Michigan · Nonprofit
DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ORANIZING
DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ORANIZING (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $362,500 to it, the largest being The Ford Foundation ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ORANIZING runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,796 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,796 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Detroit Economic Growth Associationlocalportfolio match
- Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inclocalportfolio match
- Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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 DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ORANIZING’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% 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
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ORANIZING’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
DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ORANIZING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ORANIZING draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 3 states in all.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Detroit Economic Growth Associationlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 977 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inclocalportfolio matchMI · funds 263 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchMI · funds 100 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Invest Detroit Foundationlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 122 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Jamie & Denise Jacob Family Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- The Shiffman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Voicesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bvm Capacity Building Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan League of Conservation Voters Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Right to the City Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Black Voters Matter Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gamaliel Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ORANIZING
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ORANIZING: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ORANIZING?
- DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ORANIZING (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $362,500 to it, the largest being The Ford Foundation ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ORANIZING have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $362,500 in grants to DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ORANIZING, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ORANIZING?
- The Ford Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DETROIT INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND ORANIZING 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing