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Wayne State University Research and Technology Park in the City of Detroit

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$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.2MHuman Services$945kCommunity Improvement$792kYouth Development$592kHousing & Shelter$445kHealth$400kCivil Rights$250kFood & Nutrition$220kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $1,300,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,840,720 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $540,720 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 $10k21 grants · $159k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $126k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $1.0M
$8,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUGAR LAW CENTER FOR ECONOMIC & SOCIAL JUSTICE$150,000
DETROIT HORSE POWER$150,000
CLASS ACT DETROIT$150,000
A GIRL LIKE ME INC$150,000
FREEDOM HOUSE$150,000
JEFFERSON CHALMERS FARMERS MARKET$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
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 (FY20–24, $687k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT (IIMD): $50k → 21%HANNAN CENTER: $35k → 21%A GIRL LIKE ME INC: $150k → 21%THE BMO PROGRAM: $65k → 21%SOUTHWEST ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS: $20k → 21%FREEDOM HOUSE: $150k → 21%URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC: $42k → 21%FREEDOM HOUSE: $35k → 21%URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES INC (UNI): $20k → 21%DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $26k → 21%DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE (PAL): $24k → 21%DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $20k → 21%WE THE PEOPLE OF DETROIT: $50k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
OR
OH
CA
DE
NC
DC
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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 18 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
94

Total granted

$1.8M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+21%

Still filing today

78%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $822k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentHousing & 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

  • BRILLIANT DETROIT
    2× · 2022–2023 · $300k · revenue +16%
  • AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN MI INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +14%
  • FH
    FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT
    2× · 2022–2024 · $185k · revenue +156%

Funded once

  • BP
    Bailey Park Project
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -3%
  • DS
    DETROIT SOUND CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -33% · 33% of their budget
  • HERITAGE WORKS
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -45% · 32% of their budget
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
The Greening of Detroit

The greening of detroit's mission is the sustainable growth of a healthy urban community through trees, green spaces, healthy living, education, training and job opportunities.

Environment
2
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
3
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 the city Detroit.

Community Improvement
4
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
5
The Detroit Equity Report Inc

To promote equality and inclusion in society.

Employment
6
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
7
Detroit Food Policy Council

The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…

Food & Nutrition
8
Community Education Commission

CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.

Education
9
Detroit Economic Growth Corporation

Promotion of activities to spur economic growth and revitalization in the city of detroit

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10
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
11
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
12
Detroit Parks Coalition

The detroit parks coalition ("the coalition") is an alliance of community members and parks leaders working to support healthy, equitable, and vibrant parks in detroit. the coalition develops and facilitates city-wide parks programming,…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Detroit Achievement Academy Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Highland Park Urban Development Initiative. 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

