Invest Detroit Foundation
Detroit, MI · EIN 27-1927369. Reported 60 grants totalling $14.7M to 42 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Invest Detroit Foundation, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 65% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 29% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $11,291 and $150,000; the smallest was $5,189 and the largest $3,078,250. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Detroit | Detroit, MI | $9,573,292 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Detroit Land Bank Authority | Detroit, MI | $2,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Islamic Center of Detroit Inc | Detroit, MI | $400,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Life Remodeled-a Nonprofit Corporation | Detroit, MI | $353,300 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Detriot Economic Growth Association | Detroit, MI | $240,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Detroit Blight Busters Inc | Detroit, MI | $212,850 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| LIVE6 Alliance | Detroit, MI | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Better Block Foundation | Dallas, TX | $164,400 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Space Lab Development Inc | Detroit, MI | $161,655 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| E Warren Development Corporation | Detroit, MI | $138,277 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance Inc | Detroit, MI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Osborn Neighborhood Alliance | Detroit, MI | $91,316 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Detroit Developer Roundtable | Detroit, MI | $83,650 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Detroit Cdfi Coalition | Detroit, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coe Vandyke 2 LLC | Detroit, MI | $37,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Woodborn Partners - Bagley 16TH | Detroit, MI | $33,862 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Southwest Detroit Business Association Inc | Detroit, MI | $31,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation | Detroit, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Metro Solutions Inc | Southfield, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Michigan Cdfi Coalition | Lansing, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Nnamdi Center for Contemporary Art | Detroit, MI | $19,750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of the Alger Theater | Grosse Pt Frm, MI | $18,988 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Empowerment Plan | Detroit, MI | $15,840 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| P&a Development Group | Troy, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sadza Space | Detroit, MI | $14,960 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Real Estate Interests LLC | Detroit, MI | $14,202 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| 16703 Warren Bd LLC | Detroit, MI | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Clutch Consulting LLC | Detroit, MI | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pal Properties LLC | Detroit, MI | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Baobab Fare | Grosse Pointe Park, MI | $11,937 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ultreia LLC | Ann Arbor, MI | $11,291 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tabor Way LLC Dba Terri's Cakes Detroit | Grosse Pointe Farms, MI | $11,249 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Clark Park Coalition | Detroit, MI | $10,267 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| East Jefferson Development Corporation | Detroit, MI | $10,151 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Invest Detroit Foundation | Detroit, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sunbridge International Collaborative Inc | Southfield, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Speramus Partners LLC | Detroit, MI | $7,822 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| 7326 West Mcnichols LLC | Detroit, MI | $6,550 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Airspace Link Inc | Detroit, MI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Detroit Pizza Bar LLC | Detroit, MI | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Good Vibes Lounge Express Inc | Detroit, MI | $5,189 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mac Galleries | Detroit, MI | $5,189 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
10 of 42 (24%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Detroit Land Bank Authority
PROGRAMMATIC GRANT - REHABBED AND READY - City of Detroit
PROGRAMMATIC GRANT - BRIDGING NEIGHBORHOODS - Detroit Economic Growth Association
DEGA 2021 ROOSEVELT PARK FORD CB PASSTHRU GRANT - LIVE6 Alliance
SNF PROGRAMMATIC GRANT - MAIN STREET MCNICHOLS GRANT - Islamic Center of Detroit Inc
PROGRAMMATIC GRANT - W WARREN FACADE IMPROVEMENT - Detroit Blight Busters Inc
SNF PROGRAMMATIC GRANT - OLD REDFORD FAADE PROGRAM
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 42 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 21 | $8,408,404 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 12 | $4,542,500 | $125,000 |
| 2023 | 14 | $1,140,329 | $24,550 |
| 2024 | 13 | $602,254 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Michigan. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Michigan.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Invest Detroit Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 7 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 6 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 600 Renaissance Center 1710, Detroit, MI, 48243.
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