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MIDTOWN DETROIT INC

MIDTOWN DETROIT INC (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,850,736 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($5,560,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$5.4M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$18M
Net assets
$9.7M
10/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 58%
01What it does

What Midtown Detroit Inc does

Mission

A non-profit organization dedicated to redevelop, revitalize and renew the midtown district of detroit as a strong urban community

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Public space improvements and maintenance of major streets, alleys & sidewalks within our midtown district.

    $2,258,457 spent$609,045 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,258,457.

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 ($5.7M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($2.8M)2018 Revenue 89 ($5.1M) Expenses 135 ($4.8M) Net assets 149 ($4.2M)2019 Revenue 102 ($5.9M) Expenses 183 ($6.5M) Net assets 155 ($4.3M)2020 Revenue 109 ($6.3M) Expenses 183 ($6.5M) Net assets 146 ($4.1M)2021 Revenue 86 ($4.9M) Expenses 194 ($6.9M) Net assets 121 ($3.4M)2022 Revenue 113 ($6.5M) Expenses 157 ($5.6M) Net assets 169 ($4.7M)2023 Revenue 151 ($8.7M) Expenses 168 ($5.9M) Net assets 261 ($7.3M)2024 Revenue 94 ($5.4M) Expenses 148 ($5.3M) Net assets 348 ($9.7M)
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Revenue (94)Expenses (148)Net assets (348)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 2021 to 2022, from $6.1M to $9.7M (+59%).

$4.2M
$6.7M
$7.9M
$8.9M
$6.1M
$9.7M
$13M
$13M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 2% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

80% of MIDTOWN DETROIT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.2M
’17
$314k
’18
−$638k
’19
−$226k
’20
−$1.9M
’21
$899k
’22
$2.7M
’23
$129k
’24
15
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.

Board chair

Ned Staebler

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed5052495150504647
Joined·+10+10+6+7+5+16+2
No longer listed·813485201
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $1.8M.

3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $3.8M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan). These are real filings, and they are not money MIDTOWN DETROIT INC raised.

From the IRS filings of MIDTOWN 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

MIDTOWN DETROIT INC 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

31%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 73% · 2019 47% · 2020 26% · 2021 40% · 2022 32% · 2023 27% — 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 MIDTOWN DETROIT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 MIDTOWN DETROIT INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MI
NY
VA
NC
FL

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

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’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k 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

MIDTOWN DETROIT INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve15.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding MIDTOWN DETROIT INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.

Federal$60k
grants $60kcontracts $0
17
22
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$60k

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 MIDTOWN 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

43% of spending goes to programs.

Program 43%Management 57%Fundraising 0%

Governance

44
board members
98%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

65%

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 3 related entities

  • University Cultural Center Association · exempt
  • New Center Foundation · exempt
  • Detroit Innovation District Fund L3c · partnership

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Questions and answers

Who funds MIDTOWN DETROIT INC?
MIDTOWN DETROIT INC (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,850,736 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($5,560,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MIDTOWN DETROIT INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $17,850,736 in grants to MIDTOWN DETROIT INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MIDTOWN DETROIT INC?
THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,560,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MIDTOWN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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