Michigan · Nonprofit
Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center
Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,375,611 to it, the largest being FORD PHILANTHROPY ($1,115,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $830k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $169k
What Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center does
Mission
Provide low-cost legal services to immigrants and refugees seeking to make a home in the city of Detroit. Offer low-cost housing to immigrants and refugees who have difficulty finding long-term residency in the city of Detroit. Assist businesses owned by Detroit residents.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
2024 Accomplishments: 1. 8,648 client appointments at 225 daily clinic sessions--averaged 38.5 clients at each clinic. 2. Completed and filed 1,152 asylum applications that provided protection to 6,912 individuals. 3. Completed and filed 864 employment authorization documents (712 approved and issued) that provided income for hundreds of local families. 4. Attended 162 hearings at Immigration Court--47 cases dismissed, 28 granted asylum. Another 32 individuals were granted asylum by USCIS. 5. Attended 58 hearings at various local and state courts that protected individuals from false claims, saw 17 guardians appointed, and others won the ability to remain in their homes. 6. Maintained an active docket of 47 probate cases in Oakland and Wayne counties that allowed 16 families to obtain title to heirs property and supplied legal guardians for 25 at-risk persons. 7. Assisted 39 minors with their asylum and Special Immigrant Juvenile visas. 8. Filed visa petitions for 89 persons, and filed 125 adjustment of status applications (green cards) 9. Filed 78 family reunification petitions for refugees and asylees, with 11 family members approved to enter the U.S. 10. Filed 23 visa…
$633,804 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $633,804.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $90k to $211k (+135%).
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: 2023 21% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Kevin Piecuch
Executive Director
Board chair
Tamara York Cook
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $40k → $186k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 78% · 2022 65% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% 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
100% of Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center
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
82% 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 Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center: 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 Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center?
- Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,375,611 to it, the largest being FORD PHILANTHROPY ($1,115,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,375,611 in grants to Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center?
- FORD PHILANTHROPY is the largest funder on record, with $1,115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Southwest Detroit Immigrant and Refugee Center 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 10 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