Michigan · Nonprofit
CREATING SPACE DETROIT INC
CREATING SPACE DETROIT INC (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,333 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $31k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $109k
What Creating Space Detroit Inc does
Mission
We plan to change the unused, overgrown parts of the Bagley (and surrounding) neighborhoods into safe, usable spaces for the residents of the area. We are transforming a local empty lot into a multi-generational park and an adjacent bllighted house into a community center! Long term, we plan to convert the overgrown alleys into maintained and well-lit paths for bicycles and pedestrians. Every neighborhood needs a place to come together. Help us create that for the families and neighbors of the Bagley community!
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
BAGLEY COMMUNITY PARK Starting with our purchase of the 2 vacant lots at the corner of Santa Maria and Northlawn in early 2018, we have begun the transformation of what was once a neighborhood dumping ground into a multi-generational park. In May, 2018 we had a work party where we began work on a path and a shelter in the park. Today the path and shelter along with a firepit have been completed. Planter boxes have been built and are placed around the edges of the park and soon, we will be fixing several benches into the ground. Winter is here so our final landscaping will happen when the weather improves in time for next summer. BAGLEY COMMUNITY CENTER In early November, 2018 we received a generous donation of the empty, blighted house adjacent to our park! We are now beginning the hard work to transform the house into a neighborhood asset as a community center. Our plans include neighborhood discussions to get feedback from the community on what neighbors would like to see included in the Community Center. We are also working on developing community partnerships and very importantly, funding. The house is going to require a tremendous amount of work to get into a useable state…
$9,488 spent$27,594 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,488.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $88k to $110k (+25%).
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 CREATING SPACE DETROIT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $28k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 CREATING SPACE DETROIT INC’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
CREATING SPACE DETROIT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
59% 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 CREATING SPACE DETROIT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
59% of CREATING SPACE DETROIT INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $28k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state.
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
CREATING SPACE DETROIT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,237 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,237 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like CREATING SPACE DETROIT INC
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
78% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CREATING SPACE DETROIT INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CREATING SPACE DETROIT INC?
- CREATING SPACE DETROIT INC (Michigan) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,333 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CREATING SPACE DETROIT INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $68,333 in grants to CREATING SPACE DETROIT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATING SPACE DETROIT INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATING SPACE DETROIT INC 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 FY2022 (financials across 2018–2022), and the filings of 3 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