Michigan · Nonprofit
DETROIT IS DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUP
DETROIT IS DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUP (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,500 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DETROIT IS DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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
- Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Prosperus Detroit Micro Lendinglocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of DETROIT IS DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of DETROIT IS DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUP’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 IS DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
89% of DETROIT IS DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUP's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Detroit Economic Growth Associationlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 961 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchMI · funds 96 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Prosperus Detroit Micro Lendinglocalportfolio matchMI · funds 49 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Detroit Future Citylocalportfolio matchMI · funds 38 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Invest Detroit Foundationlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 97 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Jamie & Denise Jacob Family Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · funds 46 organizations near you
- David and Kiana Barfield Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Patrice K Aaron Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St John Providenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Detroit Hispanic Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equity in the Arts Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peck Foundation Incportfolio 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 IS DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUP
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
45% 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 IS DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUP: 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 IS DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUP?
- DETROIT IS DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUP (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,500 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DETROIT IS DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $47,500 in grants to DETROIT IS DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUP.
- Who is the largest funder of DETROIT IS DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUP?
- THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DETROIT IS DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUP 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 2024–2025), 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