Michigan · Nonprofit
Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network
Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network (Michigan) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,896,772 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,110,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $8.9M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network does
Mission
DBCFSN works to build self-reliance and food security in Detroits black community by influencing public policy promoting urban agriculture, promoting healthy eating and encouraging youth to pursue careers in food related fields.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our program activities included: the D-Town Farm Program, a seven-acre organic farm located in the City of Detroits Rouge Park, where we grow more than 30 different fruits, vegetables, and herbs that are sold at farmers markets and to wholesale customers. The farm features three hoop houses for extended-season growing, beekeeping, large-scale composting, farm tours, and an annual harvest festival. The Food Warriors Youth Development Program engages young Detroiters in experiences that teach them about food security and food justice, as well as the value of gardening, healthy eating, and exercise. The Detroit Food Commons is in the final stages of construction and is a project that will house the Detroit Peoples Food Co-op, a full-service, cooperatively owned grocery store that will be located in Detroits North End.
$1,164,803 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,164,803.
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.
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 $1.9M to $5.0M (+168%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 19% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $75k → $1.2M.
12 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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
Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
62% 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 Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 81% · 2019 52% · 2020 40% · 2021 30% · 2022 33% · 2023 26% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
60% of Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network
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
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network?
- Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network (Michigan) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,896,772 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,110,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $8,896,772 in grants to Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 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