Michigan · Nonprofit
DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED
DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED (Michigan) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,039,392 to it, the largest being Detroit Auto Dealers Association Charity Preview ($1,368,116). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Detroit Police Athletic League Incorporated does
Mission
Detroit pal, working in partnership with the police department and community volunteers, has the mission to help youth find their greatness through athletic programs and youth enrichment opportunities. The overarching goal of detroit pal is to help provide young people with the support and tools necessary for them to achieve their highest potential as adults. Detroit pal harnesses the powerful draw of sports participation to engage children in positive youth development experiences while teaching our great model focusing on goalsetting, resilience, embracing a healthy lifestyle, accountability, and teamwork. Detroit pal has been serving youth for over 50 years as a trusted source that adds value to the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Boys & girls school basketball is a program pal has run for over 20 years. We work directly with schools throughout the detroit and greater detroit area to organize, administer, and operate middle school and elementary basketball leagues for student-athletes at a variety of charter, public, and private schools.during our 2024 season, we had 154 teams representing 1655 youth and 225 volunteers. Teams were involved in the program an average of 10 hours per week for a 12-week program that teaches life lessons through sports including goalsetting, resilience, embracing health, and accountability. Our league is successful because we bring together a variety of different schools from various regions of the city to work together in one league focused on competing, bringing out the best in others, and development both on the court and off the court.
$116,435 spent$301,618 earned by the program9% of program spendingDetroit pal has been running diamond sports leagues for more than 50 years. Diamond sports involves baseball, softball, and the t-ball program. Our fall 2024 fall ball league, was created to develop outdoor play during the pandemic and had 8 teams representing 114 youth and 16 volunteers. The combined number for all diamond sports was 104 teams representing 1405 youth and 208 volunteers. The diamond sports league continues to grow since the pandemic. The teams were involved in the program an average of 8 hours per week for a 10-week program that taught life lessons through sports including goalsetting, resilience, embracing health, and accountability. Our league is successful because we were able to run sports in a safe, positive way. Many new youth get involved while many returning player continue their passion for the game and their skill development. We were able to host many games at the corner ballpark, the location of the old tiger stadium off of michigan near trumbull.
$88,500 spent7% of program spendingFootball is a program pal has run for many years in conjunction with myfl. Our football and cheer programs have existed for more than 50 years and continues to be a feeder system for sports into our school programs. We work directly with football nonprofit organizations throughout the detroit and greater detroit area to organize, administer, and operate middle school and elementary football programs for student-athletes. Practices and games are programmed at a variety of public fields throughout the season. We had 12 football organizations for the 2024 season. Each organization providing a variety of 5 football teams at several age levels. That totaled over 80 football and cheer teams with 1943 youth and over 500 volunteers. Teams were involved in the program an average of 8 hours per week for a 12-week program that taught life lessons through sports including goalsetting, resilience, embracing health, and accountability.
$170,746 spent14% of program spendingWe continue to grow our littles programs which in 2024 included mighty cheer, little putters, tiny tennis, little sluggers, little blitzers, little hoopers, and little lions flag football. These programs provide youth with an introduction to sports so they can sample and indentify the future sports they want to participate in. These introductory programs allowed more than 650 young participants to play, learn about the sport and learn the importance of team work and sportmanship. Other sports such as volleyball, soccer, hockey, and track remained strong throughout the year.
$882,449 spent70% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,258,130.
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 2018 to 2019, from $19M to $17M (−9%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 11% · 2021 5% · 2022 26% · 2023 10% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Frederick Hunter
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 23 funders, grant income fell $2.5M → $1.7M.
11 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $4.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Detroit Pal Fundraising Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED raised.
From the IRS filings of DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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 POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
48% 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 POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 31% · 2019 28% · 2020 13% · 2021 19% · 2022 30% · 2023 24% — growing more concentrated.
“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
42% of DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
75% of DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $565k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED
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
28% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Detroit Pal Fundraising Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED?
- DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED (Michigan) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,039,392 to it, the largest being Detroit Auto Dealers Association Charity Preview ($1,368,116). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $11,039,392 in grants to DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED?
- Detroit Auto Dealers Association Charity Preview is the largest funder on record, with $1,368,116 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED 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 60 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