Michigan · Nonprofit
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.
Against its field
MIDTOWN DETROIT INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,197 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,197 community improvement 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.
- Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inclocalportfolio match
- Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Wayne State University Research and Technology Park in the City of Detroitlocalportfolio 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: 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).
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
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
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inclocalportfolio matchMI · funds 263 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchMI · funds 100 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Wayne State University Research and Technology Park in the City of Detroitlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 122 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Detroit Future Citylocalportfolio matchMI · funds 38 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Prosperus Detroit Micro Lendinglocalportfolio matchMI · funds 49 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Culturesourceshared funderslocalMI · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 76 organizations near you
- Community Development Advocates of Detroitportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Orsa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elevate Energyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ralph L & Winifred E Polk Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- The Jamie & Denise Jacob Family Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Incshared fundersMI · backs 72 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 MIDTOWN DETROIT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- 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
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
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- University Cultural Center Association · exempt
- New Center Foundation · exempt
- Detroit Innovation District Fund L3c · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDTOWN DETROIT INC: 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 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 18funders 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