Michigan · Nonprofit
THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER DETROIT
THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,836 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($25,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $347k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $120k
- Net assets
- $-240343
What The Alliance for a Safer Greater Detroit does
Mission
Crime stoppers' mission is to empower people to make their neighborhoods, schools and businesses safer through the anonymous reporting of criminal perpetrators. Crime stoppers raises the awareness of crimes in the seven county region of southeastern michigan by partnering with media, grass roots organizations, victims' families, schools, neighborhoods, and businesses, allowing citizens to get involved against crime in a safe manner. This is done through the crime stoppers' management of an anonymous tip line.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Crime communications - this program service sends out the crime stoppers message to the public. This program runs the press conferences that are shown on local tv news broadcasts. This program posts the advertising and billboards that communicate the crime stoppers message. This program maintains the crime stoppers website and social media connections that send out the crime stoppers message and encourages citizens to use the anonymous tip line.
$164,079 spent43% of program spendingLaw enforcement - this program provides the anonymous tip line citizens can use to report crimes. This program takes the tips forwarded from the call center and relays them to the appropriate police departments in the seven counties served by crime stoppers. This program handles the calls made inquiring about rewards to be paid on successful tips. This program is headed by a retired law enforcement officer that also visits local police departments to encourage better communications and tip sharing. This program also gives talks to citizen groups to encourage them to be safer and avoid scams.
$67,716 spent18% of program spendingSatellite offices - this program provides a physical presence in the counties served by crime stoppers. This often involves office space in local police departments where our representative can have easy and direct contact with local police departments. This provided citizens an easy way to reach crime stoppers in their community and learn more about the services provided. This also provides an easier way for communications on tips received for that community.
$38,223 spent10% of program spendingPrison program - this program goes to prisons and communicates the crime stoppers message. Prisoners are encouraged to call in when they hear of information regarding crimes. Visits are made regularly with new messages that play on monitors in the prisons. Telephones are set up in the prisons that allow prisoners to call crime stoppers in a secure manner. Faith based program - crime stoppers has a faith based outreach program which takes the crime stoppers message to the churches and church groups. Crime stoppers provides speakers to church and community meetings to share the crime stoppers message of safety in the community. Anonymous tip program - crime stoppers has a call center and rewards program which incurs the expenses of the call center services and the rewards paid out for successful tips. The remote call center provides a safe and anonymous way for a potential tipster to call in with information of a local crime, and to receive a reward if their tip is used in solving the crime and leading to an arrest.
$112,561 spent29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $382,579.
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 2018 to 2019, from $504k to $252k (−50%).
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.
122% of THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER DETROIT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Lou Schmidt Jr
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $1k → $46k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER DETROIT’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
THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER DETROIT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
68% 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 THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER DETROIT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 64% · 2021 66% · 2022 86% · 2023 54% — 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
60% of THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER DETROIT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
97% of THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER 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. $50k 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.
Against its field
THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER DETROIT's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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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
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER DETROIT?
- THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $119,836 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ($25,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER DETROIT have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $119,836 in grants to THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER DETROIT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER DETROIT?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ALLIANCE FOR A SAFER GREATER 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.
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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