How much did WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

act activateactivate awardee

2021

cdad miniactivate fundamentalsactivate collaborationcollaboration pilot

2022

passthrough award

2023

passthrough award

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k21 grants · $159k
$10k–50k5 grants · $126k
$50k–250k7 grants · $1.0M

$8,000

Median grant

States reached

$21M

Total assets

Largest grants

JEFFERSON CHALMERS FARMERS MARKET$150,000
FREEDOM HOUSE$150,000
A GIRL LIKE ME INC$150,000
SUGAR LAW CENTER FOR ECONOMIC & SOCIAL JUSTICE$150,000
DETROIT HORSE POWER$150,000
CLASS ACT DETROIT$150,000
BULK SPACE$115,000
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS$47,500
URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC$41,531
GRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$15,000
BEREWORNSAMANTHA CERWIN$11,594
NEXT CHAPTER BOOKS LLC$10,000
HARRY RICH CLOTHIER LLC$9,978
SEPIA COFFEE PROJECT$9,600
TRAVELITE$8,812

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $637k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.6M · 17 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +173% since the first grant, against +70% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+173%

+70%

Still filing today

82%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $972k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

BRILLIANT DETROIT
2× · 2022–2023 · $300k · revenue +430%
AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN MI INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +57%
FH
FREEDOM HOUSE
2× · 2022–2024 · $185k · revenue +134%

Funded once

DS
DETROIT SOUND CONSERVANCYgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +2339% · 33% of their budget
BP
BAILEY PARK NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +4285%
HERITAGE WORKS
one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -62% · 32% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Arise Detroit

To inspire a community of active engagement, personal responsibility and hope by connecting people to opportunities and resources to transform the quality of life for all Detroiters.

Community Improvement

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

The Greening of Detroit

Growing tomorrow's detroit...together.

Environment

The Detroit Equity Report Inc

To promote equality and inclusion in society.

Employment

The Detroit Institute of Arts

The dia creates experiences that help each visitor find personal meaning in art.

Arts & Culture

Connect Detroit

To strategically solve problems through collaboratives with City of Detroit Departments, nonprofit organizations and local grant makers in order to secure the maximum federal, state, and national foundation dollars for

Community Improvement

About Face Detroit

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Detroit Justice Center

The Detroit Justice Center works alongside communities to create economic opportunities, transform the justice system, and promote equitable and just cities.

Crime & Legal

Detroit Experience Factory

Detroit Experience Factory is a leading resource for both visitors and locals to discover, experience and learn about the people, places and projects around the city of Detroit.

Community Improvement

Detroit Opera

The mission of detroit opera is to be one of the outstanding opera companies in the unted states and, in particular, to serve as a major cultural resource to the city of detroit and the state of michigan.

Arts & Culture

Share Detroit Inc

A community engagement platform offering simple ways for individuals, nonprofits and businesses to come together and strengthen the local community

Philanthropy

Detroit Jews for Justice

Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Living Arts and the most unlike its peers is National Audubon Society Inc. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 12 years old; the field is 12. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%1/133

the rest of the field

17%

1,527/9,093

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.

05the grantee network

69 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

66/69

Grantees still filing

56/69

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,779,173Arts & Culture$787,530Human Services$636,531Youth Development$550,000Health$365,000Community Improvement$285,200Recreation & Sports$262,500

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.

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.

Community Foundation for SoutheastMI72.6× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · The Skillman Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Ford Motor Company Fund · Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inc · The Fred a & Barbara M Erb Family · Hudson-Webber Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Children's Hospital of Michigan

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 organisation WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: JOURNEY TO HEALING.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 832494109 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on JOURNEY TO HEALING, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 74% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Wayne State University Research And?

Find your warmest path to Wayne State University Research And through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

69 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wayne State University Research And?

More from the funding graph

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

69 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Wayne State University Research And?

More from the funding graph