Wayne State University Research and
Detroit, MI · EIN 41-2061387. Reported 140 grants totalling $4,618,118 to 125 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 Wayne State University Research and, 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. 125 distinct organizations, with 6% 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 much its list changes. 12% 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 $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,900 and $35,000; the smallest was $5,030 and the largest $265,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brilliant Detroit | Detroit, MI | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Freedom House Detroit | Detroit, MI | $185,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Indian Health and Family Services of Southeastern Mi Inc | Detroit, MI | $170,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| A Girl Like Me Inc | Detroit, MI | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bailey Park Project | Detroit, MI | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bulk Space | Detroit, MI | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Class Act Detroit | Detroit, MI | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Detroit Horse Power | Detroit, MI | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Detroit Sound Conservancy | Detroit, MI | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Heritage Works | Detroit, MI | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jefferson Chalmers Farmers Market | Detroit, MI | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice | Detroit, MI | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Garage Cultural Inc | Detroit, MI | $115,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The@konnection | Detroit, MI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Temate Institute for Black Dance and Culture LLC | Detroit, MI | $90,450 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Soulardarity | Highland Park, MI | $72,742 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Journi | Detroit, MI | $67,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Better Men Outreach Program | Detroit, MI | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Class Act Detroit | Detroit, MI | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Journey to Healing | Highland Park, MI | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Women of Banglatown | Detroit, MI | $62,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Urban Neighborhood Initiatives Inc | Detroit, MI | $61,531 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Woodbridge Neighborhood Development Corporation | Detroit, MI | $55,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Allied Media Projects Inc | Detroit, MI | $47,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Detroit Hives Inc | Detroit, MI | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Detroit Police Athletic League Incorporated | Detroit, MI | $44,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| National Veteran Business Development Council | Troy, MI | $42,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Atlantic Impact | Detroit, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central United Methodist Church of Detroit Community Development Corp | Detroit, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chandler Park Conservancy | Detroit, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Communities First Inc | Flint, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Eastern Market Corporatioin | Detroit, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of Parkside | Detroit, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of Rouge Park | Detroit, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hai Foundation | Detroit, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hannan | Detroit, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development Inc | Detroit, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Living Arts | Detroit, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Matrix Theatre Company Inc | Detroit, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| O Hair Park Community Association | Detroit, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| People for Palmer Park | Detroit, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regent Park Community | Detroit, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Veterans Village of Highland Park Inc | Detroit, MI | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Detroit Community Solutions Incorporated | Grosse Pointe, MI | $31,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Detroit Achievement Academy Foundation | Detroit, MI | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Evenscore Inc | Detroit, MI | $30,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation | Detroit, MI | $26,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Arts & Scraps | Detroit, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Detroit Area Pre College Engineering Program Inc | Detroit, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program | Detroit, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| ELEVEN24 Inc | Detroit, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Embassy Community Development Corporation | Detroit, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Assistance for Renaissance Men | Detroit, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Foodcorps | Portland, OR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Highland Park Urban Development Initiative | Highland Park, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Life Remodeled-a Nonprofit Corporation | Detroit, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Audubon Society Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Peoples Water Board Coalition | Detroit, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Planet Ant Theatre Inc | Hamtramck, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Read Art Loud Inc | Flint, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Righteous Sons | Detroit, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| S a Y Detroit | Southfield, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southwest Economic Solutions | Detroit, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Teachers Supporting Teachers Everywhere Inc | Detroit, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Womens Innovative Social Enterprise Partnership | Detroit, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nothing to Wear LLC | Highland Park, MI | $18,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Urban Electronics Inc | Detroit, MI | $18,300 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Leondan LLC (farai Gundan) | Farmington Hills, MI | $15,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lonna Hardin | Detroit, MI | $15,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Art Clvb Inc | Detroit, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Detroit Zoological Society | Royal Oak, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Justair Solutions Inc | Detroit, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Operation Refuge | Inkster, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trip Slip LLC | Detroit, MI | $14,350 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chaldean Community Foundation | Sterling Hts, MI | $12,509 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ecology Center Inc | Ann Arbor, MI | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eros Meets Agape | Southfield, MI | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hooprun | Detroit, MI | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Michigan Interfaith Power & Light Inc | Detroit, MI | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nextiles | Detroit, MI | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Berewornsamantha Cerwin | Detroit, MI | $11,594 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Livaq | Detroit, MI | $10,055 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arts League of Michigan Inc | Detroit, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Concrete Oasis | Detroit, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Green Living Science | Detroit, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Knome LLC | Detroit, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Next Chapter Books LLC | Detroit, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Harry Rich Clothier LLC | Detroit, MI | $9,978 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kinfolk Applications | Detroit, MI | $9,878 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Shay B Beautiful LLC | Detroit, MI | $9,725 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| V Agency LLC | Detroit, MI | $9,725 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sepia Coffee Project | Highland Park, MI | $9,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Detroit Future City | Detroit, MI | $9,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cocoon Technologies Inc | Detroit, MI | $8,900 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Total Analysis LLC | Detroit, MI | $8,843 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Travelite | Detroit, MI | $8,812 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Roller Skate Detroit | Detroit, MI | $8,733 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Supernatural Hair Care LLC | Detroit, MI | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Burl Tech LLC | Southgate, MI | $7,878 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Magsorbeo Biomedical Corp | Detroit, MI | $7,676 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Detroit Ai Ventures LLC | Farmington Hills, MI | $7,562 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Glory Preservation LLC | Detroit, MI | $7,562 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ecosphere Organics LLC | Detroit, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Elroi LLC | Durham, NC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grounded Rv's Inc-1 | Detroit, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Inpathy Corp | Detroit, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Joystick Inc | Dover, DE | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kozen Inc | Detroit, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pretty Write LLC | Harper Woods, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rizzarr Inc | Detroit, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ruth Ellis Center Inc | Highland Park, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Total Re-Entry Solutions Inc | Detroit, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ubook Freight LLC | Detroit, MI | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ideavor Inc Dba Guilde | Detroit, MI | $7,400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beauty Gogo Inc | Redford Charter Townsh, MI | $7,122 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cashpool Inc | Detroit, MI | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cashpool Inc | Detroit, MI | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Motmot Inc | Detroit, MI | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Optimizeev | Detroit, MI | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rep Reserve | Redford Township, MI | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charged Up to Go | Southfiled, MI | $6,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| On Arrival LLC | Dundee, MI | $6,013 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Give Merit Inc | Detroit, MI | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| I'm Lit Learning | Detroit, MI | $5,050 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Culturesource | Detroit, MI | $5,030 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
12 of 125 (10%) 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.
- American Indian Health & Family Services of Southeast Michigan (aihfs)
ACTIVATE FUND NONPROFIT FUNDAMENTALS GRANTEE - Berewornsamantha Cerwin
SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT GRANT - Detroit Hives Inc
ACTIVATE FUND COLLABORATION PILOT GRANT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 63 of 125 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 | 16 | $251,239 | $13,754 |
| 2022 | 35 | $1,000,633 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 56 | $2,066,246 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 33 | $1,300,000 | $8,000 |
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 $20,000 -- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Wayne State University Research and'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 10 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 23 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: 440 Burroughs, Detroit, MI, 48202.
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