Community Development Advocates of
Detroit, MI · EIN 38-3465670. Reported 24 grants totalling $1,337,671 to 24 organizations across tax years 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 Community Development Advocates of, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 24 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $48,732. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $83,400; the smallest was $12,900 and the largest $135,991. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genesis Harbor of Opportunities Promoting Excellent | Detroit, MI | $135,991 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Warren-Conner Development Coalition Inc | Detroit, MI | $118,362 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Urban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc | Detroit, MI | $117,325 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Joy-Southfield Community Development Corporation | Detroit, MI | $104,625 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation | Detroit, MI | $85,489 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bridging Communities Inc | Detroit, MI | $83,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| U Snap Bac Inc | Detroit, MI | $78,725 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Congress of Communities | Detroit, MI | $74,225 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Osborn Neighborhood Alliance | Detroit, MI | $73,851 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance Inc | Detroit, MI | $53,550 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sinai Grace Cdc | Detroit, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southwest Detroit Business Association Inc | Detroit, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Detroit Hispanic Develop Corp | Detroit, MI | $47,464 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Detroit Christian Community Development Corporation | Detroit, MI | $43,783 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| E Warren Development Corporation | Detroit, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Equity Alliance of Michigan | Detroit, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mack Avenue Community Church Community Development Corporation | Detroit, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North End Woodward Community Coalition | Detroit, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Villages Community Development Corporation | Detroit, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Woodbridge Neighborhood Development Corporation | Detroit, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance | Detroit, MI | $22,181 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope Village Revitalization | Detroit, MI | $20,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lifebuilders | Detroit, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boulevard Harambee-Building Up Leaders for Village Development | Detroit, MI | $12,900 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 21 of 24 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $48,732 -- 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 Community Development Advocates of's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 440 Burroughs St Ste 201, Detroit, MI, 48201.
EIN 38-3465670 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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