & ShelterCOTS: $310,041 · Housing & ShelterUNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION: $270,000 · Housing & ShelterS&D PJ HOUSING: $156,673 · Housing & ShelterB A S S INC: $87,500 · Housing & ShelterGRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $86,625 · Housing & ShelterALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $59,975 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterCamp Rd Inc: $1,053,359 · EnvironmentWorkin Rootz: $160,873 · EnvironmentEAST MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COUNCIL INC: $152,500 · EnvironmentARBORETUM DETROIT: $57,353 · Environment+2 more: $44,815 · EnvironmentA Place of Refuge: $194,850 · Youth DevelopmentBRILLIANT DETROIT: $173,979 · Youth DevelopmentAvalon Village Inc: $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMEUNITY ONE STOP: $159,975 · Youth Development+1 more: $15,762 · Youth DevelopmentLincoln Behavioral Services: $184,652 · HealthTHE GUIDANCE CENTER: $175,350 · HealthMACK ALIVE: $21,932 · Health
Other$9,119,172Human Services$7,029,862Community Improvement$2,438,390Housing & Shelter$1,768,154Environment$1,468,900Youth Development$704,566Health$381,934

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARAB COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND S: $1,417,521 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetMONROE COUNTY OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM: $1,128,304 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetCamp Rd Inc: $1,053,359 over 3y, 76% of budgetMICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS: $1,029,293 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetCONNECT DETROIT: $844,777 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetEcoWorks: $767,340 over 3y, 23% of budgetCHRISTNET: $493,787 over 9y, 33% of budgetFirst Step The Western Wayne County Project Domestic Assault: $450,397 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetOAKLAND LIVINGSTON HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY: $385,403 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSTARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $385,183 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMATRIX HUMAN SERVICES: $375,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMath Corps: $343,330 over 3y, 37% of budgetCOTS: $310,041 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY HOUSING COALITION: $270,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSER METRO DETROIT JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC: $227,327 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMACK AVENUE COMMUNITY CHURCH COMM DEVE CORP: $218,875 over 1y, 16% of budgetCANFIELD CONSORTIUM: $210,250 over 6y, 72% of budgetSAMARITAS: $205,654 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVEHICLES FOR CHANGE INC: $204,120 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBailey Park Project: $194,971 over 5y, 18% of budgetA Place of Refuge: $194,850 over 3y, 80% of budgetLincoln Behavioral Services: $184,652 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetEAST DAVISON VILLAGE COMMUNITY GROUP: $178,900 over 4y, 56% of budgetTHE GUIDANCE CENTER: $175,350 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION NETWORK: $175,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWHAT ABOUT US INC: $174,520 over 4y, 100% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $173,979 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetNORTH END WOODWARD COMMUNITY COALITION: $162,500 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetWorkin Rootz: $160,873 over 4y, 20% of budgetAvalon Village Inc: $160,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetCOMEUNITY ONE STOP: $159,975 over 4y, 12% of budgetS&D PJ HOUSING: $156,673 over 4y, 45% of budgetEAST MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COUNCIL INC: $152,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetWe the People of Detroit: $152,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $152,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budget360 DETROIT INC: $140,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetWOMEN OF BANGLATOWN: $125,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetMetropolitan Diaper Bank: $118,807 over 1y, 33% of budgetFISH & LOAVES: $111,650 over 1y, 18% of budgetUrban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc: $107,208 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetOne New Humanity: $103,733 over 3y, 14% of budgetB A S S INC: $87,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetGRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORP: $86,625 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetGEORGIA STREET COMMUNITY COLLECTIVE INC: $82,600 over 3y, 35% of budgetDETROIT FRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC: $82,250 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF DEAFHARD OF HEARING: $81,475 over 2y, 52% of budgetGREATER QUINN CDC: $66,125 over 1y, 62% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR GIRLS: $59,975 over 1y, 1.3% 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 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 ↗

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.

United Way for Southe…The Skillman Foundati…Community Foundation …DTE Energy FoundationDetroit Future CityThe Kresge FoundationDetroit Regional Cham…Enterprise Community …Wayne State Universit…Comerica Charitable F…Michigan Health Endow…Ford Philanthropy
United Way for Southeastern MichiganMI83.1× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Vehicles for Change Inc: 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report 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 285 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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