Michigan · Nonprofit
FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT
FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,183,224 to it, the largest being McGregor Fund ($700,200). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,253 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,253 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Ralph L & Winifred E Polk Foundationshared funders
- Say Detroitportfolio match
- Ray Solem Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 33% · 2018 28% · 2019 34% · 2020 37% · 2021 27% · 2022 32% · 2023 41% · 2024 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT’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. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $172k → $205k.
11 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
52% 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 FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 44% · 2019 24% · 2020 28% · 2021 41% · 2022 23% · 2023 39% — 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
33% of FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT'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
88% of FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $510k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 55 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Ralph L & Winifred E Polk Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Say Detroitportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ray Solem Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jenkins Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Somerset Collection Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thrift Shop Association of Ann Arborportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clannad Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elizabeth Allan & Warren Shelden Fundshared fundersMI · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
- Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Deroy Testamentary Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 53 organizations that share your funders
- Fca Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 49 organizations that share your funders
- Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Incshared fundersMI · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.5M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.6M
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 FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT?
- FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,183,224 to it, the largest being McGregor Fund ($700,200). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $3,183,224 in grants to FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT?
- McGregor Fund is the largest funder on record, with $700,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 55funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing