Michigan · Nonprofit
Detroit Public Safety Foundation
Detroit Public Safety Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,650,553 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($1,150,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Detroit Public Safety Foundation does
Mission
To promote public safety by enhancing the capabilities of the detroit police department and the detroit fire department by facilitating access to world-class processes and operational tools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Moving Forward programs, which served 115 youth through intensive case management and life-skills interventions, delivering more than 4,500 hours of direct support. Art, Music, Physical education, restorative circles, Singing class and more have been provided since school let out.
$1,685,807 spent45% of program spendingThrough strategic partnerships, youth engagement initiatives, and community-based programming, Live in Peace significantly expanded its presence and impact within our CVI Zone. The organization strengthened school-based mentoring services across four Detroit schools, launched youth sports and leadership programs, increased access to critical community resources, and provided positive outlets for young people through education, recreation, and workforce development opportunities. Live in Peace also enhanced its organizational capacity through new equipment and transportation resources, while achieving a 36.59% reduction in its CVI score and earning a CVI Performance Grant in recognition of its measurable community violence intervention outcomes. Established and expanded school-based mentoring and violence prevention initiatives
$1,307,583 spent35% of program spendingA major accomplishment during the reporting period was the successful expansion of MHCR operations to full 24/7 crisis response coverage. The grant-funded Project Coordinator played a key role in supporting recruitment, onboarding, implementation activities, and cross-agency collaboration, contributing to the hiring of additional Behavioral Health Specialists (BHS) and Mental Health Communication Coordinators (MHCCs). These staffing investments increased the Citys capacity to provide around-the-clock behavioral health support.
$735,639 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,729,029.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $2.1M (+80%).
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: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Detroit Public Safety Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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.
Chief executive
Patti Kukula
Executive Director
Board chair
Anne Mervenne
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $42k → $1.4M.
6 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Public Safety Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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 Public Safety Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
65% 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 Public Safety Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 36% · 2019 40% · 2020 25% · 2021 22% · 2022 36% · 2023 54% — 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
55% of Detroit Public Safety Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
81% of Detroit Public Safety Foundation's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M 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 Public Safety Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Detroit Public Safety Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $744k on record.
- Department of Justice$744k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Detroit Public Safety Foundation
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 Public Safety Foundation: 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 Public Safety Foundation?
- Detroit Public Safety Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,650,553 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($1,150,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Detroit Public Safety Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $4,650,553 in grants to Detroit Public Safety Foundation, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Detroit Public Safety Foundation?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Detroit Public Safety Foundation 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 45 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