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Colucci Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$193kCommunity Improvement$73kFood & Nutrition$43kEnvironment$36kEmployment$31kHuman Services$24kArts & Culture$15kEducation$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$588k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
CITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION FUND$10,000
GLEANERS FOOD BANK$10,000
GLOBAL DETROIT$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LAUGHING BEAR BAKERY: $23k → 21%LAUGHING BEAR BAKERY: $5k → 21%LAUGHING BEAR BAKERY: $3k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
OH
CA
CO
MO
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$341k · 9 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +133% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
11

Total granted

$341k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+133%
+30%

Still filing today

44%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GLOBAL DETROIT
    8× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +138%
  • TM
    THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +133%
  • SD
    SOUTHWEST DETROIT IMMIGRANT CTR
    5× · 2019–2023 · $55k

Funded once

  • PA
    PEN AMERICAN CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +30%
  • T
    TRUTHOUTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +161%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Detroit Food Policy Council

The organization was founded by a group of concerned citizens, working in cooperation with the detroit city council, to shape food policy and to work for a more localized, more just, and environmentally friendly food system. the…

Food & Nutrition
2
Keep Growing Detroit

Keep growing detroit exists to promote a food sovereign city where the majority of fruits and vegetables detroiters consume are grown by residents within the city's limits.

Community Improvement
3
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
4
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
5
Greater Chicago Food Depository

The greater chicago food depository is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county. our mission - is to end hunger. we believe food is a basic human right. to achieve our mission, we work in partnership with a network of community-based…

Food & Nutrition
6
Wedontwaste Inc

We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.

Food & Nutrition
7
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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8
Zero Foodprint

Zero foodprint is mobilizing the food world around agricultural climate solutions. our work aims to create a circular economy that incentivizes practices that actively draw down carbon dioxide and offer our best hope of addressing the…

Food & Nutrition
9
Greater Lansing Food Bank

Partner to alleviate hunger one meal at a time, to create a future where everyone has access to nourishing food.

Food & Nutrition
10
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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11
Legal Aid of Western Ohio Inc

Legal aid of western ohio, inc. (lawo) is a non-profit law firm that champions equity and justice through client-centered community collaboration and transformative legal advocacy.

Crime & Legal
12
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forgotten Harvest Inc; the most unlike its peers is Truthout. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHWEST DETROIT IMMIGRANT CTR: $55,000 · OtherSOUTHWEST DETROIT IMMIGRANT CTRIndividual grant recipient: $32,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION FUND: $30,000 · OtherCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION FUNDCAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHEN: $22,500 · OtherCAPUCHIN SOUP KITCHENIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYWCA KALAMAZOO: $13,000 · OtherYWCA KALAMAZOOIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · Other+3 more: $13,000 · Other+3 moreGLOBAL DETROIT: $72,500 · Community ImprovementGLOBAL DETROITTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $55,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INCLAUGHING BEAR BAKERY: $30,500 · Human ServicesLAUGHING …GIVEDIRECTLY INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIREC…PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $30,000 · Crime & LegalGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTRUTHOUT: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTREES WATER AND PEOPLE: $3,000 · EnvironmentTHE GREENING OF DETROIT: $2,500 · EnvironmentCLARK COUNTY LITERACY COALITION: $5,000 · Education
Other$188,500Community Improvement$127,500Human Services$33,500Crime & Legal$30,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Arts & Culture$15,000Environment$5,500Education$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGLOBAL DETROIT: $72,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLAUGHING BEAR BAKERY: $30,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUTHOUT: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLARK COUNTY LITERACY COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREES WATER AND PEOPLE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREENING OF DETROIT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds GLOBAL DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds LAUGHING BEAR BAKERY ↗
  • Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUTHOUT ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds CLARK COUNTY LITERACY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
  • Who funds TREES WATER AND PEOPLE ↗
  • Who funds THE GREENING OF DETROIT ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Colucci Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colucci Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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