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DETROIT LIONS CHARITIES

EIN 38-2945709 ALLEN PARK, MI

Revenue 2024
$2,685,469
Expenses 2024
$2,075,942

Program services were 91.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T50Z
Classification
1000
Street
222 REPUBLIC DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

DETROIT LIONS CHARITIES (THE "CHARITIES") IS THE NONPROFIT COMMUNITY FUNDING EXTENSION OF DETROIT LIONS, INC. DURING FISCAL YEAR 2020, THE CHARITIES WAS GRANTED A D/B/A FOR CHARITIES: DETROIT LIONS FOUNDATION. THE CHARITIES INVEST IN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS TO EMPOWER YOUTH FOR LASTING, TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE IN OUR HOMETOWN OF DETROIT. THE CHARITIES SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS THAT PURSUE INTEGRATED APPROACHES TO COMMUNITY WELL-BEING, EDUCATION, CANCER, AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

DETROIT LIONS CHARITIES (THE "CHARITIES") IS THE NONPROFIT COMMUNITY FUNDING EXTENSION OF DETROIT LIONS, INC. THE CHARITIES INVEST IN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS TO EMPOWER YOUTH FOR LASTING, TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE IN OUR HOMETOWN OF DETROIT. THE CHARITIES SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS THAT PURSUE INTEGRATED APPROACHES TO COMMUNITY WELL-BEING, EDUCATION, CANCER, AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION.

  • SUPPORTING THE METROPOLITAN DETROIT COMMUNITY THROUGH GRANTS TO LOCAL CHARITIES FOCUSING ON THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELL-BEING AND OTHER WELLNESS INITIATIVES.

    Expenses $740,192 · Grants $740,192

  • SUPPORTING DETROIT AREA YOUTH PROGRAMS THROUGH EXERCISE, HEALTHY EATING AND TRANSPORTATION TO ACTIVITY BASED EVENTS. GRANTS ARE MADE TO ORGANIZATIONS THAT EMPOWER YOUTH FOR LASTING, TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE IN OUR HOMETOWN OF DETROIT.

    Expenses $511,140 · Grants $511,140

  • SUPPORT OF NATIONWIDE PROGRAMS PROMOTING MENTAL, PHYSICAL WELL-BEING INITIATIVES, AND PROGRAMS THAT BENEFIT CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN MICHIGAN BY SPONSORING THE STATE OF MICHIGAN HIGH SCHOOL COACH OF THE WEEK AND COACH OF THE YEAR PROGRAM.

    Expenses $11,000 · Grants $11,000

  • PROGRAMS THAT BENEFIT CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN MICHIGAN BY PROVIDING SUPPORT TO SCHOOLS IN NEED WITH EQUIPMENT, TECHNOLOGY, APPAREL AND/OR GRANT FUNDING THROUGH THE TOUCHDOWN IN YOUR TOWN PROGRAM.

    Expenses $635,727 · Grants $245,014

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Martha F Ford

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rodney P Wood

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kelly Kozole

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Allison Maki

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Elizabeth Kontulis

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Martha P Morse

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sheila F Hamp

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • William C Ford Jr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jay B Colvin

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,685,469
    Expenses
    $2,075,942
    Contributions
    $1,600,346
    Grants paid
    $1,507,346
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,840,600
    Expenses
    $2,172,393
    Contributions
    $1,811,447
    Grants paid
    $1,698,064
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,073,701
    Expenses
    $1,969,126
    Contributions
    $1,539,149
    Grants paid
    $1,790,219

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,820,325
    Expenses
    $1,810,558
    Assets (EOY)
    $661,259

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,884,442
    Expenses
    $2,225,723
    Assets (EOY)
    $597,744

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,724,891
    Expenses
    $2,047,763
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,198,820

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,691,190
    Expenses
    $1,991,382
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,187,586

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,178,690
    Expenses
    $2,155,721
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,544,462

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,060,489
    Expenses
    $916,807
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,497,059

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,083,633
    Expenses
    $1,122,231
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,270,231

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $634,145
    Expenses
    $605,738
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,403,357

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • DETROIT LIONS INC

    S · SPORTS TEAM · MI

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.