76 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. 76 of the 140 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/76
Grantees still filing
51/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLASS ACT DETROIT: $215,000 · OtherCLASS ACT DETROITJEFFERSON CHALMERS FARMERS MARKET: $150,000 · OtherJEFFERSON CHALMERS FARMERS MARKETTHE MAURICE & JANE SUGAR LAW CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: $150,000 · OtherTHE MAURICE & JANE SUGAR LAW CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND …TEMATE INSTITUTE FOR BLACK DANCE AND CULTURE LLC: $90,450 · OtherDETROIT HIVES INC: $92,000 · Other+95 more: $1,958,398 · Other+95 moreDETROIT SOUND CONSERVANCY: $150,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SOUND CO…BULK SPACE: $150,000 · Arts & CultureBULK SPACEHERITAGE WORKS: $150,000 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE WORKSGarage Cultural: $115,000 · Arts & CultureGarage CulturalTHE ARTS LEAGUE OF MICHIGAN: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS LEAGUE …ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $47,500 · Arts & CultureALLIED MEDIA PRO…MATRIX THEATRE COMPANY: $35,000 · Arts & CultureLiving Arts: $35,000 · Arts & CultureHAI FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTIC IMPACT: $35,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $25,030 · Arts & CultureFREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT: $185,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM HOUSE…A GIRL LIKE ME INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesA GIRL LIKE M…DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $70,000 · Human ServicesDETROIT POLIC…The Better Men Outreach Program: $65,000 · Human ServicesThe Better Me…Urban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc: $61,531 · Human ServicesUrban Neighbo…We the People of Detroit: $50,000 · Human ServicesWe the People…THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE INTERNATI…HANNAN CENTER: $35,000 · Human Services+1 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesBRILLIANT DETROIT: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRILLIANT D…DETROIT HORSE POWER: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentDETROIT HOR…The Konnection: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Konnect…AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN MI INC: $200,000 · HealthJourney To Healing Inc: $115,000 · HealthAVALON HEALING CENTER: $50,000 · HealthWOMEN OF BANGLATOWN: $62,000 · Community ImprovementBUILD INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Community ImprovementCONGRESS OF COMMUNITIES: $43,000 · Community ImprovementFriends of Parkside: $35,000 · Community ImprovementCentral United Methodist Church of Detroit Community Development Corp: $35,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUNITY BASED ENTERPRISE: $33,325 · Community ImprovementDETROIT COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC: $31,000 · Community ImprovementHIGHLAND PARK URBAN DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $20,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $9,200 · Community ImprovementBailey Park Project: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM: $70,000 · Recreation & SportsPEOPLE FOR PALMER PARK: $35,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $7,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,655,848Arts & Culture$827,530Human Services$686,531Youth Development$550,000Health$365,000Community Improvement$318,525Recreation & Sports$262,500

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 budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $300,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN MI INC: $200,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT: $185,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetBailey Park Project: $150,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetDETROIT SOUND CONSERVANCY: $150,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetDETROIT HORSE POWER: $150,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTHE MAURICE & JANE SUGAR LAW CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: $150,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetBULK SPACE: $150,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetA GIRL LIKE ME INC: $150,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetHERITAGE WORKS: $150,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetJourney To Healing Inc: $115,000 over 2y, 74% of budgetGarage Cultural: $115,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetThe Konnection: $100,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetDETROIT HIVES INC: $92,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetTEMATE INSTITUTE FOR BLACK DANCE AND CULTURE LLC: $90,450 over 1y, 55% of budgetSOULARDARITY: $72,742 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetDOWNTOWN BOXING GYM YOUTH PROGRAM: $70,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetDETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $70,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJourni Incorporated: $67,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetThe Better Men Outreach Program: $65,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetWOMEN OF BANGLATOWN: $62,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetUrban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc: $61,531 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CHALDEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW DETROIT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCOTS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL VETERAN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBUILD INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWe the People of Detroit: $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTHE ARTS LEAGUE OF MICHIGAN: $50,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE YUNION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAVALON HEALING CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY CENTER OF MICHIGAN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC: $47,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONGRESS OF COMMUNITIES: $43,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetFamily Assistance for Renaissance Men: $43,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGIVE MERIT INC: $36,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMATRIX THEATRE COMPANY: $35,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFriends of Parkside: $35,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCHANDLER PARK CONSERVANCY: $35,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetO Hair Park Community Association: $35,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetCommunities First Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCentral United Methodist Church of Detroit Community Development Corp: $35,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLATIN AMERICANS FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $35,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetEASTERN MARKET CORPORATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLiving Arts: $35,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFriends of Rouge Park: $35,000 over 1y, 36% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …United Way for Southe…The Skillman Foundati…The Kresge FoundationDTE Energy FoundationFord PhilanthropyDetroit Regional Cham…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…The Fred & Barbara Er…Wayne-Metropolitan Co…McGregor FundChildren's Hospital o…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI72.6× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Skillman Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc · McGregor Fund · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation

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 State University Research and Technology Park in the City of Detroit funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wayne State University Research and Technology Park in the City of Detroit. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
19report 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 140 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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