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Detroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation Inc

Detroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($14,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$170k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$14k
Net assets
$2.4M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Detroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation Inc does

Mission

Supporting organization of dada fed. Id 38 0477180 and dada-charity preview fed. Id 38-3435764. The mission of the dada educational foundation is to promote excellence in education through quality programs and leadership. The mission of the dada-charity preview is hold a fundraising event to collect the related proceeds and to make grants to various public charities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promoted excellence in education through quality programs and leadership: Influenced programs related to underage drinking; allowing high school students to compete in creating educational commercials warning younger middle school students about the potential negative effects of underage drinking.

    $332,352 spentof which $21,700 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $332,352.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($176k) Expenses 100 ($225k) Net assets 100 ($15k)2018 Revenue 101 ($179k) Expenses 73 ($165k) Net assets 190 ($28k)2019 Revenue 47 ($83k) Expenses 30 ($67k) Net assets 302 ($45k)2020 Revenue 17 ($30k) Expenses 14 ($30k) Net assets 299 ($44k)2021 Revenue 0 ($500) Expenses 1 ($2k) Net assets 290 ($43k)2022 Revenue 1729 ($3.0M) Expenses 154 ($348k) Net assets 18560 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 126 ($221k) Expenses 266 ($601k) Net assets 15992 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 96 ($170k) Expenses 77 ($173k) Net assets 15969 ($2.4M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (96)Expenses (77)Net assets (15969)Peer revenue range

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 $45k to $2.9M (+6409%).

$21k
$74k
$45k
$46k
$45k
$2.9M
$2.6M
$2.4M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

38% of Detroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$49k
’17
$13k
’18
$17k
’19
−$467
’20
−$1k
’21
$2.7M
’22
−$379k
’23
−$3k
’24
162
months of
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

Sam Klement

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed332
Joined·+0·
No longer listed·0·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $192k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Detroit Auto Dealers Association Charity Preview). These are real filings, and they are not money Detroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation Inc raised.

From the IRS filings of Detroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation 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.

Where its funders are

Detroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Detroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve162.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Detroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds Detroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation Inc?
Detroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation Inc (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $14,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($14,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Detroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $14,000 in grants to Detroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Detroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation Inc?
NATIONAL ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $14,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Detroit Auto Dealers Association Education Foundation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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