Michigan · Nonprofit
KEEP GROWING DETROIT
KEEP GROWING DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,817,772 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,157,642). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Keep Growing Detroit does
Mission
Keep Growing Detroit exists to promote a food sovereign city where the majority of fruits and vegetables detroiters consume are grown by residents within the city's limits.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Garden development & garden resource program the garden resource program provides high-quality seeds, sustainably grown vegetable transplants, and other garden resources to families, community, school, and market gardens in 2024 reaching almost 25,000 residents in detroit, hamtrack, and highland park michigan.
$473,584 spent$53,617 earned by the program22% of program spendingEducation & capacity building Keep Growing Detroit's educational programs provide hundreds of educational opportunities and one-on-one technical assistance sessions to the gardeners and farmers served in areas ranging from new garden development and basic gardening to farm business planning, season extension, and marketing produce. In 2024, there were 38 classes held reaching 759 individuals across the city.
$285,010 spent$18,253 earned by the program13% of program spendingFarm & market operations Keep Growing Detroit has a farm in downtown detroit where the organization grows plants, hosts service projects and educational events, and grows produce for market and donation to local emergency food providers. Our grown in detroit program is based at the kgd farm. This program supported dozens of growers in gaining access to farmers' markets and other sales outlets. Together these growers contributed over 20,000 pounds of fresh, locally-grown produce to detroit's food system.
$408,097 spent$144,498 earned by the program19% of program spendingDetroit black farmer land fund dbflf has mission to rebuild inter-generational land ownership for black farmers in detroit. This fund is now administered by detroit black community food security network. Keep Growing Detroit transfered all accumulated assets to them in 2024.
$945,221 spentof which $652,137 as grants45% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,111,912.
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 $491k to $1.7M (+251%).
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.
91% of KEEP GROWING DETROIT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Darius Hardrick
Co-chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $246k → $945k.
12 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 KEEP GROWING 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
KEEP GROWING DETROIT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
33% 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 KEEP GROWING DETROIT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 55% · 2019 47% · 2020 29% · 2021 26% · 2022 34% · 2023 30% — 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
41% of KEEP GROWING DETROIT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
76% of KEEP GROWING 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. $792k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
KEEP GROWING DETROIT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,206 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding KEEP GROWING DETROIT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $449k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$449k
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 KEEP GROWING DETROIT
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 KEEP GROWING 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KEEP GROWING DETROIT?
- KEEP GROWING DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,817,772 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,157,642). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KEEP GROWING DETROIT have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $5,817,772 in grants to KEEP GROWING DETROIT, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KEEP GROWING DETROIT?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,157,642 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KEEP GROWING 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 55 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