Michigan · Nonprofit
DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,959,177 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($7,500,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $29M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Detroit Public Schools Foundation does
Mission
DPSFs mission is to create and enhance educational opportunities for over 50,000 Detroit Public Schools Community Districts students, families and educators. DPS Foundation was organized to ensure DPS, now DPSCD student and families to reach their full potential. This is achieved by executing fiducary responsibilities over donations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
DPSF oversees 18MM in funding to provide resources and wraparound supportive services to families, academic enrichment and career and college-ready preparedness to students, and training and development programs to teachers.
$5,328,836 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,328,836.
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 2024 to 2025, from $6.2M to $31M (+395%).
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.
94% of DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Kerrie M Mitchell
President CEO
Board chair
Iris A Taylor
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $1.2M.
10 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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: $6.7M from 12 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Skillman Foundation); $167k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Detroit Public Schools Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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 SCHOOLS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 41% · 2019 51% · 2020 49% · 2021 29% · 2022 46% · 2023 46% — 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
36% of DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
96% of DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS 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. $812k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 SCHOOLS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 SCHOOLS 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 SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,959,177 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($7,500,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $22,959,177 in grants to DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $7,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS 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.
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 63 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing