Michigan · Nonprofit
Community Treehouse Center Detroit
Community Treehouse Center Detroit (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $443,980 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($225,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $444k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Community Treehouse Center Detroit does
Mission
To improve the economic and social well-being of low-income Detroiters.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2022 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
A new program service was added this year: Mental Health & 7 Mile House.The objectives of this new program service include promoting mental health and counseling services, along with the use of the newly donated 7 Mile House (named because of its location at 5000 E 7 Mile Rd, Detroit, MI 48234). The 7 Mile House will be used for mental health counseling, caregiver programs, and other valuable endeavors.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
MENTAL HEALTH - The objectives include promoting mental health and counseling services for mental health counseling, caregiver programs, and other valuable endeavors.Occupancy 75,116Supplies 7,226Utilities 14,147Website 167Mgmt 3,035Office expenses 97Licenses & Permits 0Meetings 361Miscellaneous 229Program costs 244Travel & Vehicle 1,453 -------Total 102,075
$102,075 spent55% of program spendingENTREPRENEURSHIP & JOB TRAINING - Fostering the growth and potential of small businesses and individuals with solar workforce development training, education, and encouragementOccupancy 26,083Supplies 1,138Website 167Mgmt 3,035Outside services 5,510Office expenses 97Event food 485Fuel 370Licenses & Permits 0Meetings 171Miscellaneous 228Program costs 2,344Travel & Vehicle 1,453 -------Total 41,081 GREENING & GROWING - Community gardens, gardening education, and knowledge and applications of solar power.Professional Design costs 7,500Occupancy 2,625Gardening Supplies 9,665Tools 1,643Website 167Mgmt 3,035Office expenses 97Event food 426Fuel 776Meetings 230Miscellaneous 228Program costs 1,180Travel & Vehicle 2,153 -------Total 29,725
$29,725 spent16% of program spendingFINANCIAL LITERACY TRAINING - Educating individuals across all age groups on saving, investing, trading, managing debt, and creating & implementing financial plans. This is essential to achieving diverse financial objectives.Marketing & Promotion 2,500Education 597Supplies 906Website 167Mgmt 3,035Office expenses 97Event food 175Fuel 152Meetings 111Miscellaneous 229Program costs 2,344Travel & Vehicle 1,453 -------Total 11,767
$11,767 spent6% of program spendingLOW-INCOME DETROITERS - Treehouse design, creation, and maintenance, along with its associated costs are included, plus other activities that benefit the neighborhood and its residents, such as community events, booking giveaways, garage giveaways, yoga, and other activities not already covered by existing programs.
$42,789 spent23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $186,356.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $139k to $1.9M (+1290%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of Community Treehouse Center Detroit’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Tammy A Black
CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $25k → $85k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Community Treehouse Center Detroit’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Community Treehouse Center Detroit leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
47% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Community Treehouse Center Detroit.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 83% · 2023 59% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Community Treehouse Center Detroit draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Community Treehouse Center Detroit runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,790 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,790 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Government funding Community Treehouse Center Detroit receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Community Treehouse Center Detroit
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Cecs LLC · disregarded
- Global Treehouse Initiative 2 LLC · disregarded
- Creative Empowerment Counseling Svc · corp_trust
- Worldwide Management Services Corp · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Community Treehouse Center Detroit?
- Community Treehouse Center Detroit (Michigan) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $443,980 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($225,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Community Treehouse Center Detroit have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $443,980 in grants to Community Treehouse Center Detroit, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Treehouse Center Detroit?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Treehouse Center Detroit find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing