Michigan · Nonprofit
DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND
DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND (Michigan) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,936,082 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($5,001,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Detroit Children's Fund does
Mission
The mission of the Detroit Children's Fund is to make high-potential investments to expand successful schools, greatly improve lower performing schools, and discover and develop talented educators so that every child in detroit has the opportunity to receive an excellent education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Multiple components that together will work to address students needs for vital resources essential to their ability to learn and thrive. The goal is to improve the learning outcomes at new paradigm glazer academy and new paradigm college prep by addressing the needs of the whole student. (epic)
$2,617,884 spentof which $1,945,551 as grants56% of program spendingSupport for new leaders for academic years 2024-2026,the dpscd district executive instructional leaders, school principal supervisors, I.e., assistant superintendents, and school principals are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to effectively coach and support data-driven leadership practices that will improve the quality of instruction offered to students in classrooms so they achieve aggressive academic gains in ela and math.
$1,500,000 spentof which $1,500,000 as grants32% of program spendingTeacher retention goal for the 2024-2025 school year is to retain 90% of effective or highly effective teachers. By providing fall and spring retention bonuses, aims to retain, motivate and keep those teachers who are effective and committed. The provision of bonuses to school staff can have a positive impact on talent retention rates, such as increasing staff satisfaction and morale, stronger school climate and culture, enhanced professionalism, and improved student outcomes.
$187,750 spentof which $187,750 as grants4% of program spendingOther program services
$229,345 spent5% of program spendingPersonal laptops for a total of 180 scholars for the academic year 23-24 and 24-25 and a senior defense project course which integrates the college application process and the college bound scholars curriculum.
$135,211 spentof which $135,211 as grants3% of program spendingCompact program work with college-going experts and the city's leading charter high schools, will aim to significantly transform graduation rates, college persistence rates and college graduation rates for over 2,000 students each year in detroit. By working together and achieving significantly improved outcomes, these four charters can set a new "bar" for quality for schools across the city and serve as exemplars for schools that want to learn how to improve their outcomes more quickly.
$10,750 spentof which $10,750 as grants0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,680,940.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.4M to $7.2M (+64%).
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.
110% of DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Kc Crain
Board chair, director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $342k → $1.3M.
6 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.1M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Skillman Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 CHILDREN'S FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 CHILDREN'S FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 46% · 2019 35% · 2020 42% · 2021 36% · 2022 71% · 2023 76% — 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
33% of DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
51% of DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND'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 $5.4M that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 CHILDREN'S FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
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 DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND: 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 DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND?
- DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND (Michigan) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,936,082 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($5,001,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $10,936,082 in grants to DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,001,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DETROIT CHILDREN'S FUND 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 35 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