Michigan · Nonprofit
DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION
DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,819,000 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($3,000,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.8M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $9.8M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Detroit Regional Partnership Foundation does
Mission
The drpf is an economic development organization. It seeks to market the 11-county southeast michigan region to both domestic and global investors with the goal of attracting new business, job opportunities and investment to southeast michigan.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Business development: 2024 marked the 5-year anniversary of drpf's creation. In this short time, drpf has surged toward its 10-year goals for the region, attracting 121 projects that created an estimated $9.4 billion in investment and more than 36,500 jobs with an average wage of $68,819 per year. In its first five years of operations, the organization is already nearing its 2030 goals of attracting 50,000 new jobs and $10 billion in new investment.
$1,880,420 spent21% of program spendingSpecial projects: the detroit region is one of the nation's most innovative metro areas. It also possesses the greatest concentration of mobility assets and continues to be our nation's best bet to accelerate economic prosperity and growth for both michigan and the united states. The drpf led a coalition of regional partners and successfully made that case to the us economic development administration as part of its build back better regional challenge (bbbrc). Together, the drpf-led coalition secured a phase 1 planning grant, as well as a significant phase 2 grant for the global epicenter of mobility (gem) initiative. This initiative will invest in creating a smart, secure, sustainable and inclusive advanced mobility industry in the detroit region. Throughout 2024 phase 2 activities included accelerated advancement of vipby drp site readiness work and advanced research initiatives surrounding mobility initiatives in the detroit region.
$5,529,970 spent$1,362,518 earned by the program61% of program spendingMarketing: the drpf's marketing program shares the region's story across video, digital, and social media platforms throughout the year. It continues to promote the detroit region as a world-class business location, generate awareness with economic development prospects and leverage partners, stakeholders and advocates to share key information and messaging about the region.
$975,330 spent11% of program spendingBusiness intelligence and talent solutions: drpf's business intelligence program specializes in helping companies understand the competitive advantages of southeast michigan through verified data and statistics. Our team has compiled information about each community and industry within the region, so prospects and partners alike have access to the data they need to make informed decisions. The business intelligence team provides the region with customized data and analytics reports including information on workforce availability, the cost of doing business, talent affordability, industry business cases, our customer and supplier ecosystem, and more. Drpf's talent solutions program supports prospective and newly entered businesses in navigating the detroit region's large and diverse workforce with concrete data and custom talent solutions. It provides in-depth information on our regional demographics, workforce profile, and talent pipeline to ensure that our community meets specific project needs. It also connects projects with local companies and hr professionals to learn about southeast michigan's workforce directly from employers in their industry, and connects companies with a…
$717,611 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,103,331.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $5.1M to $8.3M (+63%).
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: 2019 5% · 2020 6% · 2021 4% · 2022 11% · 2023 25% · 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Maureen Krauss
President & CEO
Board chair
Gerry Anderson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $250k → $2.0M.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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: $6.3M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan). These are real filings, and they are not money DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION’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 REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 33% · 2022 32% · 2023 51% — 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
63% of DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 67% 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
97% of DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP 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. $810k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.1M on record.
- Department of Commerce$6.1M
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 REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 2 related entities
- Detroit Regional Partnership · exempt
- Southeast Michigan Grants Coalition · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP 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 REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION?
- DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,819,000 to it, the largest being THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION ($3,000,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $9,819,000 in grants to DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION?
- THE RALPH C WILSON JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 15 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