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DEVELOP DETROIT INC

DEVELOP DETROIT INC (Michigan) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,464,517 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($7,050,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.5M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$19M
Net assets
$4.8M
12/23 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Develop Detroit Inc does

Mission

Develop detroit, inc. Is a nonprofit community development firm focused on providing affordable and mixed income housing, as well as strategic economic and commercial development that will help stabilize and transform disinvested neighborhoods. Ddi renovates and redevelops properties into high quality, inclusive housing that is well-designed and accessible to a broad range of detroiters. The firm develops across a wide range of real estate project types, including single-family rehabilitation and infill and multi- family preservation.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Real estate development - we imagine, design and build beautiful housing. We create mixed-income communities and single-family homes across detroit for the full range of detroiters. Our work is an integrated approach to stabilizing and growing neighborhoods decimated by the recent housing crisis.

    $3,533,978 spent$2,280,413 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,533,978.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($5.3M)2018 Revenue 144 ($3.2M) Expenses 142 ($2.9M) Net assets 106 ($5.6M)2019 Revenue 11 ($236k) Expenses 129 ($2.6M) Net assets 61 ($3.3M)2020 Revenue 347 ($7.6M) Expenses 221 ($4.5M) Net assets 121 ($6.4M)2021 Revenue 221 ($4.9M) Expenses 241 ($4.9M) Net assets 120 ($6.4M)2022 Revenue 229 ($5.0M) Expenses 191 ($3.9M) Net assets 75 ($4.0M)2023 Revenue 264 ($5.8M) Expenses 202 ($4.1M) Net assets 108 ($5.8M)2024 Revenue 231 ($5.1M) Expenses 230 ($4.7M) Net assets 85 ($4.6M)2025 Revenue 249 ($5.5M) Expenses 223 ($4.5M) Net assets 90 ($4.8M)
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Revenue (249)Expenses (223)Net assets (90)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $9.5M to $22M (+132%).

$9.5M
$22M
$21M
$25M
$26M
$26M
$28M
$28M
$23M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 15% · 2021 19% · 2022 2% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

58% of DEVELOP DETROIT INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$180k
’17
$298k
’18
−$2.4M
’19
$3.2M
’20
−$10k
’21
$1.2M
’22
$1.7M
’23
$437k
’24
$976k
’25
3.1
months of
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

Sonya Mays

President & CEO

Board chair

Kate Kohn-Parrott

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed91313141219161814
Joined·+4+1+2+0+8+1+2+0
No longer listed·01121404
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $2.9M.

3 of 23 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.

From the IRS filings of DEVELOP DETROIT INC’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

DEVELOP DETROIT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% 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

36%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 57% · 2019 36% · 2020 25% · 2021 66% · 2022 30% · 2023 26% — 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

69% of DEVELOP DETROIT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

DEVELOP DETROIT INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 11 states in all.

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DEVELOP DETROIT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like DEVELOP DETROIT INC

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 15%Fundraising 6%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

43%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Part of a family of 19 related entities

  • Shelborne Square Apartments Limited Dividend Housing Association LLC · disregarded
  • Dev Detroit Shelborne Square LLC · disregarded
  • Ddi Renaissance Limited Dividend Housing Association LLC · disregarded
  • CDC Dev Detroit LLC · disregarded
  • Islandview Townhomes LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds DEVELOP DETROIT INC?
DEVELOP DETROIT INC (Michigan) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,464,517 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($7,050,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DEVELOP DETROIT INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $19,464,517 in grants to DEVELOP DETROIT INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DEVELOP DETROIT INC?
THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DEVELOP DETROIT INC 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 23 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